The Windham Papers: The Life and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. William Windham, 1750-1810, a Member of Pitt's First Cabinet and the Ministry of "all the Talents", Including Hitherto Unpublished Letters from George III, the Dukes of York and Gloucester, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Canning ... Etc, Том 1Herbert Jenkins, 1913 |
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The Windham Papers: The Life and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon ..., Том 1 William Windham Полный просмотр - 1913 |
The Windham Papers: The Life and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon ..., Том 1 William Windham Полный просмотр - 1913 |
The Windham Papers: The Life and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon ..., Том 1 William Windham Полный просмотр - 1913 |
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Стр. xiv - Mr. Windham has been here to see me ; he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half, perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature ; and there Windham is, inter Stellas* Luna minores.
Стр. 129 - Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands on the one part, and France on the other; and the duty and interest of the United States require that they should, with sincerity and good faith, adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers...
Стр. 129 - I have therefore thought fit by these presents to declare the disposition of the United States to observe the conduct aforesaid towards those Powers respectively; and to exhort and warn the citizens of the United States carefully to avoid all acts and proceedings whatsoever, which may in any manner tend to contravene such disposition.
Стр. 103 - ... remedy, but proceeding on a general speculation of benefits to arise from this or that mode of constituting a Parliament, what is there that is to put a stop to it, till we run the full career of all that the speculators of the present day may wish to drive us to ? We must not shut our eyes to the fact, that there is at this time a spirit very generally diffused, as it has been very wickedly excited, of changing the present constitution of things without any distinct view of what is to be substituted...
Стр. 275 - Besides the impossibility of sacrificing any supporters of Government, or exposing them to the risk of a new system, I ought to add that the very idea of a new system (as far as I understand what is meant by that term), and especially one formed without previous communication or concert with the rest of the King's servants here, or with the friends of Government in Ireland, is in itself what I feel it utterly impossible to accede to...
Стр. 96 - Never was there, I suppose, a work so valuable in its kind, or that displayed powers of so extraordinary a nature. It is a work that may seem capable of overturning the National Assembly, and turning the stream of opinion throughout Europe. One would think, that the author of such a work, would be called to the government of his country, by the combined voice of every man in it.
Стр. 65 - He then proceeded to observe that I was entering upon a life which would lead me deeply into all the business of the world: that he did not condemn civil employment, but that it was a state of great danger; and that he had therefore one piece...
Стр. xi - Talk of taking Antwerp with thirty thousand men and twenty ships of the line by a coup de main! Good God, sir, you might as well talk of a coup de main in the • court of chancery ! " The wit lies in the hyperbole. Exaggeration is said by so good an authority as the late SS Cox to be the chief characteristic of American humor. It is illustrated by the patriotic geographer who said that America is " bounded on the north by the aurora borealis ; bounded on the east by the history...
Стр. 68 - ... he had taken even a small quantity of wine. I readily assented to any objections he might have to nourishment of that kind, and observing that milk was the only nourishment I intended, flattered myself that I had succeeded in my endeavours, when he recurred to his general refusal, and begged that there might be an end of it.
Стр. 287 - The day of his departure was one of general gloom: the shops were shut; no business of any kind was transacted; and the greater part of the citizens put on mourning, while some of the most respectable among them drew his coach down to the water-side.