Letters and Correspondance, Public and Private, of the Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke: During the Time He was Secretary of State to Queen Anne, 第 4 卷G. G. & J. Robinson, 1798 |
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第511页 - ... of her majefty's goodnefs to her people, in delivering them by a fafe, honourable, and advantageous peace with France and] Spain, &c.
第583页 - Again, he says, in a letter to Lord Strafford : " For my own part, I doubt not but I have been painted in fine colours to the king. I must trust to my conduct to clear me. I served the queen to the last gasp as faithfully, as disinterestedly, as zealously as if her life had been good for twenty years, and she had twenty children to succeed her. I do not repent doing so, nor envy those who did otherwise. On the same principle...
第323页 - Adieu, my dear Lord ; if at my return I may help you any way in your drudgery, the youngest clerk you have is not more at your command : and if at the old hour of midnight after your drudgery, a cold bladebone of mutton in Duke Street will go down sicut olim, it, with all that belongs to the master of the house (except Nanny) is entirely yours. Adieu. May God bless you, men respect you, and women love you.
第579页 - Mons. de Torcy has very severe, and I fear very exact accounts of us ; we are all frightened out of our wits, upon the Duke of Marlborough's going into England.
第272页 - Certain it is, the sweetness of his temper, the strength of his understanding, and the happiness of his address, will enable him better than any man I know to calm the minds of that distracted nation, who, from knowing no distinction but Protestant and Papist, are come to be more madly divided about Whig and Tory, High Church and Low, than even this society of lunatics to which you and I belong."3 Sinister reports, too, were abroad concerning Marlborough's cabals to be governor of the Spanish Netherlands....
第258页 - Refqiution was taken tq carry Things to Extremity, that is, not to treat with the Minifters of the moft Chriftian King, unlefs they gave an Anfwer in Writing, and Orders were accordingly fent by the States to their Plenipotentiaries. The Defign was laid upon this, to have broke off...
第563页 - I tell you, that, for several weeks before the session of parliament rose, there were new plots, day after day, concerting against me ; and that those, in the service of whom I have drudged these fifteen years, were the proposers of new confederacies, the cement of which was to be my ruin.
第184页 - Bolingbroke himself admits that " the treaties met with the coldest re" ception when they were laid before the Houses ; " and those who were frightened out of their " senses, lest they should not be made, affected " to appear very indifferent to them when they " were made."* On the 9th of June, the House resolved itself into committee on the Bill, and heard several merchants at their bar argue and protest against it. A debate then ensued, remarkable for a singular burst of party feeling. General...
第199页 - I am obliged to you very particularly for your care of my friend Prior: I cannot imagine how you came to know that snudging boy, for his mother is very homely. Bentley will always be an ill-bred pedant ; can the leopard change his skin ? I hope you may never have any thing more essential to trouble you, than the disappointment of the boy's going to Trinity.