Memoirs: From the Peace concluded 1679. To the time of the author's retirement from public business. By Sir William Temple. Publish'd by Jonathan Swift, Partie 3B. Tooke, 1709 - 216 pages |
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Page 43 - ... who endeavour to contrive the putting off this parliament. I pray, Sir, let us not give them any advantage ; and then I doubt not but his...
Page 91 - ... council suited with his affairs, it was in his power to dissolve them, and constitute another of twenty, of ten, or of five, or any number he pleased, and to alter them again when he would : but to make counsellors that...
Page 41 - Majefty any diflike to this Houfe. Whatever you do as to the Bufinefs of Money for Tangier, I pray, Sir, let there be no notice taken in your Addrefs, of the Lords having carl out your Bill, for we have no Reafon to think the King was any ways concern'd therein.
Page 167 - Upon the survey of all these circumstances, conjunctures, and dispositions, both at home and abroad, I concluded in cold blood, that I could be of no further...
Page 34 - Meffage, having affur'd this this Houfe of his readinefs to concur in all other Means for the prefervation of the Proteftant Religion, this Houfe doth declare, That until a Bill be likewife...
Page 42 - But pray, Sir, let it lie at their doors that did it ; for the King could not be concerned in a parliamentary way. For by this means we may obviate all...
Page 170 - I had the occasions of it so often in my way, if I would have made use of them, that I grew to disdain them, as a man does meat that he has always before him. Therefore, I never could go to service for nothing but wages, nor endure to be fettered in business when I thought it was to no purpose. I knew very well the arts of a court are, to talk the present language, to serve the present turn, and to follow the present humour of the prince, whatever it is: of all these I found myself so incapable,...
Page 38 - Difadvantages we fliould receive by it, if it fhould fall into the Hands either of the Turk, or Spaniard, but efpecially the French ; who will not only be thereby enabled to fetter us, as to our Trade in the Levant, but to curb...
Page 169 - Besides all these public circumstances, I considered myself in my own humour, temper, and dispositions, which a man may disguise to others, though very hardly, but cannot to himself. I had learned by living long in courts and public affairs, that I was fit to live no longer in either. I found the arts of a court were contrary to the frankness and openness of my nature; and the constraints of public business too great for the liberty of my humour and my life.
Page 48 - Kings reigns : .upon this point Lord Hallifax and I had so sharp a debate at Lord Sunderland's lodgings, that he told me, if I would not concur in points which were so necessary for the people's satisfaction, he would tell every body...