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Strona 18 - Lordship should be told of it by Sir Joshua Reynolds, as an event very uncertain ; for if I grew much better I should not be willing ; if much worse, not able to migrate. Your Lordship was first solicited without my knowledge ; but when I was told...
Strona 5 - His * references to expreflions which fell from him in the courfe of a debate, and his quotations from books, were fo faithful, that they might have been faid to have been repeated -verbatim. The purpofes to which he employed thefe amazing talents, were ftill more extraordinary : if it was the weak part of his opponent's arguments that he referred to, he was fure to expofe its fallacy, weaknefs, or abfurdity in the moft poignant fatire, or hold it up in the moft ridiculous point of view. If, on the...
Strona 18 - ... but, when I was told that you were pleased to honour me with your patronage, I did not expect to hear of a refusal; yet, as I have had no long time to brood hope, and have not rioted in imaginary opulence, this cold reception has been scarce a disappointment; and, from your Lordship's kindness, I have received a benefit, which only men like you are able to bestow. I shall now live mihi carior, with a higher opinion of my own merit.
Strona 42 - Our science of special pleading is an excellent logic; it is admirably calculated for the purposes of analyzing a cause, of extracting, like the roots of an equation, the true points in dispute, and referring them, with all imaginable simplicity, to the court or the jury : it is reducible to the strictest rules of pure dialectic...
Strona 8 - I ought; with this consolation, that it came from those whose object manifestly was general confusion and destruction at home, in addition to a dangerous and complicated war abroad. If I should lay before you any account or computation of the pecuniary damage I have sustained, it might seem a claim or expectation of being indemnified ; therefore you will have no further trouble upon this subject.
Strona 8 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics, martyr'd with the stone, Will any mortal let himself alone?
Strona 8 - Besides what is irreparable my pecuniary loss is great. I apprehended no danger, and therefore took no precaution. But, how great soever that loss may be, I think it does not become me to claim or expect reparation from the state. I have made...
Strona 5 - Pliny) liberal difpenfations of power upon an objeCt that knew how to add new luftre to that power, by the rational exertion of his own.
Strona 9 - Hittorian, that there is an ultimate point of deprejfion, as well as of exaltation, when human affairs naturally return in a contrary progrefs, and beyond which they feldorri proceed, either in their advancement or decline.
Strona 11 - July, 1765, he was advanced to the dignity of a Peer of Great Britain, by the Title of Lord CAMDEN, Baron of Camden, in the County of Kent. ON the 3Oth of July, 1766, upon the...

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