Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751 to 1806, when His Public Life in Europe was Closed by His Appointment to the Vice-royalty of India, Volume 3Longmans, Green and Company, 1874 - Great Britain |
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Page 133 - do they think those they employ and deal with are saints ? do they not think they will have their own ends, and be truer to themselves than to them ? Therefore, there is no better way to moderate suspicions than to account upon such suspicions as true, and yet to bridle them as false.
Page 378 - Lady Hamilton was in tears all yesterday ; could not eat, and hardly drink, and near swooning, and all at table. It is a strange picture. She tells me nothing can be more pure and ardent than this flame. He is in many points a really great man, in others a baby. His friendship and mine is little short of the other attachment,
Page 145 - is very ill with a sort of convulsive fit, and Nelson is staying there to nurse her ; he does not intend going home till he has escorted her back to Palermo. His zeal for the public service seems entirely lost in his love and vanity, and they all sit and flatter each other all day long.
Page 13 - It appears that they lived together two or three weeks at first, but not at all afterwards as man and wife. They went to Windsor two days after the marriage, and after a few days' residence there they went to Kempshot, where there was no woman but Lady Jersey, and the men very blackguard companions of the
Page 25 - There is one other point of excellence to which I must say a single word, because I am perhaps the man in the world who has had the best opportunity of being acquainted with it. The world knows that Lord Nelson can fight the battles of his country, but a constant and confidential correspondence with this great
Page 371 - Lady Hamilton has improved and added to the house and the place extremely well without his knowing she was about it. He found it all ready done. She is a clever being after all : the passion is as hot as ever.
Page 33 - and play, is remarkably good and governable. One day she had been a little naughty, however, and they were reprimanding her. Amongst the rest, Miss Garth said to her, "You have been so very naughty I don't know what we must do with you." The little girl answered, crying and quite penitently, " You must soot me,
Page 279 - Government is under the greatest uncertainty whether they shall be forced to some hostile measure or not. One of those in contemplation has been to send him to the Mediterranean, by way of watching the armament and being ready if wanted. He says that he is thought the fitter for that delicate service, as on
Page 144 - whom I knew in Italy, are here. Mr. Rushout is at last going home. He escaped from Naples at the same time as the King did in Nelson's ship, and remained six months at Palermo ; so I had a great deal of intelligence concerning the Hero and his Lady.
Page 261 - Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, « And coming events cast their shadows before.