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... lady of fashion ( lady Char- lotte E ) where lady Huntingdon was , who had then recently turned her back upon the world , and her ladyship tartly replied , with a sneer , " I suppose praying with her beggars , " the prince shook his ...
... lady of fashion ( lady Char- lotte E ) where lady Huntingdon was , who had then recently turned her back upon the world , and her ladyship tartly replied , with a sneer , " I suppose praying with her beggars , " the prince shook his ...
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... lady Hunting- don , to lift me up with her to heaven * . " The early education of the young prince ( our late ... lady here referred to was probably lady Charlotte Edwin , one of the princess's household . + Doddridge's Works . Vol . I ...
... lady Hunting- don , to lift me up with her to heaven * . " The early education of the young prince ( our late ... lady here referred to was probably lady Charlotte Edwin , one of the princess's household . + Doddridge's Works . Vol . I ...
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... lady Augusta , all in an undress , and took their stools , and sat round the fire with us . * This complaint probably was only so far just as applied to the princess , of whom the king was always jealous , as well as the nation , and of ...
... lady Augusta , all in an undress , and took their stools , and sat round the fire with us . * This complaint probably was only so far just as applied to the princess , of whom the king was always jealous , as well as the nation , and of ...
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... lady of rank † , and his majesty's * It is asserted , that this was in consequence of his affronting lord Bute in an election business , in which his lordship very improperly interfered . + Lady Charlotte Lenox , whose beauty and ...
... lady of rank † , and his majesty's * It is asserted , that this was in consequence of his affronting lord Bute in an election business , in which his lordship very improperly interfered . + Lady Charlotte Lenox , whose beauty and ...
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... Lady . The King , however , adhered to the sense of the great majority of his cabinet ; and it is not surprising , that a young man of 23 should pause Annual Register , 1761 , p . 44 . at measures which alarmed so many older men . It I 85.
... Lady . The King , however , adhered to the sense of the great majority of his cabinet ; and it is not surprising , that a young man of 23 should pause Annual Register , 1761 , p . 44 . at measures which alarmed so many older men . It I 85.
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Page 45 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me, I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Page 101 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Page 59 - Will you to the utmost of your " power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the " gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established " by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 49 - III. c. 23, enacted at the earnest request of the king himself from the throne, the judges are continued in their offices during their good behaviour, notwithstanding any demise of the crown, which was formerly held...
Page 140 - ... to recoil within them : men promoted to the highest seats of justice— some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a court of justice in their own. They protected by your arms ! They have nobly taken up arms in your defence...
Page 208 - The Wisdom and Goodness of God in having made both rich and poor; with an Appendix containing Reflections on the present State of England and France.
Page 107 - The Toleration Act renders that which was illegal before, now legal. The Dissenters' way of worship is permitted and allowed by this act. It is not only exempted from punishment, but rendered innocent and lawful. It is established; it is put under the protection, and is not merely under the connivance of the law.
Page 275 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 139 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Page 165 - Table, and ordered by the King to deliver his official Opinion on the point ; stated in the most precise terms, that any such Assemblage might be dispersed by military force, without waiting for Forms, or reading the Act in Question. " Is that your Declaration of the Law, as Attorney-general ?" said the King. Wedderburn answering decidedly in the affirmative, " Then so let it be done,