Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Band 91836 |
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... Wilkes , at whose instigation he wrote The Prophecy of Famine , ' a bitter and scurrilous satire directed against the Scottish nation . Of this poem , Wilkes declared before its appearance in January , 1763 , that he was sure it would ...
... Wilkes , at whose instigation he wrote The Prophecy of Famine , ' a bitter and scurrilous satire directed against the Scottish nation . Of this poem , Wilkes declared before its appearance in January , 1763 , that he was sure it would ...
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... Wilkes , then a voluntary exile in France . They met at Boulogne ; but Churchill , almost instantly on his arrival , was attacked by a miliary fever , which terminated his existence on the 4th of November , in the 34th year of his age ...
... Wilkes , then a voluntary exile in France . They met at Boulogne ; but Churchill , almost instantly on his arrival , was attacked by a miliary fever , which terminated his existence on the 4th of November , in the 34th year of his age ...
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... he dared not submit any literary composition to the public without the revision of a friend ; and his adversary Wilkes , speaking of the analysis of beauty , was enabled to say , " He somewhere mentions his 256 [ SEVENTH LITERARY SERIES .
... he dared not submit any literary composition to the public without the revision of a friend ; and his adversary Wilkes , speaking of the analysis of beauty , was enabled to say , " He somewhere mentions his 256 [ SEVENTH LITERARY SERIES .
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... Wilkes answered the satire in the North Britain . Hogarth caricatured Wilkes in return ; Churchill came forward to the assistance of the writer , and Hogarth stamped him with the die of ridicule , in the picture of a ' Russian Bear with ...
... Wilkes answered the satire in the North Britain . Hogarth caricatured Wilkes in return ; Churchill came forward to the assistance of the writer , and Hogarth stamped him with the die of ridicule , in the picture of a ' Russian Bear with ...
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... Wilkes to in- terpose his good offices . The admiral , however , continued inflexible ; and just as sentence was going to be pronounced against the printer , the doctor came into court , avowed himself the author of the strictures , and ...
... Wilkes to in- terpose his good offices . The admiral , however , continued inflexible ; and just as sentence was going to be pronounced against the printer , the doctor came into court , avowed himself the author of the strictures , and ...
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Seite 334 - ... commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom, but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my lords, any state is better than despair. Let us, at least, make one effort; and, if we must fall, let us fall like men!
Seite 351 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the Peers and the Crown to a tax, is only necessary to close with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Seite 372 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Seite 325 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
Seite 438 - I do not know how others feel; but if I had stood in that situation, I never would have exchanged it for all that kings in their profusion could bestow.
Seite 326 - To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Seite 329 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Seite 256 - Hogarth's necessity for the money. If, therefore, his Lordship does not send for it, in three days it will be disposed of, with the addition of a tail, and some other little appendages, to Mr. Hare, the famous wild-beast man : Mr. Hogarth having given that gentleman a conditional promise of it, for an exhibition-picture, on his Lordship's refusal.
Seite 328 - The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult.
Seite 325 - ... neither trite and vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the House just between wind and water ; and, not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious or more earnest than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required, to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it.