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Page v
... write a Preface to this volume , partly in order to make known that the letters con- tained in it have been selected with my sanction and approval from those in my possession , and partly in hopes that my relationship to Lord Melbourne ...
... write a Preface to this volume , partly in order to make known that the letters con- tained in it have been selected with my sanction and approval from those in my possession , and partly in hopes that my relationship to Lord Melbourne ...
Page ix
... writing . Every impression of the moment , from the highest admiration down to a feeling bordering upon contempt , is recorded and left unaltered , however inconsistent with previous or subsequent passages in the same book . In Part II ...
... writing . Every impression of the moment , from the highest admiration down to a feeling bordering upon contempt , is recorded and left unaltered , however inconsistent with previous or subsequent passages in the same book . In Part II ...
Page xii
... writer . There is a self - sufficiency and priggishness in the youth who wrote them difficult to reconcile with the man as he presented himself in after life . It was Lord Melbourne , not Sydney Smith , who said , ' I wish I was as cock ...
... writer . There is a self - sufficiency and priggishness in the youth who wrote them difficult to reconcile with the man as he presented himself in after life . It was Lord Melbourne , not Sydney Smith , who said , ' I wish I was as cock ...
Page xiii
... writer's turn of mind from other sources will , I think , discern in them a tendency kept under restraint , but constantly escaping from it , to connect the matter in question with some general principle . I fancy I can see signs here ...
... writer's turn of mind from other sources will , I think , discern in them a tendency kept under restraint , but constantly escaping from it , to connect the matter in question with some general principle . I fancy I can see signs here ...
Page 3
... write with most pleasure to her , and her answers are so sen- sible , so tactique . I never met with half her talent . ' Her son's verdict was , perhaps , more partial , but it was the same : ' Ah , my mother was a most remarkable woman ...
... write with most pleasure to her , and her answers are so sen- sible , so tactique . I never met with half her talent . ' Her son's verdict was , perhaps , more partial , but it was the same : ' Ah , my mother was a most remarkable woman ...
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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.