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... parliamentary life , extending from the beginning of the year 1806 to the close of it in 1818. The original manuscript is contained in three small quarto volumes . Except a few references to subsequent passages , and some pages inserted ...
... parliamentary life , extending from the beginning of the year 1806 to the close of it in 1818. The original manuscript is contained in three small quarto volumes . Except a few references to subsequent passages , and some pages inserted ...
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... parliamentary diary in which the conduct of various persons is animadverted upon but wherever these have been retained they have been considered to relate exclusively to public character or public conduct , and to be such as the terms ...
... parliamentary diary in which the conduct of various persons is animadverted upon but wherever these have been retained they have been considered to relate exclusively to public character or public conduct , and to be such as the terms ...
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... and the parliamentary journal ; the rest of the letter refers to other manuscripts of Sir Samuel Romilly , which are not of an autobio- graphical character . one day published either by his friends , or from viii PREFACE .
... and the parliamentary journal ; the rest of the letter refers to other manuscripts of Sir Samuel Romilly , which are not of an autobio- graphical character . one day published either by his friends , or from viii PREFACE .
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... Parliamentary life , I should have still fewer doubts about them . I know that he wrote them only for his private use ... parliament . And all this appears by a simple statement , with no pre- tension , no exaggeration , no display of ...
... Parliamentary life , I should have still fewer doubts about them . I know that he wrote them only for his private use ... parliament . And all this appears by a simple statement , with no pre- tension , no exaggeration , no display of ...
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... Parliamentary Committee on the amendment of the Criminal Law , his opinion was confirmed by their judgment . He intimated this to the Editors ; and delivered up to them all their father's manuscripts at that time in his possession ...
... Parliamentary Committee on the amendment of the Criminal Law , his opinion was confirmed by their judgment . He intimated this to the Editors ; and delivered up to them all their father's manuscripts at that time in his possession ...
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Page 50 - Of all the celebrated persons whom in my life I have chanced to see, Dr. Franklin, both from his appearance and his conversation, seemed to me the most remarkable. His venerable, patriarchal appearance, the simplicity of his manner and language, and the novelty of his observations, at least the novelty of them at that time to me, impressed me with an opinion of him as one of the most extraordinary men that ever existed.
Page 390 - ... pinus, quotque in flore novo pomis se fertilis arbos induerat, totidem autumno matura tenebat...
Page 130 - je ne crois pas qu'il en existe ; je n'en ai jamais vu.
Page 180 - Religion — language- — interest — affections may, and I hope will yet prove a bond of permanent union between the two countries : to this end, neither attention nor disposition, on my part, shall be wanting.
Page 33 - At a later period of my life, after a success at the bar which my wildest and most sanguine dreams had never painted to me — when I was gaining an income of 8000/. or 9000/. ayear — I have often reflected how all that prosperity had arisen out of the pecuniary difficulties and confined circumstances of my father.
Page 103 - Let me hope, Sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me, if aught in my misfortunes marks me as the victim of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet.
Page 453 - I think there is one effect of a standing army which must in time be felt so as to bring about the abolition of the system. A standing army not only diminishes the population of a country, but even the size and breed of the human species. For an army is the flower of the nation. All the most vigorous, stout, and well-made men in a kingdom are to be found in the army, and these men in general cannot marry.
Page 208 - ... for giving me your sentiments on the question, whether any crime ought to be punished with death. The objection you make to the punishment of death, founded on the errors of human tribunals and the impossibility of having absolute demonstration of the guilt of a criminal, strikes me more forcibly than any argument I have ever before heard on the same side of the question. I confess, however, that to myself it seems absolutely impossible, even if it were to be wished (of which I am not quite sure),...
Page 180 - I make it my humble and ardent prayer to Almighty God, that Great Britain may not feel the evils which might result from so great a dismemberment of the empire, and that America may be free from...
Page 21 - ... which lay in perfect harmony basking before it. I delight to see the door open,- that I may recognise the friendly countenances of the servants, and above all, of the old nurse, to whom we were all endeared, because it was while she attended my mother that her health had so much improved. But yet with such means of happiness, and in the midst of enjoyments so well suited to my temper and disposition, I was not completely happy. The melancholy to which I had from my childhood been subject, at...