Memoirs of King George the Third, his life and reignJ.C. Nimmo, 1901 |
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... York - Return of John Wilkes as Member for Middlesex - Wilkes Committed to the King's Bench Prison - Attempt of the Populace to Force the Prison - Riot and Loss of Life - Wilkes at the Bar of the House of Commons - Elected a Second ...
... York - Return of John Wilkes as Member for Middlesex - Wilkes Committed to the King's Bench Prison - Attempt of the Populace to Force the Prison - Riot and Loss of Life - Wilkes at the Bar of the House of Commons - Elected a Second ...
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... York , and which , in fact , is recorded in the follow- ing note addressed by him to his first minister : " LORD ROCKINGHAM : - I desire you would tell Lord Strange , that I am now , and have been hereto- fore , for modification ; but ...
... York , and which , in fact , is recorded in the follow- ing note addressed by him to his first minister : " LORD ROCKINGHAM : - I desire you would tell Lord Strange , that I am now , and have been hereto- fore , for modification ; but ...
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... York , to allow his sentiments on the Repeal Bill to be made known , he at once refused his assent . When a measure , he said , was once before Parliament , it ought to abide the decision of Parliament . He considered it improper and ...
... York , to allow his sentiments on the Repeal Bill to be made known , he at once refused his assent . When a measure , he said , was once before Parliament , it ought to abide the decision of Parliament . He considered it improper and ...
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... York should be the go - between on the occasion , we find her in a state of alarm lest her favourite son , by taking such a step , should incur his brother's serious displeasure . In so dangerous a crisis , Lord Temple said it was his ...
... York should be the go - between on the occasion , we find her in a state of alarm lest her favourite son , by taking such a step , should incur his brother's serious displeasure . In so dangerous a crisis , Lord Temple said it was his ...
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... York , were he to admit the Duke of Bedford into his closet , it would , in all probability , be construed into treating with his Grace . The Duke of York again discussed the subject with his brother on the following morning , but to no ...
... York , were he to admit the Duke of Bedford into his closet , it would , in all probability , be construed into treating with his Grace . The Duke of York again discussed the subject with his brother on the following morning , but to no ...
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الصفحة 346 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room, for hope. If we wish to be free ; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending' ; if we mean not basely to abandon, the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never, to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained', we must fight,! I repeat it,, sir, WE...
الصفحة 340 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
الصفحة 440 - Sir they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen." And he afterwards observed to Mr. Langton, "Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second.
الصفحة 61 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to...
الصفحة 13 - Now, we who know Mr. Burke, know that he will be one of the first men in the country.
الصفحة 92 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
الصفحة 101 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
الصفحة 293 - He has forfeited all the respect of societies and of men. Into what companies will he hereafter go with an unembarrassed face, or the honest intrepidity of virtue ? Men will watch him with a jealous eye — they will hide their papers from him, and lock up their escritoires. He will henceforth esteem it a libel to be called a man of letters...
الصفحة 205 - The cause of Government was ably vindicated by Lord North, a statesman of spotless integrity, a consummate master of debate, who could wield with equal dexterity the arms of reason and of ridicule. He was seated on the Treasury bench between his Attorney and...
الصفحة 352 - TO all you ladies now at land We men at sea indite ; But first would have you understand How hard it is to write : The Muses now, and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you — With a fa, la, la, la, la.