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... period ; and , espe- cially considering that that period was the most eventful which has occurred since the era of the Reformation . The considerate reader will , therefore , not expect in these pages , a complete history of the reign ...
... period ; and , espe- cially considering that that period was the most eventful which has occurred since the era of the Reformation . The considerate reader will , therefore , not expect in these pages , a complete history of the reign ...
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... period of the late reign , and not see how much better he might have acted ? Those events , however , most calamitous to our country , when viewed upon a larger scale assume a different aspect ; and the misfortunes of a country may be ...
... period of the late reign , and not see how much better he might have acted ? Those events , however , most calamitous to our country , when viewed upon a larger scale assume a different aspect ; and the misfortunes of a country may be ...
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... period . " Oct. 15. 1752. - After some particulars respect- ing the old king , and his neglect of paying his son's debtst , the conversation turned on the education and disposition of the young prince George . Speak- ing of the people ...
... period . " Oct. 15. 1752. - After some particulars respect- ing the old king , and his neglect of paying his son's debtst , the conversation turned on the education and disposition of the young prince George . Speak- ing of the people ...
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... period past , the political heats subsided , and , in 1759 , on attaining the full age of twenty - one , the heir - apparent took his scat in the house of peers , as duke of Cornwall , on which occasion addresses in the usual adulatory ...
... period past , the political heats subsided , and , in 1759 , on attaining the full age of twenty - one , the heir - apparent took his scat in the house of peers , as duke of Cornwall , on which occasion addresses in the usual adulatory ...
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... period , sets this matter in a clear and striking point of view . Looking one day at some plate recently sent over from Hanover , the King observed the motto of the electorate , which he rendered in English to an attendant , “ I trust ...
... period , sets this matter in a clear and striking point of view . Looking one day at some plate recently sent over from Hanover , the King observed the motto of the electorate , which he rendered in English to an attendant , “ I trust ...
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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,