 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 248 pages
...quitting the Whigs, wrote to Stella in these 15 remarkable words : " The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed...and undisputed; and I believe if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused." The good will with which the Tories regarded Addison 20 is the more... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 266 pages
...quitting the Whigs, wrote to Stella in these 15 remarkable words : " The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed; and 1 believe if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused." The good will with which the Tories... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 266 pages
...on quitting the Whigs, wrote to Stella in these remarkable words: "The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed ; and I believe if he 10 had a mind to be king he would hardly be refused." The good will with which the Tories regarded... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 238 pages
...account of diffidence he made no speeches. Swift remarked, when speaking of his reelection in 1710, — "If he had a mind to be chosen king, he would hardly be refused." With the fall of the Whigs in 1710, Addison lost his secretaryship. In a letter to a friend, written... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 234 pages
...account of diffidence he made no speeches. Swift remarked, when speaking of his reelection in 1710, — "If he had a mind to be chosen king, he would hardly be refused." With the fall of the Whigs in 1710, Addison lost his secretaryship. In a letter to a friend, written... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 232 pages
...account of diffidence he made no speeches. Swift remarked, when speaking of his reelection in 1710, — "If he had a mind to be chosen king, he would hardly be refused." With the fall of the Whigs in 1710, Addison lost his secretaryship. In a letter to a friend, written... | |
 | 1900 - 392 pages
...Treasurer as they would wish, to oppose him publicly in the House, particularly Lord Somers. ' 1 ' I believe if he had a mind to be chosen King he would hardly be refiiM-d ' (Swift, Journal, ed. 1876, 237 i. ). 'Mr. Addison is really a very great man with the Junto'... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 710 pages
...new elections, where the Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election 2 has passed easy and undisputed ; and I believe if...mind to be chosen king, he would hardly be refused. An odd accident has happened at Colchester : one Captain Lavallin,3 coming from Flanders or Spain,... | |
 | 1885 - 492 pages
...his life ; Swift notes upon his re-election in 1710 that it ' passed easy and undisputed,' and that ' if he had a mind to be chosen king, he would hardly be refused ' (Journal to Stella, 8 Oct. 1710)"; but his modesty prevented him from ever speaking. In the autumn... | |
 | William Williamson - 1902 - 264 pages
...quitting the Whigs, wrote to Stella in these remarkable words : ' The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed...undisputed ; and I believe if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused.'" 50. " Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare, Reft... | |
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The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed, and I believe, if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused. 
