ReminiscencesJ. Sharpe, 1819 - 166 pages |
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... answer that I shall have patience to continue , but my memory is still so fresh , or rather so retentive of trifles which first made impression on it , that it is very possible my life , ( turned of seventy - one ) may be exhausted ...
... answer that I shall have patience to continue , but my memory is still so fresh , or rather so retentive of trifles which first made impression on it , that it is very possible my life , ( turned of seventy - one ) may be exhausted ...
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... answered a fellow in the crowd , " and for all our chattels too . " I men- tion this , because , on the death of princess Amelia , the newspapers revived the story and told it of her , though I had heard it three - score years before of ...
... answered a fellow in the crowd , " and for all our chattels too . " I men- tion this , because , on the death of princess Amelia , the newspapers revived the story and told it of her , though I had heard it three - score years before of ...
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... answer was deci- sive and implied sir Robert's dismission . Spencer Compton was speaker of the house of com- mons , and treasurer , I think , at that time , to his royal highness , who by that first command implied his intention of ...
... answer was deci- sive and implied sir Robert's dismission . Spencer Compton was speaker of the house of com- mons , and treasurer , I think , at that time , to his royal highness , who by that first command implied his intention of ...
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... answered the Manchester , who was all spi- rit , justice , and honour , and could not suppress sudden truth . One of old Marlborough's capital mortifications sprung from a granddaughter . The most beautiful of her 68 REMINISCENCES .
... answered the Manchester , who was all spi- rit , justice , and honour , and could not suppress sudden truth . One of old Marlborough's capital mortifications sprung from a granddaughter . The most beautiful of her 68 REMINISCENCES .
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... answer was due to the unmerited attention which you have paid to my writings . I turn with more pleasure to speak on yours . Forgive me if I shall blame you , whether you either abandon your intention , or are too impatient to execute ...
... answer was due to the unmerited attention which you have paid to my writings . I turn with more pleasure to speak on yours . Forgive me if I shall blame you , whether you either abandon your intention , or are too impatient to execute ...
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Page 159 - You know, in England, we read their works, but seldom or never take any notice of authors. We think them sufficiently paid if their books sell, and, of course, leave them to their colleges and obscurity, by which means we are not troubled with their vanity and impertinence.
Page 16 - Dorothea*, only child of the duke of Zell; a match of convenience to reunite the dominions of the family. Though she was very handsome, the prince, who was extremely amorous, had several mistresses ; which provocation, and his absence in the army of the confederates, probably disposed the princess to indulge some degree of coquetry. At that moment arrived at Hanover the famous and beautiful count Konisraarkf, the charms of whose person ought not to have obliterated the memory of his vile assassination...
Page 153 - I guessed that your friends consulted your interest less than their own inclination to expose Rousseau; and I think their omission of what I said on that subject proves I was not mistaken in my guess. My letter hinted, too, my contempt of learned men and their miserable conduct Since I was to appear in print, I should not have been sorry that that opinion should have appeared at the same time. In truth, there is nothing I hold so cheap as the generality of learned men ; and I have often thought that...
Page 149 - I not only suppressed the letter while you stayed there, out of delicacy to you, but it was the reason why, out of delicacy to myself, I did not go to see him as you often proposed to me, thinking it wrong to go and make a cordial visit to a man, with a letter in my pocket to laugh at him.
Page 24 - I. when his son the Prince of Wales and the Princess had quitted St. James's on their quarrel with him, had kept back their three eldest daughters, who lived with him to his death, even after there had outwardly been a reconciliation between the King and Prince.
Page 71 - Lady Sundon had received a pair of diamond ear-rings as a bribe for procuring a considerable post in Queen Caroline's family for a certain peer ; ' and, decked with those jewels, paid a visit to the old Duchess ; who, as soon as she was gone, said, " What an impudent creature, to come hither with her bribe in her ear ! "
Page 69 - He had good sense, infinite generosity, and not more economy than was to be expected from a young man of warm passions and such vast expectations. He was modest and diffident too, but could not digest total dependence on a capricious and avaricious grandmother. His sister (Lady Bateman) had the intriguing spirit of her father and grandfather, Earls of Sunderland. She was connected with Henry Fox, the first Lord Holland, and both had great influence over the [second] Duke of Marlborough.
Page 42 - Twelfth-night at court, had won so large a sum of money, that he thought it imprudent to carry it home in the dark, and deposited it with the mistress. Thence the queen inferred great intimacy, and thenceforwards Lord Chesterfield could obtain no favour from court: and finding himself desperate, went into opposition.
Page 157 - ... believed the quintessence of truth ; that they always acted without prejudice and respect of persons. Indeed, we know that the ancient philosophers were a ridiculous composition of arrogance, disputation, and contradictions; that some of them acted against all ideas of decency; that others affected to doubt of their own senses; that some, for venting unintelligible nonsense, pretended to think themselves superior to kings; that they gave themselves airs of accounting for all that we do and do...
Page 27 - Wales was even left regent ; but never being trusted afterwards with that dignity on like occasions, it is probable that the son discovered too much fondness for acting the king, or that the father conceived a jealousy of his having done so. Sure it is, that on the king's return great divisions arose in the court ; and the Whigs were divided — some devoting themselves to the wearer of the crown, and others to the expectant.