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Author: ---- Clarke
Page Count: 390 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231217641
File Name: The.Georgian.Era.Volume.1;.The.Royal.Family..the.Pretenders.and.Their.Adherents..Churchmen..Dissenters..Statesmen.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...desirable to him, on account of its perquisites rather than its power. He was very amiable, without being virtuous; indulgent, not upon principle, but to gratify his feelings; and generous from impulse rather than conviction. Chesterfield says that he had no fixed principles, either of religion or morals. WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM. WlLLIAM, the eldest Son of Robert Pitt, of Boconnock, in the county of Cornwall, was born on the 15th of November, 1708, in the parish of St. James, Westminster. At an early age he was placed on the foundation at Eton, and in January, 1726, entered himself as a gentleman-commoner at Trinity college, Cambridge; where he displayed much talent, and was particularly applauded for his skill in poetical composition. The tendency of his constitution to attacks of the gout, which was hereditary in his family, compelled him to quit the university without obtaining a degree; and subsequently to abandon the army, in which, for some time after his secession from college, he served as a cornet of dragoons. He then made the tour of France and part of Italy; and by employing every leisure moment while abroad, in the cultivation of his mind, acquired, as Chesterfield states, "a great fund of premature and useful knowledge." In 1735, he went into parliament as member for Old Sarum, and attached himself to the party then headed by the Prince of Wales. His exalted talents, his lofty spirit, and commanding eloquence, soon rendered him singularly conspicuous; and his opposition to the ministry, in a short time, became so annoying, that Sir Robert Walpole meanly deprived him of his commission. Horatio Walpole also taunted him bitterly on account of his youth, although he was then thirty-two, and sneeringly observed, that the discovery of...
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The Georgian Era Volume 1; The Royal Family. the Pretenders and Their Adherents. Churchmen. Dissenters. Statesmen. ---- Clarke
Author: ---- Clarke
Page Count: 390 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231217641
File Name: The.Georgian.Era.Volume.1;.The.Royal.Family..the.Pretenders.and.Their.Adherents..Churchmen..Dissenters..Statesmen.pdf
Download Link: The Georgian Era Volume 1; The Royal Family. the Pretenders and Their Adherents. Churchmen. Dissenters. Statesmen
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...desirable to him, on account of its perquisites rather than its power. He was very amiable, without being virtuous; indulgent, not upon principle, but to gratify his feelings; and generous from impulse rather than conviction. Chesterfield says that he had no fixed principles, either of religion or morals. WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM. WlLLIAM, the eldest Son of Robert Pitt, of Boconnock, in the county of Cornwall, was born on the 15th of November, 1708, in the parish of St. James, Westminster. At an early age he was placed on the foundation at Eton, and in January, 1726, entered himself as a gentleman-commoner at Trinity college, Cambridge; where he displayed much talent, and was particularly applauded for his skill in poetical composition. The tendency of his constitution to attacks of the gout, which was hereditary in his family, compelled him to quit the university without obtaining a degree; and subsequently to abandon the army, in which, for some time after his secession from college, he served as a cornet of dragoons. He then made the tour of France and part of Italy; and by employing every leisure moment while abroad, in the cultivation of his mind, acquired, as Chesterfield states, "a great fund of premature and useful knowledge." In 1735, he went into parliament as member for Old Sarum, and attached himself to the party then headed by the Prince of Wales. His exalted talents, his lofty spirit, and commanding eloquence, soon rendered him singularly conspicuous; and his opposition to the ministry, in a short time, became so annoying, that Sir Robert Walpole meanly deprived him of his commission. Horatio Walpole also taunted him bitterly on account of his youth, although he was then thirty-two, and sneeringly observed, that the discovery of...
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