The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Band 4J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
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Seite 147 - ... pocketed a deduction of two and a half per cent, from the pay of the foreign troops maintained by England.
Seite 196 - I have insisted, and obtained, that the assiento, or contract for furnishing the Spanish West Indies with negroes, shall be made with us, for the term of thirty years, in the same manner as has been enjoyed by the French for ten years past.
Seite 30 - She had preserved a tolerable court reputation with respect to love and gallantry ; but three furies reigned in her breast — the most mortal enemies of all softer passions — which were, sordid avarice, disdainful pride, and ungovernable rage. By the last of these, often breaking out in sallies of the most unpardonable sort, she had long alienated her sovereign's mind, before it appeared to the...
Seite 30 - His wife, the duchess, may justly challenge her place in this list. It is to her the duke is chiefly indebted for his greatness and his fall ; for above twenty years she possessed, without a rival, the favours of the most indulgent mistress in the world, nor ever missed one single opportunity that fell in her way of improving it to her own advantage. She...
Seite 246 - Instead of gathering strength, either as a Ministry or as a party, we grew weaker every day. The peace had been judged, with reason, to be the only solid foundation whereupon we could erect a Tory system; and yet when it was made we found ourselves at a full stand. Nay, the very work which ought to have been the basis of our strength was in part demolished before our eyes, and we were stoned with the ruins of it.
Seite 53 - Eugene's character was so justly high, that all people for " some weeks pressed about the places where he was to be seen, " to look on him ; I had the honour to be admitted, at several " times, to much discourse with him. His character is so universally " known, that I will say nothing of him but from what appeared
Seite 285 - About this time happened the famous trial of Dr. Sacheverell, which arose from a foolish passionate pique of the earl of Godolphin, whom thi» divine was supposed, in a sermon, to have reflected on under the name of Volpone, as my lord Somers, a few months after, confessed to me ; and at the same time, that he had earnestly and in vain endeavoured to dissuade the earl from that attempt.
Seite 345 - ... through ignorance, refinement, or mistake : And I mention it to the honour of the Secretary Bolingbroke, as well as of the treasurer, that having myself, upon many occasions, joined with the former in quarrelling with the earl's conduct upon certain points, the secretary would, in a little time after, frankly own that he was altogether mistaken. Lastly, I cannot excuse the remissness of those, whose business it should have been as it certainly was their interest, to have interposed their good...
Seite 27 - And it is indeed true, that no man is more apt to take fire, upon the least appearance of provocation; which temper he strives to subdue, with the utmost violence upon himself: so that his breast has been seen to heave, and his eyes to sparkle with rage, in those very moments when his words, and the cadence of his voice, were in the humblest and softest manner...
Seite 309 - But he was fond of mixing pleasure and business, and of being esteemed excellent at both, upon which account he had a great respect for the characters of Alcibiades and Petronius, especially the latter, whom he would gladly be thought to resemble.