| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 546 pages
...he still took leave of him in a manner, which showed how much he was affected. He embraced the earl with tenderness, and said, " God, who placed me here,...hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May he bless you." In one of lord Chesterfield's letters to a lady of rank at Paris, he says, " I frequently see our friend... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...influence. He had a very handsome person, with a most engaging address in his air and manners ; he bad all the dignity and good-breeding which a man of quality...!' Upon the whole of this extraordinary character, what can we say, but, alas.! poor human nature. Chcsterfield. CHARACTER OF SIR ROBKRT WALPOLE. I MUCH... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...last time, the day before these tortures began. Bolingbroke, when they parted, embraced his old friend with tenderness, and said " God, who placed me here,...hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May he bless you !" About a fortnight after he died, at his house at Batters«a, Nov. 15, 1751, nearly eighty years... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...last time, the day before these tortures began. Bolingbroke, when they parted, embraced his old friend with tenderness, and said " God, who placed me here,...hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May he bless you !" About a fortmght after he died, at his house at Battersea, Nov. 15, 1751, nearly eighty years old,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...parted, embraced his old friend with tenderness, and said " God, who placed me here, will do -.hat he pleases with me hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May he b,less you ! About a fortnight after he died, at his house at JBattersea, Nov. 15, 1751, nearly eighty years old,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...parted, embraced his old friend with tenderness, and said " God, who placed me here, will do \vhat he pleases with me hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May he bless you !'x About a fortnight after he died, at his house at Battersea, Nov. 15, 1751, nearly eighty years... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...a cancer in his face, which he endured with firmness. Л week before he died, I took my last leavo a hundred upon four of us. P. Henry. What ! a hundred,...dozen of them two hours together. I have escaped by lie bless you !" Upon the whole of this extraordinary character, what can we say, but, al;i- ! poor... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...he still took leave of him in a manner which showed how much he was affected. He embraced the earl with tenderness, and said, « God, who placed me here,...hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May he bless you. » — And in a letter from Chesterfield to a lady of rank at Paris, he says, « I frequently see our... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...he still took leave of him in a manner which showed how much he was affected. He embraced the earl d my — And in a letter from Chesterfield to a lady of rank at Paris, he says, " I frequently see our friend... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 pages
...he still took leave of him in a manner which shewed how much he was affected. He embraced the Earl with tenderness, and said, " God, who placed me here,...will do what he pleases with me hereafter, — and lie knows best what to do. May he bless you." And in a letter from Chesterfield to a lady of rank at... | |
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