The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, Volume 7W. Durell, 1812 |
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Pagina 114 - Majesty the several rates and duties hereinafter mentioned; and do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal...
Pagina 133 - Marlborough's deduction of two and a half per cent, from the pay of the foreign troops, was also applied for carrying on the war.
Pagina 28 - ... soldiers have rendered problematical; but if he be among those who delight in war, it is agreed to be not for the reasons common with other generals. Those maligners who deny him personal valour seem not to consider that this accusation is charged at a venture, since the person of a wise general is too seldom exposed to form any judgment in the matter ; and that fear, which is said to have sometimes disconcerted him before an action, might probably be more for his army than for himself.
Pagina 176 - I have insisted, and obtained, that the Assiento, or contract for furnishing the Spanish West Indies with negroes, shall be made with us for the term of thirty years, in the same manner as it has been enjoyed by the French for ten years past.
Pagina 29 - She preserved a tolerable reputation with respect to gallantry," says Swift ; " for three Furies reigned in her breast, the most mortal enemies of all softer passions — which were, sordid avarice, disdainful pride, and ungovernable rage ; by the last of these, often breaking out in sallies of the most unpardonable sort, she had long alienated her sovereign's mind before it appeared to the world. This lady is not without some degree of wit, and...
Pagina 28 - He is noted to be master of great temper, able to govern or very well to disguise his passions, which are all melted down or extinguished in his love of wealth. That liberality which nature has denied him with respect to money, he makes up by a great profusion of promises : but this perfection so necessary in courts is not very successful in camps, among soldiers who are not refined enough to understand or to relish it.
Pagina 79 - ... of the peace, on condition, that for the fortifications of that place, a proper equivalent, that may content him, be given him : and as England cannot furnish that equivalent, the discussion of it shall be referred to the conferences to be held for the negotiation of the peace.
Pagina 141 - Among the matters of importance during this session, we may justly number the proceedings of the House of Commons with relation to the press, since Her Majesty's message to the House, of January the seventeenth, concludes with a paragraph, representing the great licences taken in publishing false and scandalous libels, such as are a reproach to any government; and recommending to them to find a remedy equal to the mischief.
Pagina 177 - Brisack, the fort of Kehl, and Landau ; and to raze all the fortresses both on the other side of the Rhine, and in that river.