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Prior's "Life of Burke," vol. i. p. 337.
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Moore's "Life of Sheridan," vol. i. p. 523.
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He never received the promised £1000. (See Harrington's "Personal Sketches of His Own Times," vol. i. p. 429.)
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"Cornwallis Papers," vol. i. p. 364 n.
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"Burke … By whose sweetness Athens herself would have been soothed, with whose amplitude and exuberance she would have been enraptured, and on whose lips that prolific mother of genius and science would have adored, confessed, the Goddess of Persuasion." Prior's "Burke," p. 484.
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Townsend's "History of the House of Commons," vol. ii. p. 427.
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Forster's "Biographical Essays," vol. ii. p. 197.
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Vol. vii. pp. 339-367.
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Pryme's "Recollections," p. 218 n.
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O'Flanaghan's "Lives of the Irish Chancellors," vol. ii. p. 128.
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Townsend's "House of Commons," vol. ii. p. 394.
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Morley's "Life of Gladstone," vol. i. p. 143.
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Roper's "Life of More," p. 16.
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MacCullagh's "Memoirs of Sheil," vol. ii. p. 99.
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Speaking on Church reform, Sheil once said that when this was effected, "the bloated paunch of the unwieldy rector would no longer heave in holy magnitude beside the shrinking abdomen of the starving and miserably prolific curate." Francis's "Orators," p. 274.
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Raikes's "Journal," vol. ii. p. 256.
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Barrington's "Personal Sketches," vol. i. p. 213. (Curran once made a happy retort to Roche. "Do not speak of my honour," said the latter, "I am the guardian of my own honour." "Faith!" answered Curran, "I knew that at some time or other you would accept a sinecure." Philips's "Life of Curran," p. 59.)
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"Memoirs," p. 89.
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Whitty's "History of the Session" (1852-3), p. 7.
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"Journal," vol. i. p. 342.
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"Accustomed in their courts to consider every matter of equal importance," says Barnes, "they adopt the same earnest and stiff solemnity of manner, whether they are disputing about violated morality or insulted liberty, or about a petty affray where a hat, value one shilling, has been torn in a scuffle." "Parliamentary Sketches," p. 79.
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D'Ewes' "Journal," p. 666.
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"Life of Sidmouth," vol. i. p. 119.
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Harford's "Recollections of Wilberforce," p. 95. (Guilford hastily resumed his seat, shortly afterwards applied for the Chiltern Hundreds, and retired into comfortable obscurity.)
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His first effort in the Irish House, in 1709, was singularly abortive. "Mr. Speaker, I conceive – " he began. "Mr. Speaker, I conceive – " he stammered out again. Shouts of "Hear! hear!" encouraged him. "I conceive, Mr. Speaker – " he repeated, and then collapsed. A cruel colleague at once rose and remarked that the hon. gentleman had conceived three times and brought forth nothing! O'Flanagan's "Irish Chancellors," vol. ii. p. 8.
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