Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward ...: With Selections from His Correspondence, Diaries, and Unpublished Literary Remains ...J. Murray, 1850 |
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Page 104 - I do not like thee, Doctor Fell; The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know and know full well. I do not like thee. Doctor Fell!
Page 142 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Page 50 - that our long suspense is at length terminated, and that preliminaries of peace were signed yesterday evening. As you will naturally be anxious to know the terms, I enclose a short statement of all that are material; they will of course not be published at length till after the ratification. I cannot help regretting the Cape of Good Hope, though I know many great authorities do not attach to it the same importance that I do. In other respects I think the treaty very advantageous, and on the whole...
Page 181 - ... every one, to declare at once most unequivocally that upon this subject his sentiments never can change ; that he cannot ever agree to any concessions to the Catholics which his confidential servants may in future propose to him ; and that, under these circumstances, and after what has passed, his mind cannot be at ease, unless he shall receive a positive assurance from them, which shall effectually relieve him from all future apprehension.
Page 308 - Is it then that we live in such heroic times — that the present is a race of such gigantic talents and qualities as to render those of Mr. Pitt in the comparison ordinary and contemptible? Who, then, is the man now...
Page 308 - ... expected less than from any other) upon the memory of that great man, who bore a principal part in the proceedings of that period, I am utterly at a loss to imagine. Can it be necessary in our present difficult and distressing situation — a situation sufficiently full of divisions and distractions — to rake up the ashes of the dead, for the purpose of kindling new flames among the living?
Page 380 - At the same time, the Prince owes it to the truth and sincerity of character which, he trusts, will appear in every action of his life, in whatever situation placed, explicitly to declare, that the irresistible impulse of filial duty and affection to his beloved and afflicted father...
Page 486 - ... opinion and affections of the people. No such hope is presented to us by this project, which appears to us equally new in practice and objectionable in principle. It tends, as we think, to establish within the cabinet itself a system of counteraction inconsistent with the prosecution of any uniform and beneficial course of policy.
Page 176 - Ward" audible, and added signs for paper and ink. His trembling hand having feebly traced a number of wandering characters, and added what could be easily recognised as his wellknown signature, he sank back. The precious paper (precious, whatever may have been its unknown import, as a proof of remembrance at so solemn a moment !) was afterwards handed over by the physician in attendance, Sir Walter Farquhar, to Mr. Ward ; and many a time did he declare, as he displayed it to me, that he would give...
Page 74 - H chart's* brother-in-law). If a spokesman and signatures fail, by all means employ the prescript. I am not quite sure it would not come with still greater effect, by leaving Mr. Addington's imagination to suppose signatures were more numerous and more tremendous than those you are sure of. I have conformed, and shall conform strictly to what you say, in any conversation I may have with Mr. Pitt ; and in the mean while I have great satisfaction in assuring you, that he will decidedly stay on here....