The Correspondence of the Late John Wilkes: With His Friends, Printed from the Original Manuscripts, in which are Introduced Memoirs of His Life, Τόμος 4R. Phillips, 1805 |
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The Correspondence of the Late John Wilkes: With His Friends ..., Τόμος 4 John Wilkes Πλήρης προβολή - 1805 |
The Correspondence of the Late John Wilkes: With His Friends ..., Τόμος 4 John Wilkes Πλήρης προβολή - 1805 |
The Correspondence of the Late John Wilkes: With His Friends ..., Τόμος 4 John Wilkes Πλήρης προβολή - 1805 |
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Adieu admired affectionate agreeable aldermen arrived attend August baron Bath best compliments Brighthelmstone Calais Catullus cher papa city of London coach Cotes count D'Estaing court dear daughter dear papa DEAR SIR dearest daughter dearest Polly desire dined Dover Eastbourn Edward Weston election excursion expence favour flatter French Friday friends Fulham Garboldisham gentlemen give glad grandmamma gratitude happy hear Henry Lawes honour hope India inquire Isle of Wight JAMES BOSWELL Johnson July kind lady last night LETTER liberty lord lord Camden lord-mayor lordship Luttrell madame De Chantereine Margate MARY WILKES mentioned ments Middlesex miss Wilkes Molyneux Monday monsieur morning nerally NUMBER obliged packet papa's parliament pleased pleasure Pray present Prince's-court received Reynolds Saturday sent sincerely sorry South Barrow Sunday tender thanks Theophrastus thing Thursday tion to-day to-morrow tour town Tuesday Wednesday Wilkes's wish write yesterday
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Σελίδα 308 - And who is the gentleman in lace?" " Mr. Wilkes, sir." This information confounded him still more ; he had some difficulty to restrain himself, and, taking up a book, sat down upon a window-seat and read, or at least kept his eye upon it intently for some time, till he composed himself.
Σελίδα 306 - Come, (said I,) if you'll let me negociate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go well." DILLY. "Nay, if you will take it upon you, I am sure I shall be very happy to see them both here.
Σελίδα 306 - What with Mr. Wilkes? not for the world, (said Mr. Edward Dilly:) Dr. Johnson would never forgive me." — "Come, (said I,) if you'll let me negotiate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go well.
Σελίδα 307 - Dilly's drawing-room, he found himself in the midst of a company he did not know. I kept myself snug and silent, watching how he would conduct himself. I observed him whispering to Mr. Dilly, " Who is that gentleman, sir? "Mr. Arthur Lee." JOHNSON. "Too, too, too" (under his breath), which was one of his habitual mutterings.
Σελίδα 306 - Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have, is agreeable to you." JOHNSON. " What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world, as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Σελίδα 194 - I return you thanks, in the name of the lord-mayor, aldermen, and commons, of the city of London, in common-council assembled...
Σελίδα 307 - And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, sir? My dear friend, let us have no more of this. I am sorry to be angry with you, but really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as if I could not meet any company whatever, occasionally.
Σελίδα 8 - That Henry Lawes Luttrell, esq. is duly elected a knight of the shire to serve in this present parliament for the county of Middlesex.
Σελίδα 174 - 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...
Σελίδα 172 - Governor-General of Bengal, he was invested with a discretionary power to promote the interests of the India company, and of the British Empire in that quarter of the globe. The general instructions sent to him from his constituents were, ' That in all your deliberations and resolutions, you make the safety and prosperity of Bengal your principal object, and fix your attention on the security of the possessions and revenues of the company.