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 384 - I have, I dare say, to ninetenths of my acquaintance, denied my being the author of Junius, or having any knowledge of the author, as often as the thing was mentioned, whether in jest or earnest, in style of disapprobation or of compliment. Perhaps I may have omitted to do so to you, in any formal manner, as not supposing you to have any suspicion of me. I now give you my word and honour that I am not the author of Junius, and that I know not the author of that paper, and I do authorize you to say...
Página 144 - 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 234 - You will then have reason to be thankful, if you are permitted to retire to that seat of learning, which, in contemplation of the system of your life, the comparative purity of your manners, with those of their high Steward, and a thousand other recommending circumstances, has chosen you to encourage the growing virtue of their youth, and to preside over their education.
Página 325 - 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 211 - 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 267 - I appeal to the doctrine you delivered in lord Grosvenor's cause. An action for criminal conversation being brought by a peer against a prince of the blood, you were daring enough to tell the jury, that, in fixing the damages, they were to pay no regard to the quality or fortune of the parties ; that it was a trial between A. and B. ; that they were to consider the offence in a moral light only, and give no greater damages to a peer of the realm than to the meanest mechanic.
Página 428 - I mean that of playing at back-gammon (a noise I detest), which is going forward in the public coffeehouses from morning till night, frequently ten or a dozen tables at a time.
Página 275 - Immediately upon my return, my Lord Barrington was so good as to make me the offer, with many obliging and friendly expressions. I had, however, solid reasons for declining the offer, and Mr. Anthony Chamier is appointed. All this I should be glad you would communicate to anybody that is willing to hear it. ' I have schemes floating in my mind about a certain six months' voyage, which perhaps are not quite out of the cards, and that's all
Página 299 - 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...

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