Letters of the Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart., to Various Friends

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Page 110 - LEWIS' (SiR GC) Essay on the Government of Dependencies. Svo. 12s. Glossary of Provincial Words used in Herefordshire and some of the adjoining Counties.
Page 340 - TO A LADY WEEPING.* WEEP, daughter of a royal line, A Sire's disgrace, a realm's decay ; Ah ! happy if each tear of thine Could wash a father's fault away ! Weep — for thy tears are Virtue's tears — Auspicious to these suffering isles ; And be each drop in future years Repaid thee by thy people's smiles ! THE CHAIN I GAVE.
Page 293 - ... world, and to produce a war budget with a large additional taxation in a few weeks. All these circumstances put together inspired me with the strongest disinclination to accept the offer. I felt, however, that in the peculiar position of the Government, the office having...
Page 418 - The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 418 - Who lived to the age of a hundred and ten, And died by a fall from a cherry tree then...
Page 361 - I do not state from any personal motive of claiming merit to myself— for the victory is to be ascribed to the superior physical force and constancy of British soldiers.
Page 67 - Ireland ; the priests recommend early marriages on the score of what they are pleased to call virtue. The consequence of virtue being to cover this little rock with people so thickly, that already carrubas have become an article of food ; and if the increase goes much further, the people must starve if they are not fed by English charity. I have seen Hookham Frere, who found himself in Malta fourteen years ago, at his wife's death, and has forgotten to return to England. He has translated four plays...
Page 245 - Board has now become purely administrative, and has no character or policy of its own.
Page 271 - Every separate contributor has some special reason for wishing to write at length on his own subject.

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