item: #1 of 27 id: 10844 author: Rhodes, Harrison title: A Gentleman from Mississippi date: None words: 45289 flesch: 81 summary: Boy, find Senator Peabody and Senator Stevens and tell them Senator Langdon is here. We came to call on Senator Langdon, Senator Stevens' new colleague, he said. keywords: altacoola; base; bud; carolina; city; congressman; day; father; good; gulf; haines; hope; know; langdon; man; men; mississippi; money; naval; new; norton; peabody; randolph; right; secretary; senate; senator; senator langdon; senator peabody; senator stevens; sir; stevens; time; washington cache: 10844.txt plain text: 10844.txt item: #2 of 27 id: 12073 author: Walpole, Horace title: Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I date: None words: 86922 flesch: 73 summary: Admiral Byng was not more unpopular than Lord George Sackville.[1] [Footnote 1: Lord George was brought to court-martial for disobedience of orders, and most deservedly cashiered--a sentence which was, not very becomingly, oveilooked some years afterwards, when, having changed his name to Germaine on succeeding to a large fortune, and having become a member of the House of Commons, he was made a Secretary of State by Lord North.] keywords: account; adieu; age; arlington; army; battle; brother; bute; charles; conway; country; court; day; dear; death; duchess; duke; earl; england; english; family; father; footnote; france; french; friend; general; george; good; head; high; hill; history; honour; horace; house; king; know; lady; left; letter; life; little; london; lord; lord george; love; madame; man; mann; mary; men; minister; miss; montagu; morning; new; night; paris; parliament; people; pitt; place; poor; pounds; present; prince; princess; queen; royal; scotland; set; short; sir; son; strawberry; street; thought; time; tis; town; walpole; war; way; wish; work; world; years; yesterday; young cache: 12073.txt plain text: 12073.txt item: #3 of 27 id: 12074 author: Walpole, Horace title: Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II date: None words: 93695 flesch: 74 summary: STRAWBERRY HILL, _June_ 19, 1777. He gradually became so enthusiastic in his regard for her, that he proposed to marry her, old as he was, in order that he might have an excuse for leaving her all his fortune; and he wrote the Reminiscences of the Courts of George I. and II., which are among his published works, for the amusement of the two sisters.] STRAWBERRY HILL, _June_ 30, 1789. keywords: adieu; age; america; brother; character; charles; chatham; choiseul; conway; country; court; day; days; death; doubt; duc; duchess; duke; end; england; english; family; footnote; france; french; friend; general; george; good; grace; gray; half; hand; head; hill; history; honour; hope; horace; house; june; king; lady; letter; life; london; lord; louis; love; madame; man; mann; men; minister; ministry; monsieur; mrs; new; night; paris; parliament; peace; people; pitt; pope; present; prince; public; queen; return; royal; second; sense; set; sir; state; strawberry; talk; thought; time; town; vous; walpole; want; war; way; wilkes; wit; world; writing; years cache: 12074.txt plain text: 12074.txt item: #4 of 27 id: 13047 author: Lodge, Henry Cabot title: Daniel Webster date: None words: 95053 flesch: 59 summary: 155 ff. Fillmore, Millard, offers Mr. Webster secretaryship of state, 333; candidate for Whig nomination, 338; urges Mr. Webster to stay in the cabinet, 344. Foote, Henry S., moves to refer admission of California to a select committee, 301. Foote, Samuel A., resolution regarding public lands, 172. [NOTE.--In preparing this volume I have carefully examined all the literature contemporary and posthumous relating to Mr. Webster. keywords: adams; argument; bank; bill; calhoun; case; character; clay; college; compromise; congress; constitution; country; course; court; daniel webster; england; force; friends; general; good; government; house; law; life; man; march; massachusetts; nature; new; opinion; opposition; party; people; point; policy; power; president; principles; public; question; regard; right; senate; slavery; south; speech; states; subject; time; union; united; war; washington; way; webster; years cache: 13047.txt plain text: 13047.txt item: #5 of 27 id: 17433 author: Ferguson, John L. (John Lewis) title: Arkansas Governors and United States Senators date: None words: 4442 flesch: 71 summary: Attended private schools in Kentucky, and Ozark Institute and Arkansas College, Fayetteville, Arkansas. This list of Arkansas governors and United States senators, with brief biographies of each person who has served in these offices, is intended to benefit students and others who have expressed interest in a published summary of such information. keywords: arkansas; children; county; democrat; governor; house; lawyer; married; senator; states; united; university cache: 17433.txt plain text: 17433.txt item: #6 of 27 id: 18000 author: Trollope, Anthony title: Phineas Finn The Irish Member date: None words: 264608 flesch: 85 summary: Mr. Phineas Finn is,--or was a short time ago,--in love with another lady; and Mr. Phineas Finn is not so much in love at this moment but what he is able to intrust his cause to an ambassador. The electors did elect Mr. Phineas Finn,--perhaps for the reason given by one of the Dublin Conservative papers, which declared that it was all the fault of the Carlton Club in not sending a proper candidate. keywords: answer; barrington; believe; bill; brentford; brother; bunce; country; course; day; dear; doubt; duke; earl; effingham; erle; father; fitzgibbon; friend; friend mr; goesler; going; good; government; gresham; half; hand; heart; home; hope; house; husband; kennedy; lady baldock; lady glencora; lady laura; laurence; left; letter; life; london; look; lord; lord chiltern; loughlinter; love; low; madame; man; mary; matter; member; men; mildmay; mind; miss; moment; money; monk; morning; mrs; office; parliament; people; phineas; phineas finn; place; present; question; right; room; son; speech; subject; suppose; tell; things; think; thought; time; truth; turnbull; understand; violet; way; wife; wish; woman; word; work; years cache: 18000.txt plain text: 18000.txt item: #7 of 27 id: 18640 author: Trollope, Anthony title: Phineas Redux date: None words: 264557 flesch: 82 summary: Why should the appointment of Mr. Phineas Finn make things go easier in regard to Mr. Bonteen? But Mr. Phineas Finn, with his female forces, has again interfered, and Mr. Bonteen has been relegated to the Board of Trade, without a seat in the Cabinet. keywords: adelaide; bonteen; chiltern; church; coat; country; course; daubeny; day; days; dear; doubt; duchess; duke; erle; evidence; father; fawn; find; friend; gentleman; goesler; good; great; gresham; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; husband; kennedy; lady; lady chiltern; lady laura; laura; left; letter; life; little; london; lord; lord chiltern; love; low; madame; man; matter; maule; mean; member; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; murder; occasion; office; opinion; palliser; party; people; phineas; phineas finn; place; poor; present; question; right; room; seat; sir; spooner; street; suppose; tankerville; things; think; thought; time; trial; truth; want; way; wife; woman; words; world cache: 18640.txt plain text: 18640.txt item: #8 of 27 id: 22084 author: Creswell, John A. J. (John Angel James) title: Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis date: None words: 11227 flesch: 62 summary: This man, so stern and inflexible in the execution of a purpose, so rigorous in his demands of other men in behalf of a principle, so indifferent to preferment and all base objects of pursuit, had a monitor to whom he always gave an open ear and a prompt assent. The sword may rust in its scabbard, and so let it; but free men, with free thought and free speech, will wage unceasing war until truth shall be enthroned and sit empress of the world. keywords: courage; davis; day; father; henry; hon; house; life; man; maryland; men; people; public; state; time; war; winter; years cache: 22084.txt plain text: 22084.txt item: #9 of 27 id: 37374 author: Bradlaugh, Charles title: The True Story of My Parliamentary Struggle date: None words: 50301 flesch: 67 summary: May 1880]:--THAT Mr. Bradlaugh, the Member for Northampton, having claimed at the Table of this House to make an Affirmation or Declaration instead of the Oath prescribed by Law, founding his claim upon the terms of the Act 29 & 30 Vict. c. 19, and the Evidence Amendment Acts of 1869 and 1870, and stating that he had been permitted to affirm in Courts of Justice by virtue of the said Evidence Amendment Acts: And it having been referred to a Select Committee to consider and report their opinion whether persons entitled, under the provisions of the Evidence Amendment Act, 1869, and the Evidence Amendment Act, 1870, to make a solemn Declaration instead of an Oath in Courts of Justice, may be admitted to make an Affirmation or Declaration instead of an Oath in this House, in pursuance of the Acts 29 & 30 Vict. c. 19, and 31 & 32 Vict. c. 72; And the said Committee having reported that in their opinion such persons cannot be admitted to make an Affirmation or Declaration, instead of an Oath in pursuance of the said Acts: And Mr. Bradlaugh having since come to the Table of the House for the purpose of taking the Oath prescribed by the 29 & 30 Vict. c. 19, and the 31 & 32 Vict. c. 72, and objection having been made to his taking the said Oath, it be referred to a Select Committee to inquire into and consider the facts and circumstances under which Mr. Bradlaugh claims to have the Oath prescribed by the 29 & 30 Vict. c. 19, and 31 & 32 Vict. THE SELECT COMMITTEE appointed to inquire into and consider the facts and circumstances under which Mr. BRADLAUGH claims to have the OATH prescribed by the 29 & 30 Vict., c. 19, and 31 and 32 Vict., c. 72, administered to him in this House; and also as to the LAW applicable to such claim under such circumstances; and as to the right and jurisdiction of this House to refuse to allow the said form of the OATH to be administered to him; and to Report thereon to the House, together with their Opinion thereon:--HAVE agreed to the following REPORT:-- In pursuance of the terms of the reference to your Committee, they have inquired into and considered (1) the facts and circumstances under which Mr. Bradlaugh claims to have the oath prescribed by the Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866, and the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868, administered to him in the House, (2) the Law applicable to such claim under such circumstances, and (3) the right and jurisdiction of the House to refuse to allow the form of the said Oath to be administered to him. keywords: act; affirmation; binding; bradlaugh; case; committee; commons; conscience; evidence; form; hear; house; john; law; member; o'connell; oath; order; parliament; question; right; seat; sir; speaker; table; taking; time; words cache: 37374.txt plain text: 37374.txt item: #10 of 27 id: 37656 author: Roosevelt, Theodore title: Thomas Hart Benton date: None words: 84375 flesch: 50 summary: But Jackson, Benton, and a number of other Union men were in attendance also, and when it came to Jackson's turn he electrified the audience by proposing: Our federal Union; it must be preserved. Said Benton: Even the title was made ridiculous to please the president, though not so much so as he wished. keywords: administration; american; bank; benton; bill; buren; calhoun; clay; compromise; congress; country; course; fact; feeling; good; government; great; jackson; land; law; life; like; man; matter; men; mexico; missouri; money; new; north; party; people; position; power; president; public; question; right; senate; slavery; south; speech; states; system; tariff; territory; texas; time; treaty; tyler; union; united; van; war; way; webster; west; whigs; work; years cache: 37656.txt plain text: 37656.txt item: #11 of 27 id: 37925 author: Crockett, Davy title: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. date: None words: 54734 flesch: 80 summary: few greater men in the world than myself. For then I might have been, by _common consent_, called _doctor_, as a heap of people get to be great men. keywords: author; bear; camp; company; country; cut; day; days; dogs; father; fort; general; going; home; horses; house; hunt; indians; jackson; left; life; major; man; men; miles; morning; new; night; people; place; river; set; thing; thought; time; volumes; water; way; work cache: 37925.txt plain text: 37925.txt item: #12 of 27 id: 41023 author: Haw, George title: From Workhouse to Westminster: The Life Story of Will Crooks, M.P. date: None words: 77921 flesch: 75 summary: On the opening day of the public Inquiry at Poplar Crooks and his colleague George Lansbury felt it to be their duty to protest against its being conducted by an Inspector who, they alleged, had his verdict in his pocket. Mr. Crooks alone fulfils both the functions of the representative. keywords: board; bread; chairman; chapter; children; committee; council; country; crooks; day; days; election; end; good; government; government board; guardians; half; help; home; house; labour; labour man; law; life; london; long; man; mayor; member; men; money; morning; mother; new; night; parliament; party; people; place; policy; poor; poplar; poplar labour; public; relief; round; school; street; things; think; time; trade; unemployed; wages; way; week; wife; women; woolwich; work; workhouse; working; years cache: 41023.txt plain text: 41023.txt item: #13 of 27 id: 4773 author: Walpole, Horace title: The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 date: None words: 307924 flesch: 77 summary: Lord George has paid the highest compliment to Mr. Conway's virtue. And it is no mere compliment, for Lord George has excepted against another of them--but he knew whatever provocation he may have given to Mr. Conway, whatever rivalship there has been between them, nothing could bias the integrity of the latter. keywords: account; adieu; administration; agreeable; answer; april; arlington; author; bedford; bill; bishop; body; book; brother; care; character; charles; cole; company; conway; countess; country; court; daughter; day; days; dead; death; doubt; duchess; duke; earl; england; english; esq; etc; evening; family; father; fear; feel; following; france; french; friend; general; george montagu; good; gout; grafton; gray; grenville; half; hand; having; head; heart; henry; hill; history; home; hon; honour; hope; hours; house; ireland; james; john; journey; july; kind; king; lady; lady hertford; lady mary; ladyship; late; leave; left; letter; life; like; london; long; look; lord; lord bath; lord bute; lord byron; lord charles; lord chatham; lord ferrers; lord george; lord halifax; lord hardwicke; lord hertford; lord holland; lord john; lord lyttelton; lord north; lord sandwich; lord strafford; lord talbot; lord temple; lord waldegrave; lordship; love; madame; man; manner; march; mary; mean; men; mind; ministers; ministry; miss; moment; monday; monsieur; montagu; morning; morrow; mrs; nay; new; newcastle; news; night; north; nov; oct; opera; opinion; opposition; page; paris; parliament; party; people; person; picture; pitt; place; point; politics; poor; pounds; pray; present; pretty; prince; princess; private; public; queen; question; read; reason; rest; return; rev; richmond; room; royal; second; set; sir; sister; son; state; strawberry; street; subject; t'other; talk; thank; thing; thought; time; town; townshend; trouble; truth; visit; vol; vous; walpole; want; week; wife; wilkes; william; wish; woman; wonder; work; world; writing; years; yesterday; young cache: 4773.txt plain text: 4773.txt item: #14 of 27 id: 4919 author: Walpole, Horace title: The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 date: None words: 311579 flesch: 75 summary: He had been an actor himself, and, when his sister retired from the stage, lived with her in the house Mr. Walpole had given her at Twickenham. Mr. Mason had informed him, that Mr. Masters had lately read a paper at the Antiquarian Society against some mistake of Mr. Walpole's respective a Duchess of Norfolk; and he adds, This I informed Mr. Walpole of in my letter, and said something to him of Masters' extortion in making me pay forty pounds towards the repairing his vicarage-house at Waterbeche, which he pretended he had fitted up for my reception. keywords: account; adieu; ailesbury; air; america; answer; april; arlington; august; author; believe; berkeley; bishop; body; book; brother; burke; care; castle; character; charles; cole; common; company; conway; country; court; damer; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; death; dec; deffand; desire; doubt; duchess; duke; earl; edition; edward; england; english; esq; etc; evening; family; father; fear; fine; following; france; french; friend; friendship; general; george; good; gough; gout; gray; half; hand; hannah; having; head; health; heart; henry; high; hill; history; home; hon; honour; hope; house; interest; james; john; july; june; kind; king; lady; language; late; leave; left; letter; liberty; life; london; look; lord; lordship; love; madame; making; man; manner; march; mean; men; mention; merit; mind; miss; moment; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; nay; new; news; night; nov; oct; opinion; page; pain; papers; paris; park; parliament; people; person; piece; place; play; pleasure; poetry; poor; pounds; power; pray; present; prince; princess; printed; public; queen; read; reading; reason; rest; return; rev; robert; room; royal; satisfaction; second; sense; sept; set; sir; society; square; state; strafford; strawberry; strawberry hill; street; subject; summer; talk; taste; thank; thing; thought; time; town; trust; truth; visit; vol; volume; walpole; want; war; weather; week; wife; william; wish; wonder; words; work; world; worth; write; writing; years; yesterday cache: 4919.txt plain text: 4919.txt item: #15 of 27 id: 5118 author: Trollope, Anthony title: The American Senator date: None words: 211153 flesch: 85 summary: People still spoke of old Mr. Reginald Morton as though his death had been a sore loss to the neighbourhood. Now it must be explained that when, in former years, his son's debts had accumulated on old Mr. Reginald Morton, so that he had been obliged to part with some portion of his unentailed property, he had sold that which lay in the parish of St. John's, Dillsborough. keywords: arabella; attorney; augustus; aunt; bragton; country; course; daughter; day; dear; dillsborough; duchess; duke; family; father; friend; girl; goarly; going; good; great; green; half; home; house; john; lady; lady augustus; lady ushant; larry; left; letter; life; lord rufford; love; mamma; man; mary; masters; matter; mind; miss; mistletoe; moment; money; morton; mother; mrs; old; people; place; poor; present; reginald; reginald morton; right; room; round; runciman; senator; sir; things; thought; time; trefoil; twentyman; ushant; way; wife; wish; woman; word; young cache: 5118.txt plain text: 5118.txt item: #16 of 27 id: 5639 author: Morris, Charles E. (Charles Eugene) title: The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox date: None words: 24211 flesch: 59 summary: Coming into the arena of national affairs when even America seems to doubt and when the selfish motive of fear threatens to palsy the nation's hand, Governor Cox became the man to vindicate the statements and the pledges given before all the world. Out of the night of war, the League of Nations has long been a supreme issue with Governor Cox and he was chosen to carry the standard because he had expressed the sentiment most strongly, most clearly and with greatest emphasis. keywords: america; country; faith; government; governor; governor cox; labor; law; league; legislation; life; man; men; nations; new; ohio; party; peace; people; policy; power; public; purpose; republican; school; state; system; time; united; war; world; years cache: 5639.txt plain text: 5639.txt item: #17 of 27 id: 5818 author: Twain, Mark title: The Gilded Age, Part 1. date: None words: 24879 flesch: 81 summary: There can't be two! We gone dis time--we done gone dis time, sho'! Uncle Dan'l(colored,) aged 40; his wife, aunt Jinny, aged 30, Young Miss Emily Hawkins, Young Mars Washington Hawkins and Young Mars Clay, the new member of the family, ranged themselves on a log, after supper, and contemplated the marvelous river and discussed it. keywords: children; clay; colonel; come; day; eyes; family; father; good; hands; hawkins; head; heart; house; know; land; look; lord; man; moment; nancy; people; right; sellers; thing; time; washington; water; way; world cache: 5818.txt plain text: 5818.txt item: #18 of 27 id: 5819 author: Twain, Mark title: The Gilded Age, Part 2. date: None words: 23799 flesch: 76 summary: If he were good enough he would attach himself to that company of young men in the Theological Seminary, who were seeing New York life in preparation for the ministry. We'll buy the lands, explained he, on long time, backed by the notes of good men; and then mortgage them for money enough to get the road well on. keywords: city; colonel; country; day; good; harry; hawkeye; laura; life; man; men; money; mother; new; philip; room; ruth; sellers; thee; thing; thought; time; town; washington; way; world; years cache: 5819.txt plain text: 5819.txt item: #19 of 27 id: 5820 author: Warner, Charles Dudley title: The Gilded Age, Part 3. date: None words: 21327 flesch: 73 summary: Mr. Harry Brierly drew his pay as an engineer while he was living at the City Hotel in Hawkeye. When the young gentlemen were on their way back to the hotel, Mr. Philip, who was not in very good humor, broke out, What the deuce, Harry, did you go on in that style to the Montagues for? Go on? cried Harry. keywords: colonel; country; day; father; good; harry; hawkeye; house; laura; life; man; men; money; new; philip; ruth; sellers; senator; thee; thing; thought; time; washington; way; woman cache: 5820.txt plain text: 5820.txt item: #20 of 27 id: 5821 author: Warner, Charles Dudley title: The Gilded Age, Part 4. date: None words: 24137 flesch: 79 summary: Said he: Have you ever read this, ma'm? There's your official salaries--you can't get good men for nothing. keywords: company; course; day; dilworthy; good; harry; lady; land; laura; man; men; mind; miss; money; mrs; new; people; philip; right; ruth; saw; senator; sir; thing; thought; time; washington; way cache: 5821.txt plain text: 5821.txt item: #21 of 27 id: 5822 author: Warner, Charles Dudley title: The Gilded Age, Part 5. date: None words: 22992 flesch: 82 summary: Mr. Trollop's Great Speech--which speech was written and composed by Miss Laura Hawkins under a secret understanding for one hundred dollars--and the money has not been paid.' But Mr. Washington Hawkins (one of the heirs) objected. keywords: bill; buckstone; colonel; day; dilworthy; good; harry; hawkins; house; laura; man; miss; philip; senator; thing; thought; time; trollop; vote; washington; way; woman cache: 5822.txt plain text: 5822.txt item: #22 of 27 id: 5823 author: Warner, Charles Dudley title: The Gilded Age, Part 6. date: None words: 21510 flesch: 79 summary: She needn't be looking down, he thought, for she was ever so much shorter than tall Philip. Philip left the capitol and walked up Pennsylvania Avenue in company with Senator Dilworthy. keywords: bolton; coal; congress; day; family; good; harry; hawkins; house; laura; man; men; money; new; people; philip; ruth; senator; sunday; thing; thought; time; washington; woman cache: 5823.txt plain text: 5823.txt item: #23 of 27 id: 5824 author: Twain, Mark title: The Gilded Age, Part 7. date: None words: 23166 flesch: 79 summary: The University was on file for its third reading this day, and to-morrow Washington would be a millionaire and Sellers no longer, impecunious but this day, also, or at farthest the next, the jury in Laura's Case would come to a decision of some kind or other--they would find her guilty, Washington secretly feared, and then the care and the trouble would all come back again, and these would be wearing months of besieging judges for new trials; on this day, also, the re-election of Mr. Dilworthy to the Senate would take place. The next telegram was from Mr. Dilworthy: I have not only brought over the Great Invincible, but through him a dozen more of the opposition. keywords: braham; colonel; day; dilworthy; hawkins; honor; judge; jury; laura; life; man; mind; money; new; noble; philip; ruth; sellers; senate; senator; sir; time; washington; way cache: 5824.txt plain text: 5824.txt item: #24 of 27 id: 59345 author: Still, Henry title: Slow Burn date: None words: 6539 flesch: 89 summary: He went space happy and bumped his head, Kevin said curtly, and there was no more reason to notify you than the rest of the crew. Kevin tried to keep his voice calm, but the lives of 90 men rode on it, on his ability to project his words through the crazy hash of static lacing this part of space from the multitude of radio stars. keywords: bert; gordon; jones; kevin; mckelvie; miles; morrow; rocket; space; station cache: 59345.txt plain text: 59345.txt item: #25 of 27 id: 6091 author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn title: Senator North date: None words: 103924 flesch: 82 summary: _Part II_ _Senator North, Miss Betty Madison, and several other Characters in this History go in search of a Mountain Lake and find an Ocean. Betty felt happy and elated, and blew a kiss to the beauty about her. keywords: betty; brain; burleigh; carter; country; course; day; days; emory; eyes; face; good; great; half; hand; harriet; head; hours; house; jack; know; lady; life; look; love; madison; man; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; north; people; politics; room; sally; senate; senator; senator north; state; thought; time; want; war; washington; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 6091.txt plain text: 6091.txt item: #26 of 27 id: 6741 author: Moore, Thomas title: Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 date: None words: 111397 flesch: 66 summary: _Sir B._ Never fear, he does not love well enough to be quick sighted; for just now he taxed me with eloping with his sister. Mr. Sheridan, who owed to this liberal conduct not only the possession of the woman he loved, but the means of supporting her during the first years of their marriage, spoke invariably of Mr. Long, who lived to a very advanced age, with all the kindness and respect which such a disinterested character merited. keywords: account; answer; bath; bill; brother; burke; character; comedy; country; course; day; dear; doubt; england; eyes; father; following; footnote; fox; friend; garrick; general; genius; gentleman; good; government; hand; heart; house; interest; ireland; lady; letter; life; linley; long; lord; love; man; manner; mathews; means; men; mind; miss; mrs; music; nature; new; occasion; old; opinion; party; people; period; person; pitt; place; plan; play; point; power; present; public; question; respect; richard; right; scandal; scene; school; second; sheridan; sir; sort; speech; state; style; subject; success; talents; thee; thing; thought; time; way; wit; words; world; writing; year; young cache: 6741.txt plain text: 6741.txt item: #27 of 27 id: 7775 author: Moore, Thomas title: Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 date: None words: 129882 flesch: 55 summary: To the conduct of Mr. Sheridan, during the last moments of his father, a further testimony has been kindly communicated to me by Mr. Jarvis, a medical gentleman of Margate, who attended Mr. Thomas Sheridan on that occasion, and whose interesting communication I shall here give in his own words:-- On the 10th of August, 1788, I was first called on to visit Mr. Sheridan, who was then fast declining at his lodgings in this place, where he was in the care of his daughter. Illness of the King.--Regency.--Private Life of Mr. Sheridan. keywords: account; answer; brother; burke; cause; character; circumstances; conduct; confidence; country; course; day; dear; death; degree; duke; england; father; feelings; following; footnote; fox; france; french; friend; general; gentleman; good; government; hand; hastings; having; heart; highness; honor; honorable; hope; house; justice; king; letter; life; lord; love; majesty; man; manner; means; mind; minister; moment; mrs; nature; object; occasion; opinion; parliament; party; people; period; person; pitt; place; power; present; prince; principles; private; public; question; respect; right; royal; sheridan; sir; situation; sort; speech; spirit; state; subject; theatre; thing; thought; time; truth; way; words; world; year cache: 7775.txt plain text: 7775.txt