 | Earl James Waldegrave Waldegrave - 1821 - Počet stránok 208
...of his master, or of Duke of the public, he has greatly impaired a very conNewcastle, ii siderable estate by electioneering, and keeping up a good parliamentary...to a higher pitch, if every political friend was a favorite mistress. He is in his sixty-fourth or sixty-fifth year, yet thirsts for power in a future... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 536
...competitors. : • " "Neither can he be accused of avarice, or of rapaciousness; for though he will give bribes, he is above accepting them ; and instead...perhaps improperly, called the service of the crown. " Pride Is not to be numbered amongst his faults ; on the contrary lie deviates into the opposite extreme,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - Počet stránok 590
...his lifetime, says, ' Ambition, fear, and jealousy, are his prevailing passions :' a jealousy which ' could not be carried to a higher pitch if every political friend was a favourite mistress.' His correspondence in the present work abounds with the indications of this unquiet temper ; suspicions,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1834 - Počet stránok 600
...his lifetime, says, ' Ambition, fear, and jealousy, are his prevailing passions :' a jealousy which ' could not be carried to a higher pitch if every political friend was a favourite mistress.' His correspondence in the present work abounds with the indications of this unquiet temper ; suspicions,... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1834 - Počet stránok 518
...his lifetime, says, " Ambition, fear, and jealousy are his prevailing passions : " a jealousy which " could not be carried to a higher pitch if every political friend was a favorite mistress." His correspondence in the present work abounds with the indications of this unquiet... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - Počet stránok 546
...give bribes, he is above accepting them ; and instead of having enriched himself at the expense of bis master or of the public, he has greatly impaired a...which is commonly, though perhaps improperly, called tne service of the crown. His the vainest woman of contemporary beauties, he had CHAP. long struggled... | |
 | Thomas Bailey - 1852 - Počet stránok 520
...he will give bribes, he is r> above accepting them ; and instead of enriching himself at the expense of his master, or of the public, he has greatly impaired...jealousy, it could not be carried to a higher pitch, was even' political friend a favourite mistress. He is in his sixty-fourth or sixty-fifth year, yet... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - Počet stránok 518
...will give bribes, he is above accepting them ; and, instead of having enriched himself at the expense of his master, or of the public, he has greatly impaired...electioneering, and keeping up a good parliamentary in- I terest, which is commonly, though perhaps improperly, called the service of the crown. His extraordinary... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1859 - Počet stránok 520
...will give bribes, he is above accepting them ; and instead of having enriched himself at the expense of his master, or of the public, he has greatly impaired...though perhaps improperly, called the service of the crown."J Every effort of his life tended to the formation or confirmation of political connexions,... | |
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... of his master, or of the public, he has greatly impaired a very considerable estate by electioneering, and keeping up a good parliamentary interest, which is commonly, though perhaps improperly, called the service of the crown. 
