...spirits," he said, " are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation ; others can have none." Week after week he pored over the Journals, to no purpose ; quiet...

...circumstances, all urged me forward ; all pressed me to undertake that which 1 saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have...

...circumstances, all urged me forward ; all pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation ; others can have...

...examination at the bar of the house, touching his sufficiency for the post he had taken. " They," he said, " whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public...mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have none." One of his letters at this period has been preserved, and only one,...

...circumstances, all urged me forward ; all pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poisop, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have...

...They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom 0. public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation ; others can have none. " My continual misery at length brought on a nervous fever: quiet...

...time his relative's honor, and his own circumstances, urged him to an attempt. " Those," he says, " whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation ; others can have...

...should fail him when it was most needed disqualified him for testing its powers. "They," he writes, "whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public...themselves is mortal poison, may have some idea of my situation ; others can have none." And that his | feelings were thus poignant may be ga- j thered...

...the bar of the House of Lords, to entitle himself publicly to the office." Speaking of this important incident in a sketch, which he once formed himself,...mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation : others can have none." — His tenors on this occasion rose to such an astonishing height,...

...circumstances, all urged me forward, all pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation — others can...