 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...make your bread!" CHARACTER OF MR. PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM, GRATTAN. The secretary stood alone. Btodern degeneracy had not reached him. Original and unaccommodating,...thought royalty so impaired in his presence, that ho conspired to remove him, in order to be relieved fro'm his superiority. No state chicanery, no narrow... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...ostentation of liberty. CHARACTER OF LORD CHATHAM. The secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy liad not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, the...majesty, and one of his sovereigns thought royalty jo impaired in his presence, that he conspired to remove him, in order to be relieved from his superiority.... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 pages
...eloquently, that it ought not to be omitted in the mention of this mighty minister. " The secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original...the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed his majesty. One of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence, that he conspired to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...degeneracy had not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, tin- features of his character had tho of themselves the pains and trouble of thinking and examining for themselves. 2. The second royal tv MI impaired in his presence, that he conspired to remove him, in order to l>c follcv tl from... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...the object of undisputed applause and admiration. HUME. 4. CHARACTER OP MR PITT. THE secretary' stood alone\ Modern degeneracy' had not reached* him. Original'...hardihood of antiquity\ His august mind' overawed majesty itself \ No state chicanery', no narrow system of vicious polities*, no idle contest for ministerial... | |
 | Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - 1832 - 730 pages
...— I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch." VOL. I. F " The secretary stood alone — modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original...hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty ; one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence, that he conspired to remove him,... | |
 | Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de Mirabeau - 1832 - 520 pages
...;—I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch." VOL. I. F " The secretary stood alone — modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original...hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty; one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence, that he conspired to remove him,... | |
 | Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti comte de Mirabeau - 1832 - 504 pages
...driving them before me with this crutch." VOL. I. F " The secretary stood alone — modern degeneracyhad not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, the...hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty ; one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence, that he conspired to remove him,... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...— This only is the witchcraft I have used. CHARACTER OF THE EARL OF CHATHAM. THE Secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original...narrow system of vicious politics, no idle contest for ministerial victories, sunk him to the vulgar level of the great; but overbearing, persuasive, and... | |
 | 1836 - 740 pages
...that peculiar style of eloquence by which he was afterwards distinguished : — " The Secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original...antiquity; his august mind overawed majesty; and one of his sovereign s thought royalty so impaired in his presence, that he conspired to remove him, in order... | |
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The secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty, and one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his... 
