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" Sir, The circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary, the language you have now held is so extremely proper, and the feelings you have discovered so justly adapted to the occasion, that I must say that I not only receive with pleasure the assurance... "
Farmer George - Page 171
by Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1907
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Great Epochs in American History: The early years of the Republic : 1784-1811

Francis Whiting Halsey - United States - 1912 - 232 pages
...he was much affected, and answered me with more tremor than I had spoken with, and said: "Sir:—The circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary,...receive with pleasure the assurance of the friendly dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad the choice has fallen upon you to be their...
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America's Ambassadors to England (1785-1928): A Narrative of Anglo-American ...

Beckles Willson - Ambassadors - 1928 - 596 pages
...answered me with more tremor than I had spoken with." Adams thus renders the King's answering speech : " Sir, the circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary,...receive with pleasure the assurance of the friendly dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad the choice has fallen upon you to be their...
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This Man Adams: The Man who Never Died

Samuel Duff McCoy - 1928 - 354 pages
...cannot say. But he was much affected, and answered me with more tremor than I had spoken with, and said: "SIR: The circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary...adapted to the occasion, that I must say that I not only will receive with . . . pleasure . . . the assurances of the friendly dispositions of ... the . . ....
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The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785

Don Cook - History - 1995 - 446 pages
...express." The king was much affected, and answered me with more tremor than I had spoken with, and said: Sir — The circumstances of this audience are so...must say that I not only receive with pleasure the assurances of the friendly dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad the choice has...
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The Emerging Nation: A Documentary History of the Foreign Relations of the ...

United States - 1996 - 1114 pages
...affected and answered me with more Tremor than I had spoken with, & said "Sir - The Circumstances of thy Audience are so extraordinary, the Language you have...receive with Pleasure the Assurance of the friendly Dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad the Choice has fallen upon You to be their...
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Documents of the Emerging Nation: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1775-1789

Mary A. Giunta, J. Dane Hartgrove - History - 1998 - 348 pages
...affected and answered me with more Tremor than I had spoken with, & said "Sir - The Circumstances of thy Audience are so extraordinary, the Language you have...receive with Pleasure the Assurance of the friendly Dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad the Choice has fallen upon You to be their...
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The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from ...

David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...cannot say, but he was much affected, and answered me with more tremor, than I had spoken with, and said Sir The Circumstances of this Audience are so extraordinary,...must say, that I not only receive with Pleasure, the Assurances of the friendly Dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad the Choice has...
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The Wisdom of John Adams

John Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 308 pages
...was much affected, and answered me with more tremor than I had spoken with, and said:— "Sir:—The circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary,...receive with pleasure the assurance of the friendly dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad the choice has fallen upon you to be their...
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Adams on Adams

Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 214 pages
...say — but he was much affected and answered me with more tremor than I had spoken with, and said: "Sir — The circumstances of this audience are so...extremely proper and the feelings you have discovered [revealed] so justly adapted to the occasion, that I must say that I not only receive with pleasure...
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John Adams: Party of One

James Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 572 pages
...although enunciating clearly. "Sir," King George III had approximately said, "The Circumstances of thy Audience are so extraordinary, the Language you have...receive with Pleasure the Assurance of the friendly Dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad the Choice has fallen upon You to be their...
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