Some account of the life of ... William Windham; intended as a preface to his Speeches in parliament

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Страница 35 - London, and to such business as that of the war-office, is more than you can conceive. It has given me a new stock of health ; and the beauty of the autumn mornings, joined to the general idleness in which one lives by necessity, and therefore without self-reproach, has given me a feeling of youthful enjoyment, such as I now but rarely know. You cannot conceive how you would like a ride here, with the idea that if you wandered too far, and went beyond the out-posts, you might be carried off by a...
Страница 7 - January 177s» at a meeting of gentlemen of the county of Norfolk, held at Norwich, that Mr. Windham gave the first promise of that eminence which he afterwards attained as an orator and statesman. Of his speech upon this occasion, a report has fortunately been preserved ; and though...
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Страница 6 - Mr. Windham had gone down to Norfolk, in consequence of a proposed meeting in that county, under the auspices of Lord Townshend, for the purpose of raising a subscription in aid of government, to be applied towards carrying on the war with the American colonies.
Страница 2 - Par. liament, was a man of versatile talents and an ardent mind. He was the associate of the wits of his time, the friend and admirer of Garrick, and the distinguished patron of all manly exercises. In his father's lifetime, he had lived much on. the continent, particularly in Spain. Of his proficiency in the language Df that country, he gave proofs in some printed observations on Smollett's Translation of Don Quixote.
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