The Public and Private Life of His Late...Majesty, George the Third: Embracing Its Most Memorable Incidents...and Tending to Illustrate the Causes, Progress, and Effects, of the Principal Political Events of His Glorious Reign. Comprising, Also, A...historical Memoir of the House of Brunswick...translated Expressly for this History, from the Celebrated Latin Work, Entitled Origines Guelphicae... |
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... head - the other the foot - a third the tongue - a fourth a leg - a fifth an eye - a sixth the milt - a seventh a horse - shoe , & c . - nothing remained but the heart , which signified Brunswick and Lunenburg , the only being his late ...
... head - the other the foot - a third the tongue - a fourth a leg - a fifth an eye - a sixth the milt - a seventh a horse - shoe , & c . - nothing remained but the heart , which signified Brunswick and Lunenburg , the only being his late ...
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... head , and a cess of Wales , congratulatory addresses were train supported by four dukes ' daughters , and transmitted to them from every quarter of the two earls , sat on the queen's left hand , the kingdom , the lord mayor and the ...
... head , and a cess of Wales , congratulatory addresses were train supported by four dukes ' daughters , and transmitted to them from every quarter of the two earls , sat on the queen's left hand , the kingdom , the lord mayor and the ...
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... head aside to conceal the smile which this blunder of the worthy al- derman had excited ; and , the prince seeing the confusion of the mayor and aldermen , hand- somely dismissed them ; and lord Baltimore , his royal highness's first ...
... head aside to conceal the smile which this blunder of the worthy al- derman had excited ; and , the prince seeing the confusion of the mayor and aldermen , hand- somely dismissed them ; and lord Baltimore , his royal highness's first ...
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... heads to the ground . Lam . i . 4 , 11 , 10 . How are the mighty fallen ! she that was great among the nations , and ... head : She smil'd , and weeping Woe grew glad . Religion , plain and simple , Dignified Her Mind , Despising Shew ...
... heads to the ground . Lam . i . 4 , 11 , 10 . How are the mighty fallen ! she that was great among the nations , and ... head : She smil'd , and weeping Woe grew glad . Religion , plain and simple , Dignified Her Mind , Despising Shew ...
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... head . Gentlemen - I will order every point you advance to be examined . I know that somethings are false , and misrepresented . I sent to acquaint you , that your remonstrances were to no effect , though they teaze and fatigué me very ...
... head . Gentlemen - I will order every point you advance to be examined . I know that somethings are false , and misrepresented . I sent to acquaint you , that your remonstrances were to no effect , though they teaze and fatigué me very ...
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Page 428 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
Page 315 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Page 111 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Page 313 - Johnson said he thought he had already done his part as a writer. "I should have thought so too, (said the King,) if you had not written so well.
Page 203 - Whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto Thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey Thy commandments, and also that by Thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Page 77 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood ; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties ; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our states, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
Page 231 - We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to return your Majesty our humble thanks for your most gracious speech from the throne.
Page 200 - It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O Lord [' Holy Father], Almighty, Everlasting God.
Page 77 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 532 - ... such as speak wrong. 15 I should utterly have fainted, but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 16 O tarry thou the LORD'S leisure ; be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart ; and put thou thy trust in the LORD.