 At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring...  Notes and Queries - Strona 3111915Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1838 - Liczba stron: 892
...talents. At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air at the root of an old tree at Holwood just above the steep descent into the vale...occasion in the House of Commons of my intention to bring the subject forward." In the spring of 1787, Mr. Clarkson, who had published a Prize Essay upon the... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - 1838 - Liczba stron: 424
...talents. At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air at the root of an old tree at Holwood just above the steep descent into the vale...in the House of Commons of my intention ' to bring the subject forward." In the spring of 1787, Mr. Clarkson, who had published a Prize Essay upon the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1838 - Liczba stron: 594
...length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air at the root of an old tree at Pitt's, at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the...occasion in the House of Commons of my intention to bring the subject forward." ' — • vol. i. pp. 150, 151. He did so; but over-exertion in preparing his... | |
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 596
...length, I well rememberafter a conversation in the op'en air at the root of an old tree at Holvrood, jatt above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I...in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.'" The little allusions to scenery afford a key to Mr. Wilberforce's happiest tastes.... | |
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 588
...the open air at the oot of an old tree at Pitt's, at Holwood, jnst above the steep descent into be vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice on a fit occasion in the louse of Commons of my intention to bring the subject forward." '— ol. i. pp. 150, 151. ie did so;... | |
 | 1840 - Liczba stron: 504
...air, at the root of an old tree at Hoi wood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Kcston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons of ray intention to bring the subject forward." The avowal of his intention was delayed for prudential... | |
 | 1907 - Liczba stron: 524
...length I well remember after a conversation with Mr. Pitt in the open air at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the...to bring forward the abolition of the slave trade." These words are engraved on a stone chair which Earl Stanhope had set up close to this historic tree... | |
 | Sir James Stephen - 1843 - Liczba stron: 418
...old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the valley of Keston," that Mr. Wilberforce resolved "to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of his intention to bring the subject forward." The experience of the next twenty years was, however,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1846 - Liczba stron: 350
...old tree at Hoi wood, just above the steep descent into the valley of Keston," that Mr. Wilberforce resolved " to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of his intention to bring the subject forward." The experience of the next twenty years was, however,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1846 - Liczba stron: 362
...old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the valley of Keston," that Mr. Wilberforce resolved " to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of his intention to bring the subject forward." The experience of the next twenty years was, however,... | |
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