George the Third, His Court, and Family, Volume 2Henry Colburn, 1824 - Great Britain |
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... subject by a French astronomer . Mr. Bude , of Berlin , not approving of the name Georgium Sidus , thought proper to give the appella- tion of Uranus to the new planet ; but La Lande , astronomer - royal at Paris , even in a time of ...
... subject by a French astronomer . Mr. Bude , of Berlin , not approving of the name Georgium Sidus , thought proper to give the appella- tion of Uranus to the new planet ; but La Lande , astronomer - royal at Paris , even in a time of ...
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... subject of importing my effects from Holland and France , free of duty , which Mr. Frazier himself introduced , Lord Carmarthen invited me to go with him in his coach to court . When we arrived in It was on the seventeenth of February ...
... subject of importing my effects from Holland and France , free of duty , which Mr. Frazier himself introduced , Lord Carmarthen invited me to go with him in his coach to court . When we arrived in It was on the seventeenth of February ...
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... subjects and their citizens , and of their best wishes for your Majesty's health and happiness , and for that of your royal family . " The appointment of a minister from the United States to your Majesty's court will form an epoch in ...
... subjects and their citizens , and of their best wishes for your Majesty's health and happiness , and for that of your royal family . " The appointment of a minister from the United States to your Majesty's court will form an epoch in ...
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... subject so simple as this ; we therefore feel it incumbent to sketch , from Mrs. Delany's admirable correspondence , the real eti- quette of one of these occasions , which took place towards the close of this winter . That venerable ...
... subject so simple as this ; we therefore feel it incumbent to sketch , from Mrs. Delany's admirable correspondence , the real eti- quette of one of these occasions , which took place towards the close of this winter . That venerable ...
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... subjects in these innocent and interesting amusements , and nearly laying aside all exterior form and ceremony . This exhibition had first been proposed by Lord Fitzwilliam , Sir F Haydn was present at one of those commemorations , per ...
... subjects in these innocent and interesting amusements , and nearly laying aside all exterior form and ceremony . This exhibition had first been proposed by Lord Fitzwilliam , Sir F Haydn was present at one of those commemorations , per ...
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Page 15 - I stood in this place, where it seems all ministers stand upon such occasions, always attended by the master of ceremonies, the room...
Page 14 - Lordship told me, uninterruptedly in that office, through all the changes in administration for thirty years, having first been appointed by the Earl of Holderness.
Page 354 - Ought I not to come forward in a moment of unexampled difficulty and danger ? Ought I not to share in the glory of victory, when I have everything to lose by defeat? The highest places in your majesty's service are filled by the younger branches of the royal family; to me alone no place is assigned; I am not thought worthy to be even the junior major-general of your army.
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Page 97 - There could be no hesitation on the part of Mr. Pitt; hut, having held the necessary conference with the Chancellor, he waited upon the King at the appointed time, and found him perfectly of sound mind, and in every respect as before his illness, competent to all the affairs of his public station. This was the first nolice in any way which Mr.