Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, Prime Minister 1710-1714: A Study of Politics and Letters in the Age of AnneMethuen & Company, 1902 - 256 頁 |
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... agreeable broken country which lies on the Welsh border , between the Clun Hills and the larger valleys , and spreading pastures , which extend from Leominster to the Severn . Somewhat remote , it has many pleasant characteristics ...
... agreeable broken country which lies on the Welsh border , between the Clun Hills and the larger valleys , and spreading pastures , which extend from Leominster to the Severn . Somewhat remote , it has many pleasant characteristics ...
第 26 頁
... agreeable in his character , since there had grown up a close friendship between himself and Charles Montague.1 They were of the same 1 Charles Montague ( 1661-1715 ) , created Baron Halifax in 1700 , and raised to an earldom in 1714 ...
... agreeable in his character , since there had grown up a close friendship between himself and Charles Montague.1 They were of the same 1 Charles Montague ( 1661-1715 ) , created Baron Halifax in 1700 , and raised to an earldom in 1714 ...
第 71 頁
... agreeable to conscience , equity , and the good of my country , ay , and to these unhappy people's interest too , if they understood their interest , is at the same time agreeable to your Lordship , and that while I am rendering you ...
... agreeable to conscience , equity , and the good of my country , ay , and to these unhappy people's interest too , if they understood their interest , is at the same time agreeable to your Lordship , and that while I am rendering you ...
第 80 頁
... agreeable , and but due to what you could not but observe in me . I never had , nor ever can have , a thought of your being out of the Queen's service while I am in it ; but I am as sure I neither desire nor am able to continue in it ...
... agreeable , and but due to what you could not but observe in me . I never had , nor ever can have , a thought of your being out of the Queen's service while I am in it ; but I am as sure I neither desire nor am able to continue in it ...
第 96 頁
... agreeable medium of a young , pleasant , and straightforward lady - in - waiting , anxious for the happiness of her mistress , was a very different thing from the peevish complaints of Godolphin , the reluctant but masterful ...
... agreeable medium of a young , pleasant , and straightforward lady - in - waiting , anxious for the happiness of her mistress , was a very different thing from the peevish complaints of Godolphin , the reluctant but masterful ...
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¹ Harley action Administration affairs age of Anne agreeable Allies appointed Arbuthnot became Bill Bolingbroke Brampton Brampton Bryan career character Church collection Court death desire Dissenters Duke Earl of Oxford Edward Harley Elector England English favour Foe's France friendship Godolphin Government Halifax Hanoverian Harley and Bolingbroke Harley Papers Harley's policy Herefordshire Hist honour hope House of Commons House of Lords Humphrey Wanley impeachment influence interest Jacobite John Bay July King Lady leader letter London Longleat Longleat MSS Lord Treasurer Lordship MARLBOROUGH AND HARLEY Masham ment Ministry moderate National Portrait Gallery negotiations never Nonconformists opinion opponents opposed Parl Parliament parliamentary passed peace peerage peers political politician position Pretender Queen reason regarded remarkable Robert Harley scheme Scotland Scriblerus South Sea sovereign statesman success Swift tion Tory party Treaty Treaty of Utrecht union Utrecht Wanley Whigs writes wrote
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第 123 頁 - ... the governor and company of the Bank of England, or by the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for encouraging the fishery...
第 200 頁 - Scriblerus was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped into every art and science, but injudiciously in each.
第 60 頁 - A Review of the Affairs of France, and of all Europe, as influenced by that Nation...
第 97 頁 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners ; generous, and a despiser of money.
第 169 頁 - The wolf dwells with the lamb, and the leopard lies down with the kid...
第 144 頁 - I was resolved to stay till I could tell you the queen had got so far the better of the dragon as to take her power out of his hands. " He has been the most ungrateful man to her, and to all his best friends, that ever was born. " I cannot have so much time now to write all my mind, because my dear mistress is not well ; and I think I may lay her illness to the charge of the Treasurer, who, for three weeks together, was teasing and vexing her without intermission ! And she could not get rid of him...
第 194 頁 - John Gay. I'm no more to converse with the swains, But go where fine people resort : One can live without money on plains, But never without it at court. If, when with the swains I did gambol, I array'd me in silver and blue : When abroad, and in courts I shall ramble, Pray, my lord, how much money will do...
第 26 頁 - Let me conjure you to disappoint the only hopes of our enemies, by your unanimity : I have shown, and will always show, how desirous I am to be the common father of all my people ; do you, in like manner, lay aside parties and divisions ;. let there be no other distinction heard of among us for the future, but of those who are for the Protestant religion and the present establishment, and of those who mean a Popish prince and a French government.
第 199 頁 - The end of our Club is to advance conversation and friendship, and to reward deserving persons with our interest and recommendation. We take in none but men of wit or men of interest; and if we go on as we begin, no other Club in this town will be worth talking of.
第 189 頁 - He has the best skill in ancient hands and MSS. of any man not only of this, but, I believe, of any former age...