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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... soon learn it . He inquired of Sir John Bernard if he understood French , to speak to her royal highness in that tongue ; but Sir John excused himself , and referred to the alderman who stood next him , but he excused himself also . The ...
... soon learn it . He inquired of Sir John Bernard if he understood French , to speak to her royal highness in that tongue ; but Sir John excused himself , and referred to the alderman who stood next him , but he excused himself also . The ...
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... soon as I had their authority , I would not fail to acquaint your majesty therewith , and to beg you to in- form the king of it at the same time . I am with all possi - ing and going off , they returned to Hampton- ble respect , Madam ...
... soon as I had their authority , I would not fail to acquaint your majesty therewith , and to beg you to in- form the king of it at the same time . I am with all possi - ing and going off , they returned to Hampton- ble respect , Madam ...
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... soon have the satisfaction to appear before you again . I am , with all imaginable respect , madam , your most humble , and most obedient son and servant , FREDERICK . Message from the king at Hampton - court , to the prince at St ...
... soon have the satisfaction to appear before you again . I am , with all imaginable respect , madam , your most humble , and most obedient son and servant , FREDERICK . Message from the king at Hampton - court , to the prince at St ...
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... soon , in which case a regency would be immediately appointed , and that the eyes of the nation were directed to her . She signified her entire approbation of all I had said by several short interrogations , and then said that she was ...
... soon , in which case a regency would be immediately appointed , and that the eyes of the nation were directed to her . She signified her entire approbation of all I had said by several short interrogations , and then said that she was ...
Page 54
... soon after which he complained of pains , which were thought to be pleuritic , and which were attended with a high degree of fever . His royal highness had how- ever been in a declining state for some time , some ascribing it to a hurt ...
... soon after which he complained of pains , which were thought to be pleuritic , and which were attended with a high degree of fever . His royal highness had how- ever been in a declining state for some time , some ascribing it to a hurt ...
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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.