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... lord Bolingbroke , and Dr. Arbuthnot , Mr. Lewis , Mr. Ford , and Mr. Gay . " They relate many particulars , that would not other- wise have been known , relative to some of the most in- teresting events that have happened in this ...
... lord Bolingbroke , and Dr. Arbuthnot , Mr. Lewis , Mr. Ford , and Mr. Gay . " They relate many particulars , that would not other- wise have been known , relative to some of the most in- teresting events that have happened in this ...
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... lord Bolingbroke at Battersea in 1750 ) to ask his lordship about the facts mentioned in the said work , alleging , that a great part of the materials was fur- nished from his lordship's papers , when secretary of state ; who replied ...
... lord Bolingbroke at Battersea in 1750 ) to ask his lordship about the facts mentioned in the said work , alleging , that a great part of the materials was fur- nished from his lordship's papers , when secretary of state ; who replied ...
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... lord Bolingbroke's , in one of his Epistles to Swift , where he says— Pliny writ his letters for the public ; so did Sene- ca ; so did Balsac , Voiture , & c . Tully did not , and therefore these give us more pleasure than any which ...
... lord Bolingbroke's , in one of his Epistles to Swift , where he says— Pliny writ his letters for the public ; so did Sene- ca ; so did Balsac , Voiture , & c . Tully did not , and therefore these give us more pleasure than any which ...
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... Lord Bolingbroke , who knew him well , in two words , summed up his character in this respect , by saying , that Swift was a hypocrite reversed . In short , he always appeared to the world in a mask , which he never took off but in the ...
... Lord Bolingbroke , who knew him well , in two words , summed up his character in this respect , by saying , that Swift was a hypocrite reversed . In short , he always appeared to the world in a mask , which he never took off but in the ...
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... Lord Bacon , Milton , Har- rington , Algernon Sidney , Lord Clarendon , Dr. Sprat , Sir William Temple , Addison , Lord Bolingbroke , & c . with many other impertinencies . Not long after the publication of this work , there came out an ...
... Lord Bacon , Milton , Har- rington , Algernon Sidney , Lord Clarendon , Dr. Sprat , Sir William Temple , Addison , Lord Bolingbroke , & c . with many other impertinencies . Not long after the publication of this work , there came out an ...
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Pàgina 229 - 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.
Pàgina 116 - than I can say ; I never remember any " weather that was not too hot, or too cold ; too wet, " or too dry ; but, however God Almighty contrives " it, at the end of the year tis all very well.
Pàgina 139 - Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when Sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons. I have plucked up my spirit since then, faith ; he spoiled a fine gentleman.
Pàgina 242 - I was to see a poor poet, one Mr Diaper, in a nasty garret, very sick. I gave him twenty guineas from Lord Bolingbroke, and disposed the other sixty to two other authors...
Pàgina 313 - I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I caB say is, that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is, and your family. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few; few and miserable they must be.
Pàgina 314 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Pàgina 209 - I take nothing ill of him but his not giving me timely notice, as he promised to do, if he found the Queen would do nothing for me.
Pàgina 267 - ... author's design was to bring in the Pretender; although there was not a single syllable of party in the whole treatise, and although it was known that the most eminent of those who professed his own principles, publicly disallowed his proceedings.
Pàgina 136 - MD's letter ? one of these oddcome-shortlies. This is a week old, you see, and no farther yet. Mr Harley desired I would dine with him again today ; but I refused him, for I fell out with him yesterday, and will not see him again till he makes me amends ; and so I go to bed.
Pàgina 295 - Motte 8 received the copy (he tells me) he knew not from whence, nor from whom, dropped at his house in the dark, from a hackney coach : by computing the time, I found it was after you left England, so, for my part, I suspend my judgment.