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Page v
... wish with all my heart that the last reason was as good as the first ; but I fear that the task of drawing his character is above my capacity , and that my relationship and the early re- collections which are its consequence are in my ...
... wish with all my heart that the last reason was as good as the first ; but I fear that the task of drawing his character is above my capacity , and that my relationship and the early re- collections which are its consequence are in my ...
Page vi
... wish to form of the experienced and sagacious statesman in the full ma- turity of his powers is continually blurred by my re- membrance of the shattered invalid . There was , of course , in those days very little left of that exuberant ...
... wish to form of the experienced and sagacious statesman in the full ma- turity of his powers is continually blurred by my re- membrance of the shattered invalid . There was , of course , in those days very little left of that exuberant ...
Page ix
... wishes to be impartial and discriminating , and I think he has suc- ceeded as far as success was possible . It is after reading this that I can most nearly picture Lord Melbourne to myself . Where he a little fails , in my opinion , is ...
... wishes to be impartial and discriminating , and I think he has suc- ceeded as far as success was possible . It is after reading this that I can most nearly picture Lord Melbourne to myself . Where he a little fails , in my opinion , is ...
Page xii
... wish I was as cock- sure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything ' ; but we see now that he had had his own period of cock - sureness like most other people . They show , however , an active and inquiring mind , and a keen interest ...
... wish I was as cock- sure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything ' ; but we see now that he had had his own period of cock - sureness like most other people . They show , however , an active and inquiring mind , and a keen interest ...
Page 11
... wishes . This is a terrible crisis . I tremble for France , even though her whole military force is at the disposal of Bonaparte . As to Lord Grenville's letter , it has been admirably exposed in most of the opposition prints ...
... wishes . This is a terrible crisis . I tremble for France , even though her whole military force is at the disposal of Bonaparte . As to Lord Grenville's letter , it has been admirably exposed in most of the opposition prints ...
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Page 79 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.