The Quarterly Review, Volume 138John Murray, 1875 - English literature |
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Page 31
' Graham's elevation is the most monstrous of all . He was once my friend , a college intimacy revived in the world , and which lasted six months , when , thinking he could do better , he cut me , as he had done others before . I am not ...
' Graham's elevation is the most monstrous of all . He was once my friend , a college intimacy revived in the world , and which lasted six months , when , thinking he could do better , he cut me , as he had done others before . I am not ...
Page 40
... once that Duncombe is the man who has driven him out , and that he has given the first blow to that secret influence which has only been obscurely hinted at before and never openly attacked . These are great and important matters , far ...
... once that Duncombe is the man who has driven him out , and that he has given the first blow to that secret influence which has only been obscurely hinted at before and never openly attacked . These are great and important matters , far ...
Page 41
... once said that the boldest course was the best , and he would go out . ' There was no such meeting . There was neither occasion nor time for it . The old laws of honour were then in full force , and Morgan O'Connell's letter left no ...
... once said that the boldest course was the best , and he would go out . ' There was no such meeting . There was neither occasion nor time for it . The old laws of honour were then in full force , and Morgan O'Connell's letter left no ...
Page 45
... once kept a fine animal of that breed . ' Universally known to this hour under that name , notoriously because , when tilburys were the fashion , he used to drive one with a poodle seated by his side . A different but erroneous solution ...
... once kept a fine animal of that breed . ' Universally known to this hour under that name , notoriously because , when tilburys were the fashion , he used to drive one with a poodle seated by his side . A different but erroneous solution ...
Page 48
... once to the Duke ( of Wellington ) when he had any important business to transact , and that he ( Arbuthnot ) might tell the Duke this , if he pleased , but no one else . ' This is a specimen of Greville's half - knowledge . Lord ...
... once to the Duke ( of Wellington ) when he had any important business to transact , and that he ( Arbuthnot ) might tell the Duke this , if he pleased , but no one else . ' This is a specimen of Greville's half - knowledge . Lord ...
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Page 170 - No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
Page 417 - I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages; to enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition ; a law under which no Englishman would wish to live an hour...
Page 9 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Page 16 - I should then have the satisfaction of leaving the royal authority to the personal exercise of that young lady (pointing to the Princess), the heiress presumptive of the crown, and not in the hands of a person now near me, who is surrounded by evil advisers, and who is herself incompetent to act with propriety in the station in which she would be placed.
Page 31 - I am sorry to hurt any man's feelings, and to brush away the magnificent fabric of levity and gaiety he has reared; but I accuse our minister of honesty and diligence ; I deny that he is careless or rash : he is nothing more than a man of good understanding, and good principle, disguised in the eternal and somewhat wearisome affectation of a political roue.
Page 244 - ... for money received by the defendant for the use of the plaintiff; and for money found to be due from the defendant to the plaintiff on accounts stated between them.
Page 128 - In 1841 the free-trade party would have agreed to a duty of 8s. a quarter on wheat, and after a lapse of years this duty might have been further reduced, and ultimately abolished. But the imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already sufficiently fruitful of animosity and discontent.
Page 16 - ... incompetent to act with propriety in the station in which She would be placed. I have no hesitation in saying that I have been insulted - grossly and continually insulted - by that person, but I am determined to endure no longer a course of behaviour so disrespectful to me. Amongst many other things I have particularly to complain of the manner in which that young Lady has been kept away from my Court; she has been repeatedly kept from my drawing-rooms, at which She ought always to have been...
Page 12 - They all have situations in the King's household, from which they receive their pay, while they continue in the service of the Conynghams. They dine every day while in London at St. James's, and when they give a dinner it is cooked at St. James's and brought up to Hamilton Place in hackney coaches and in machines made expressly for the purpose ; there is merely a fire lit in their kitchen for such things as must be heated on the spot.
Page 537 - It may easily be conceived, that the difference of temperature between the subterraneous and the external air attains it's maximum about sunrise, or at that moment which is at the same time farthest from the period of the maximum of the heat of the preceding day.