Recollections of a Long Life: 1841-1852. E-book. Formato PDF John Cam Hobhouse Broughton   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Cabinet Council — The Queen's Speech — Samuel Rogers's Anecdotes — Fox's Opinion of Betty and Garrick — Sheridan's Dying Moments Grantley Berkeley seconds the Address — Peel's Speech — The Mysore Question — Lord Cardigan's Trial — Pricking of Sheriffs — The General Election — Reform of the Court of Chancery — The Copyright Bill Mahomet Ali in Egypt — Babbage on Monopolies — Fox at Nelson's Funeral — Christening of Princess Royal — The Duke of Wellington on Lord Keane — Prince George of Cambridge — His Opinion of King Otho of Greece — Debate on Lord Keane's Pension — Rumour about Jerusalem being made Independent State — Idolatrous Practices in India — Bishop Blomfield — Dinner With Sir F. Burdett — Pendarves Clive — Prince Albert and the Staghounds — Conversation With the Queen about India — Horace Walpole's Charade — Lieut. Shakespear Serious Illness of Miss Charlotte Hobhouse — Payne Knight — Burke's Letter to Sir Gilbert Elliot — Macaulay on Wilberforce — Settlement of Chinese Dispute — Lord J. Russell's Scheme for Defence of Canada Dinner at Baring Wall's — Sydney Smith's Stories — Conversation on Politics with Lord Ashburton — Death of President Harrison — Debate on Irish Bill — Defeat of Government — The Budget — Dillettanti Society — Resignation of Robert Gordon — Lawyers in Parliament — Precarious Position of Government — Approaching General Election — Cabinet Council — Question of Dissolution — Peel's Speech on Sugar and Timber Duties — Attack on Government — A Critical Cabinet Council — Decision to dissolve — Motion in House of Commons — Surprise of Opposition The Queen's Birthday — Peel's want of Confidence Motion — Sir John mcneill on the Koran — Sir Charles Napier, r.n. — Dinner at Star and Garter — Defeat of the Government — At Lady Holland's — W. Wind ham's J ournal — I decide to stand for Nottingham again — Sir Wil loughby Cotton — Lord Hill and Prince Polignac — I am elected for Nottingham — Last Cabinet Dinner — Melbourne on Governments and Popularity — The New Parliament — Lefevre Speaker — The Duke of Bedford Visit to Woburn — Dinner at Foreign Office — Opening Parliament by Commission — Disraeli and Labouchere — Debate in the Lords and in the Commons on the Address — Defeat of the Government.

A Journey Through Albania, and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople: During the Years 1809 and 1810. E-book. Formato PDF John C. Hobhouse   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It must be impossible to fix the precise period when the distinction between the vulgar and Hellenic Greek began to be generally acknowledged and distinguished by the invention of a new term. The transfer of the Empire to Byzantium, the irruptions of the Goths and other barbs rians. And the settlement of the Sclavonians and Franks in Greece, introduced, as has been observed, a variety of new words; but a complete mixture must have taken place between the natives and the Barbarians, before the written, or even the colloquial language, underwent in its idiom and structure such a material change, as was na cessary to form the Roma'ic out of the original Greek.