 I am afraid that we came to court in the same dispositions as all parties have done; that the principal spring of our actions was to have the government of the state in our hands; that our principal views were the conservation of this power, great employments...  Life of Viscount Bolingbroke - Pàgina 46per Arthur Hassall - 1889 - 237 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1876 - 818 pàgines
...the State in our hands ; our principal views were the conservation of this power, great employments to ourselves, and great opportunities of rewarding...that with these considerations of private and party interests there were others intermingled which had for theirobject the public good of the nation —... | |
 | William Russell - 1822 - 486 pàgines
...state in our hands ; that our principal views were the conservation of this power, great employments to ourselves, and great opportunities of rewarding those who had helped to raise us ; to break the body of the Whigs, to render their support (the Dutch and the other allies) useless... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1836 - 636 pàgines
...the state in our hands ; our principal views were the conservation of this power, great employments to ourselves, and great opportunities of rewarding...and of hurting those who stood in opposition to us. * * * * To improve the queen's favour, to break the body of the Whigs, to render their supports useless... | |
 | William Russell - 1839 - 620 pàgines
...state In our hands; that our principal views were the conservation of this power, great employments to ourselves, and great opportunities of rewarding those who had helped to raise us; to break the body of the whigs," adds he; "to render tbelr supports (the Dutch and the other allies)... | |
 | 1846 - 580 pàgines
...principal spring of our actions," says Bolingbroke, " was to have the government of the state in our hands. Our principal views were — the conservation of this...and of hurting those who stood in opposition to us." They called a House of Commons, frantic with High Churchism, which the blunder of the Sacheverell trial... | |
 | 1876 - 606 pàgines
...State in our hands ; that our principal views were the conservation of this power, great employments to ourselves, and great opportunities of rewarding...considerations of private and party interest, there wore others intermingled which had for their object the public good of the nation, at least what we... | |
 | 1876 - 604 pàgines
...State in our hands ; that our principal views were the conservation of this power, great employments to ourselves, and great opportunities of rewarding...however, true, that with these considerations of private aud party interest, there were others intermingled which had for their object the public good of the... | |
 | 1876 - 382 pàgines
..."Our principal views," said Bolingbroke, "were to the preservation of this power, great employment for ourselves, and great opportunities of rewarding those...and of hurting those who stood in opposition to us." This was the polished phrase of the Englishman. Hear, now, in our own vernacular, spoken nearly fifty... | |
 | 1878 - 176 pàgines
..."Our principal views," said Bolingbroke, "were to the preservation of this power, great employment for ourselves, and great opportunities of rewarding those...and of hurting those who stood in opposition to us." This was the polished phrase of the Englishman. Hear, now, in our own vernacular, spoken nearly fifty... | |
 | John Morley - 1889 - 268 pàgines
...state in our hands ; that our principal views were the conservation of this power, great employments to ourselves, and great opportunities of rewarding...and of hurting those who stood in opposition to us." At the same time he held that the Peace, though the only solid foundation for a Tory system, was also... | |
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