Memoirs of George Selwyn and His Contemporaries, Volume 3L. C. Page, 1902 - Great Britain |
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... DEAR GEORGE : - I thought that I should have heard from you before this . I set out on Friday or Saturday for ... Sir W. Boothby , Lord George Cavendish , and myself . Bunbury gives a dinner to - day to the Duchess of Devonshire and 36 ...
... DEAR GEORGE : - I thought that I should have heard from you before this . I set out on Friday or Saturday for ... Sir W. Boothby , Lord George Cavendish , and myself . Bunbury gives a dinner to - day to the Duchess of Devonshire and 36 ...
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... DEAR GEORGE : -I love to please you when it is in my power , and how can I please you more than by commending Castle ... Sir Thomas Robinson and he stood spitting and swearing at one another ; nay , I had heard of glori- ous views , and ...
... DEAR GEORGE : -I love to please you when it is in my power , and how can I please you more than by commending Castle ... Sir Thomas Robinson and he stood spitting and swearing at one another ; nay , I had heard of glori- ous views , and ...
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... DEAR SIR : -I am so much enjoined silence , that it is the more necessary for me to speak to you . I am utterly incapable of writing to Paris : I have nobody to write for me , and am not allowed to dictate above two or three lines . It ...
... DEAR SIR : -I am so much enjoined silence , that it is the more necessary for me to speak to you . I am utterly incapable of writing to Paris : I have nobody to write for me , and am not allowed to dictate above two or three lines . It ...
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... dear George , Yours , etc. LORD MACARTNEY . SIR GEORGE , afterward Lord Macartney , now principally known from his famous mission to China in 1792 , was born in 1737. In 1764 he was appointed envoy extraordinary to Russia , and ...
... dear George , Yours , etc. LORD MACARTNEY . SIR GEORGE , afterward Lord Macartney , now principally known from his famous mission to China in 1792 , was born in 1737. In 1764 he was appointed envoy extraordinary to Russia , and ...
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... Sir George Macartney to George Selwyn . BATH , Tuesday morning . DEAR MR . SELWYN : - I arrived here yesterday to dinner , where I had the pleasure of finding both Lord and Lady Holland , though by no means so well as I wished , yet not ...
... Sir George Macartney to George Selwyn . BATH , Tuesday morning . DEAR MR . SELWYN : - I arrived here yesterday to dinner , where I had the pleasure of finding both Lord and Lady Holland , though by no means so well as I wished , yet not ...
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Page 215 - For there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Page 194 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind...
Page 91 - On the evening, when the symptoms of death came on, he said, ' I shall die ; but it will not be your fault.' When lord and lady Valentia came to see his lordship, he gave them his solemn benediction, and said, ' Be good, be virtuous, my lord ; you must come to this.
Page 363 - Men some to business, some to pleasure take ; But every woman is at heart a rake : Men some to quiet, some to public strife ; But every lady would be queen for life.
Page 269 - ... 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. Any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort, and if we must fall, let us fall like men.
Page 258 - Alas! Mrs. Miller is returned a beauty, a genius, a Sappho, a tenth Muse, as romantic as Mademoiselle Scuderi, and as sophisticated as Mrs. Vesey. The Captain's fingers are loaded with cameos, his tongue runs over with virtu, and that both may contribute to the improvement of their own country, they have introduced bouts-rimes as a new discovery.
Page 62 - Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure ; and his sentences are unmeasured.
Page 90 - It is a folly, a keeping me in misery, now to attempt to prolong life ;' yet he was easily persuaded for the satisfaction of others to do or take anything thought proper for him.
Page 197 - Upon the whole the piece was not very full of events. The doctor, to all appearance, was rendered perfectly stupid from despair. His hat was flapped all round, and pulled over his eyes, which were never directed to any object around, nor even raised, except now and then lifted up in the course of his prayers. He came in a coach, and a very heavy shower of rain fell just upon his entering the cart, and another just at his putting on his nightcap.
Page 91 - Thus he continued giving his dying benedictions to all around him. On Monday morning a lucid interval gave some small hopes, but these vanished in the evening, and he continued dying, but with very little uneasiness, till Tuesday morning, August 22, when, between seven and eight o'clock, he expired, almost without a groan.