Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis, K.C.B.: With Correspondence and Journals, Volumen1

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Longman's, Green, and Company, 1867
 

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Página 106 - Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Página 142 - I will not censure him for the avarice of a pension, nor the melancholy ambition of a title. These were objects which he perhaps looked up to, though the rest of the world thought them far beneath his acceptance.
Página 386 - Musis amicus tristitiam et metus tradam protervis in mare Creticum portare ventis, quis sub Arcto rex gelidae metuatur orae, quid Tiridaten terreat, unice securus.
Página 323 - An Act for establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe...
Página 209 - This letter will be probably a short one for a very good reason — because I have not Materials to make it a long one, for you know I do not mind Trouble ; not I. A letter of yours, dated in March, is arrived since I wrote last, but I think it does not require any particular answer, and if it did — for I have left it at Home. " Domestic news is as insipid as usual. Children bawling, servants fighting, my Wife scolding, your father and mother weeping, and Patty
Página 438 - Vhontieur de St. George; wore crosses, and finished the evening at the play-house, where we made the people all chorus
Página 169 - My Lord, the man who presumes to give your Lordship these hints, admires your character without servility, and is convinced that, if this country can be saved, it must be saved by Lord Chatham's spirit, by Lord Chatham's abilities.
Página 297 - Her person was that of animated, animating beauty, With a complexion of the most exquisite brilliancy, Unfaded when she fell ! Her understanding was of such quickness and reach of thought, That her knowledge, although she had learning, Was instant and original ; Her heart...
Página 156 - ... apology for its non-appearance : " We most heartily wish to oblige our valuable correspondent C., but his last favour is of so delicate a nature, that we dare not insert it, unless we are permitted to make such changes in certain expressions as may take off the immediate offence, without hurting the meaning.
Página 444 - I believe I have never told you that we have got Whitefield among us. He preaches like a dragon, curses and blesses us all in a breath, and tells us he hopes to die in the pulpit. He abuses the players, who in turn advertised to perform the Minor. The parsons petitioned the Governor against it, and the performance was dropt.

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