Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfeild: Earl of Charlemont, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 |
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Page 203 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 228 - And yet no lady's toilette was complete without Hume's attendance. At the opera, his broad, unmeaning face was usually seen entre deux tolis minois. The ladies in France give the ton, and the ton was deism...
Page 299 - ... his grey* and venerable locks blending with a pale, but interesting countenance, in which an air of beauty was still visible, altogether excited attention ; and I never saw a stranger come into the House, without asking who he was.
Page 345 - Turton ; but, in spite of him, or nature itself, I will very soon pay you a visit. Business, it is true, I have none to keep me here ; but you forget that I have business in Lancashire, and that I must go there, when I come to you. Now you will please to recollect, that there is nothing in this world I so entirely hate as business of any kind, and that I pay you the greatest compliment I can do, when I risque the meeting with my own confounded affairs, in order to have the pleasure of seeing you...
Page 365 - The business now advanced. The declaration of the minister; the example of such men as Savile, and Dunning; the spirit displayed in the British Parliament; were not without their influence here. .On May 27th, 1778, Mr. Gardiner,* a young gentleman of * Afterwards Lord Montjoy. accomplished mind, and large possessions, moved for leave to bring in heads of 'a bill for the relief of the Roman Catholics, which was granted, though, as might be expected, the circumstances of the two countries being totally...
Page 229 - How my friend Hume was able to endure the encounter of these French female Titans I know not. In England, either his philosophic pride, or his conviction that infidelity was ill suited to women, made him perfectly averse from the initiation of ladies into the mysteries of his doctrine.
Page 229 - Bolingbroke's editor. This lady, who was not acquainted with Hume, meeting him one night at an assembly, boldly accosted him in these words : — . Mr. Hume, give me leave to introduce myself to you ; we deists ought to know each other.
Page 226 - In London, where he often did me the honour to communicate the manuscripts of his additional essays, before their publication, I have sometimes, in the course of our intimacy, asked him whether he thought that, if his opinions were universally to take place, mankind would not be rendered more unhappy than they now were ; and whether he did not suppose that the curb of religion was necessary to human nature ? * The objections,' answered he, ' are not without weight ; but error never can produce good,...
Page 267 - It was sustained by great ingenuity, great rapidity of intellect, luminous and piercing satire; in refinement abundant, in simplicity sterile. The classical allusions of this orator, for he was most truly one, were so apposite, they followed each other in such bright and varied succession, and, at times, spread such an unexpected and triumphant blaze around his subject, that all persons, who were in the least tinged with literature, could never be tired of listening to him. The Irish are a people...
Page 248 - Bill is returned." A burst of joy from lord Charlemont, and the very few real friends of the bill, who happened to be present ! The majority of the company, confused, and, indeed almost astounded, began, after the first involuntary dejection of their features, to recollect that they had, session after session...