The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... nature to take delight in strug- gling with opposition , and whose most agreeable hours are passed in storms of their own creating . The Subject of the present sketch was perhaps of all others the most indefatigable in raising himself ...
... nature to take delight in strug- gling with opposition , and whose most agreeable hours are passed in storms of their own creating . The Subject of the present sketch was perhaps of all others the most indefatigable in raising himself ...
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... nature a mind better pleased with the struggle than the victory . HENRY ST . JOHN , LORD VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE , Was born in the year 1672 , at Battersea in Surrey , at a seat that had been in the posses- sion of his ancestors for ages ...
... nature a mind better pleased with the struggle than the victory . HENRY ST . JOHN , LORD VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE , Was born in the year 1672 , at Battersea in Surrey , at a seat that had been in the posses- sion of his ancestors for ages ...
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... Nature seemed not less kind to him in her external embellishments , than in adorning his mind . With the graces of a handsome per- son , and a face in which dignity was happily blended with sweetness , he had a manner of address that ...
... Nature seemed not less kind to him in her external embellishments , than in adorning his mind . With the graces of a handsome per- son , and a face in which dignity was happily blended with sweetness , he had a manner of address that ...
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... nature it was expected , that art would soon give her finishing hand ; and that a youth begun in excellence would soon arrive at per- fection : but such is the perverseness of human nature , that an age , which should have been employed ...
... nature it was expected , that art would soon give her finishing hand ; and that a youth begun in excellence would soon arrive at per- fection : but such is the perverseness of human nature , that an age , which should have been employed ...
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... natural malevolence , or who expected to make their court to those in power by abusing him . Upon this sudden turn of fortune , when the seals were taken from him , he went into the country , and having received a message from court ...
... natural malevolence , or who expected to make their court to those in power by abusing him . Upon this sudden turn of fortune , when the seals were taken from him , he went into the country , and having received a message from court ...
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Page xxvi - I left the town so abruptly, that I had no time to take leave of you or any of my friends. You will excuse me, when you know that I had certain and repeated informations, from some who are in the secret of affairs, that a resolution was taken, by those who have power to execute it, to pursue me to the scaffold. My blood was to have been the cement of a new alliance, nor could my innocence be any security, after it had once been demanded from abroad, and resolved on at home, that it was necessary...
Page cxcii - 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.
Page lxxi - Here lies HENRY ST. JOHN, In the reign of Queen Anne Secretary of War, Secretary of State, And Viscount Bolingbroke : In the days of King George I. and King George II. Something more and better.
Page xlix - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
Page xlv - Pretender's hands; contenting himself with making the Duke understand, how little need there was to get rid of a man in this manner, who only wanted an opportunity to get rid of the Pretender and his cause.
Page ccvii - God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May he bless you.
Page lxviii - Bolingbroke," says Pope, in one of his letters, " is above trifling, when he writes of any thing in this world, he is more than mortal. If ever he trifles, it must be when he turns divine.
Page lxiv - The destruction of the minister was pursued only as a preliminary, but of essential and indisputable necessity, to that end: but when his destruction seemed to approach, the object of his succession interposed to the sight of many, and the reformation of the government was no longer their point of view. They had divided the skin, at least in their thoughts, before they had taken the beast.
Page 142 - ... happy till we can forget that we are miserable, and owe to the weakness of our faculties a tranquillity which ought to be the effect of their strength ? Far otherwise. Let us set all our past and present afflictions at once before our eyes. Let us resolve to overcome them, instead of flying from them, or wearing out the sense of them by long and ignominious patience. Instead of palliating remedies, let us use the incision-knife and the caustic, search the wound to the bottom, and work an immediate...
Page 43 - I saw at that time several lords concur to condemn in one general vote all that they had approved in a former parliament by many particular resolutions. Among several bloody resolutions proposed and agitated at this time, the...