Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan: With a Particular Account of His Family and Connexions, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1817 |
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... obtained considerable preferment in the national church , soon after the Reformation ; and in the reign of Charles the Second , Dr. William Sheridan held the united see of Kilmore and Ardagh , of which he was deprived at the Revolution ...
... obtained considerable preferment in the national church , soon after the Reformation ; and in the reign of Charles the Second , Dr. William Sheridan held the united see of Kilmore and Ardagh , of which he was deprived at the Revolution ...
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... obtained such a provision in the church as was necessary for the support of a family . His wife was Eliza- beth Macfadden , the only child of an Irish gentleman , of the pro- vince of Ulster . She was a woman rather plain in her person ...
... obtained such a provision in the church as was necessary for the support of a family . His wife was Eliza- beth Macfadden , the only child of an Irish gentleman , of the pro- vince of Ulster . She was a woman rather plain in her person ...
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... obtaining for him this appointment , he did not abate in his kindness , or relax in his efforts , to render him independent . Unfortunately , however , the malignant star which prevailed over the fate of Sheridan blasted every thing ...
... obtaining for him this appointment , he did not abate in his kindness , or relax in his efforts , to render him independent . Unfortunately , however , the malignant star which prevailed over the fate of Sheridan blasted every thing ...
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... obtain a hearing , nor was his discourse suffered to be examined , but all was taken upon trust , because he was known to be a Tory , and consequently was suspected to be a Jacobite . Swift , however , remained his friend in this ...
... obtain a hearing , nor was his discourse suffered to be examined , but all was taken upon trust , because he was known to be a Tory , and consequently was suspected to be a Jacobite . Swift , however , remained his friend in this ...
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... obtained over Swift , or rather so necessary was he to the enjoyment of the Dean , that the latter could not be easy in the separation , but soon after fol- lowed him to his new residence --- an instance of attachment which indicated ...
... obtained over Swift , or rather so necessary was he to the enjoyment of the Dean , that the latter could not be easy in the separation , but soon after fol- lowed him to his new residence --- an instance of attachment which indicated ...
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Page 146 - Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts; and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries. But above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not misspell and mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.
Page 265 - Mr. Fox said, all that he had ever heard— all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Page 324 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.
Page 92 - To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge : Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Page 323 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain in parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored. I impeach him in the name of...
Page 348 - I conjure you by your sacred names to depart for a moment from this place, though it be your peculiar residence, nor hear your names profaned by such a sacrilegious combination as that which I am now compelled to repeat — where all the fair forms of nature and art, truth and peace, policy and...
Page 349 - Of all species of rhetoric, of every kind of eloquence that has been witnessed or recorded, either in ancient or modern times; whatever the acuteness of the bar, the dignity of the senate, the solidity of the judgment-seat, and the sacred morality of the pulpit, have hitherto furnished, nothing has equalled what we have this day heard in Westminster Hall.
Page 244 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain . Others, on earth, o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. " Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care ; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Page 182 - Hare, after my uncle, Charles Townshend, the wittiest man he ever met with, but that Sheridan surpassed them both infinitely; and Sheridan told me next day that he was quite lost in admiration of Fox, and that it was a puzzle to him to say what he admired most, his commanding superiority of talent and universal knowledge, or his playful fancy, artless manners, and benevolence of heart, which showed itself in every word he uttered.
Page 86 - Ordain'd me in each several state My wayward lot has known, What taught me silently to bear, To curb the sigh, to check the tear, When sorrow weigh'd me down? 'Twas Patience — temperate goddess, stay...