Memoirs and Correspondence of George, Lord Lyttelton, from 1734 to 1773, Volumen 1J. Ridgway, 1845 - 816 páginas |
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66 My Lords administration Admiral affectionate answer attack authority Bill Britain brother Chancellor colonies Conway Court Crown danger dear Lord dear Lyttelton debate declared desire Duke of Bedford Duke of Grafton Duke of Newcastle England esteem Exchequer favour France French friends friendship George Grenville George the Third give Government Governor Grace Grenville Hagley happy History honour hope Horace Walpole House of Commons humble servant King of Prussia King's kingdom Legge liberty Lord Anson Lord Bute Lord Chatham Lord Hardwicke Lord Lyttelton Lord Mansfield Lord Rockingham Lord Temple Lordship Majesty Majesty's measure ment Ministers ministry Minorca motion nation never obliged occasion opinion opposition Parliament party Pelham persons Pitt Pitt's pleasure political present Prince Royal seems sent session shew ships Sir George Lyttelton speech spirit things thought tion Treasury treaty Walpole whole wish write wrote
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Página 716 - I have the honour to be with the greatest respect. My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient and most Humble Servant, HT CRAMAHE.
Página 775 - you shall be my confessor: when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christiau religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Página 629 - Denbigh and Pomfret) ; both the secretaries of state silent, and the lord chief justice, whom I myself brought into office, voting for me, yet speaking against me ; the ground I tread upon is so hollow, that I am afraid, not only of falling myself, but of involving my royal master in my ruin. It is time for me to retire!
Página 642 - In truth, sir, he was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm of every private society which he honoured with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of a more pointed and finished wit, and (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment.
Página 642 - Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of a more pointed and finished wit ; and (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment. If he had not so great a stock as some have had who flourished formerly, of knowledge long treasured up, he knew better by far than any man I ever was acquainted with, how to bring together, within a short time, all that was necessary to establish, to illustrate, and to decorate that side of the...
Página 697 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...
Página 739 - Power without right is the most odious and detestable object that can be offered to the human imagination. It is not only pernicious to those who are subject to it, but tends to its own destruction. It is what my noble friend [Lord Lyttleton] has truly described it, Res detestabilis et caduca.
Página 546 - Dialogues, he deemed a nugatory performance. ' That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him.
Página 425 - I desire that you will read it over and over again, with particular attention to the style, and to all those beauties of oratory with which it is adorned. Till I read that book, I confess I did not know all the extent and powers of the English language.
Página 439 - It behoves the piety , as well as the wisdom of parliament, to disappoint those endeavours. Sir , the very worst mischief that can be done to religion , is to pervert it to the purposes of faction. Heaven and Hell are not more distant than the benevolent spirit of the Gospel , and the malignant spirit of party.