Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1845 - British |
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Page 20 - used to say," according to Lady Hester Stanhope, "that Tom Paine was quite in the right, but then he would add, 'What am I to do? As things are, if I were to encourage Tom Paine's opinions we should have a bloody revolution.
Page 265 - Your Majesty will allow me to say that few things are more disgraceful and inimical to royalty than giving commands without examining all their different bearings, and casting, without reason, an aspersion upon the integrity of any branch of a family who had faithfully served their country and the house of Hanover. As no inquiries have been made of me what circumstances induced me to incur the debts alluded to, I deem it necessary not to enter into Lever, p.
Page 7 - I stumped down a dirty lane, where my father, who was always spying about through his glass, could see me. So, when I came home, he said to me, 'Why, little girl, what have you been about? Where was it I saw you going about upon a pair of — the devil knows what — eh, girl...
Page 7 - was quite unhappy about it : but, when the whole family was looking glum and sulky, I thought of a way to set all right again. I got myself a pair of stilts, and out I stumped down a dirty lane, where my father, who was always spying about through his glass, could see me.
Page 63 - Ah, doctor ! in town, during the sitting of parliament, what a life was his! Roused from his sleep (for he was a good sleeper) with a despatch from Lord Melville ; — then down to Windsor ; then, if he had half an hour to spare, trying to swallow something : — Mr. Adams with a paper, Mr. Long with another ; then Mr. Rose ; then, with a little bottle of cordial confection in his pocket, off to the House until three or four in the morning; then home to a hot supper for two or three hours more, to...
Page 249 - She had a remarkable talent for divining characters by the conformation of men. This every traveller will testify who has visited her in Syria ; for it was after she went to live in solitude that her penetration became so extraordinary. It was founded both on the features of the face and on the shape of the head, body, and limbs. Some indications she went by were taken from a resemblance to animals ; and wherever such indications existed, she inferred that the dispositions peculiar to those animals...
Page 28 - I let her do as she pleases," said Pitt, " for if she were resolved to cheat the devil, she could do it." She became the dispenser of much patronage in 1804, and was practically the sole Secretary of State for the Department of Treasury banquets. Lord Grey was the next First Lord who inhabited the house, and he lived there through all the stormy times of the Reform Bill. We all know the engraving of poor...
Page 13 - Stanhope got up at ten o'clock, went out, and then returned to be dressed, if in London, by the hair-dresser ; and there were only two in London, both of them Frenchmen, who could dress her. Then she went out to dinner, and from dinner to the Opera, and from the Opera to parties, seldom returning until just before daylight.
Page 225 - In pursuance of instructions which I have received from Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, I have the honor to communicate to you...
Page 73 - ... discretion. Speaking on this subject she herself says, " When we were at Walmer, it is incredible what a deal I got through every day. Mr. Pitt was pleased to have somebody who would take trouble off" his hands. Every week he had to review the volunteers, and would ride home in such showers of rain — I have been so drenched, that, as I stood, my boots made two spouting fountains above my knees.