The Grenville Papers: Being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, K.G., and the Right Hon: George Grenville, Their Friends and Contemporaries, Volume 2 |
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Page 444 - close of last Session, and the system of that great war, in "which my share of the Ministry was so largely arraigned, "given up by silence in a full House, I have little thoughts " of beginning the world again upon a new centre of union. "Your Grace will not, I trust, wonder if, after so recent "and so strange a phenomenon in politics , I have no dispo"sition to quit the free condition of a man standing single, "and daring to appeal to his country at large upon the "soundness of his principles, and...
Page 476 - Is it possible that we have abolished their laws, and customs, and forms of judicature all at once? — a thing never to be attempted or wished. The history of the world don't furnish an instance of so rash and unjust an act...
Page 267 - firmness and resolution must now be shown, and no one's friend saved who has dared to fly off ; this alone can restore order, and save this country from anarchy, by_ dismissing. ... I am not to be neglected unpunished.
Page 74 - Hypocrisy, meanness, ignorance and insolence characterize the King I obey. My independent spirit will never take a favour from such a man. I know that I have neither the lust of power nor of money ; and if I leave my daughter less dirty coin, I will leave her more honest fame. I trust, next to her own virtues, her greatest honour will be derived from her father.
Page 252 - The fourth question put to him on his arrival was, " When do you go?" The servants of the King and Queen were forbid to put on their new clothes for the wedding, or drawingroom, next day, and ordered to keep them for the Queen's birth-day. Such pains were taken to keep the Prince from any intercourse with any of the opposition, that — he has done nothing but take notice of them. He not only wrote to the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Pitt, but has been at Hayes to see the latter, and has dined twice...
Page 113 - THOUGH I am sensible I have no pretensions for asking you a favour, and, indeed, should be very unwilling to trespass on your good nature, yet I flatter myself I shall not be thought quite impertinent in interceding for a person, who I can answer has neither been to blame, nor any way deserved punishment, and therefore, I think you, Sir, will be ready to save him from prejudice. The person is my deputy, Mr. Grosvenor Bedford, who, above five-and-twenty years ago, was appointed Collector of the Customs...
Page 61 - I have never lost sight of the great object of the liberty of the subject at large.
Page 373 - Then, turning to the Stamp Act, he said that measure was not Mr. Grenville's. If the Act was a good one, the merit of it was not due to Mr. Grenville ; if it was a bad one, the errors or the ill policy of it did not belong to him. The measure was not his.
Page 373 - America, it may be proper to charge certain stamp duties in the said colonies and plantations...
Page 161 - Your account of the meeting last night gives me well-grounded hopes that everything in Parliament will go well ; the continuance of Wilkes' impudence is amazing, when his ruin is so near.