Memoirs of King George the Third, his life and reignJ.C. Nimmo, 1901 - Great Britain |
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Page iv
... Council - Challenged in Parlia- ment Lord Chatham's Defence - Bill of Indemnity -The King's Attention to Business - - - PAGE 51 - CHAPTER IV . - Lord Chatham's Haughtiness Offensive to His Colleagues -Changes in the Ministry - Decline ...
... Council - Challenged in Parlia- ment Lord Chatham's Defence - Bill of Indemnity -The King's Attention to Business - - - PAGE 51 - CHAPTER IV . - Lord Chatham's Haughtiness Offensive to His Colleagues -Changes in the Ministry - Decline ...
Page vi
... Council Tax on Tea Entering the Ports of the Ameri- can Provinces - The First Cargoes Thrown into Boston Harbour - Boston Port Bill and Massachusetts Govern- ment Bill Passed through Parliament ― PAGE . 278 CHAPTER IX . Excitement in ...
... Council Tax on Tea Entering the Ports of the Ameri- can Provinces - The First Cargoes Thrown into Boston Harbour - Boston Port Bill and Massachusetts Govern- ment Bill Passed through Parliament ― PAGE . 278 CHAPTER IX . Excitement in ...
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... Council was a somewhat unworthy concession to powerful family influence . It may also be true that certain measures which they carried through Parliament owed their existence quite as much to a yearning for popular favour , as to any ...
... Council was a somewhat unworthy concession to powerful family influence . It may also be true that certain measures which they carried through Parliament owed their existence quite as much to a yearning for popular favour , as to any ...
Page 37
... council - table with the Duke of Newcastle ; he would give no advice unless personally to the king , or else to Parliament ; he should feel himself bound to offer the treasury to Lord Temple , and , whether Lord Temple ac- cepted it or ...
... council - table with the Duke of Newcastle ; he would give no advice unless personally to the king , or else to Parliament ; he should feel himself bound to offer the treasury to Lord Temple , and , whether Lord Temple ac- cepted it or ...
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... councils of his sovereign , appears watched on the 12th as those of the king . " Mr. Pitt went at eleven from Captain Hood's , in Harley Street , to Richmond . He arrived at noon , and stayed till twenty minutes past four . The king at ...
... councils of his sovereign , appears watched on the 12th as those of the king . " Mr. Pitt went at eleven from Captain Hood's , in Harley Street , to Richmond . He arrived at noon , and stayed till twenty minutes past four . The king at ...
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Page 346 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room, for hope. If we wish to be free ; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending' ; if we mean not basely to abandon, the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never, to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained', we must fight,! I repeat it,, sir, WE...
Page 340 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Page 440 - Sir they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen." And he afterwards observed to Mr. Langton, "Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second.
Page 61 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to...
Page 13 - Now, we who know Mr. Burke, know that he will be one of the first men in the country.
Page 92 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
Page 101 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Page 293 - He has forfeited all the respect of societies and of men. Into what companies will he hereafter go with an unembarrassed face, or the honest intrepidity of virtue ? Men will watch him with a jealous eye — they will hide their papers from him, and lock up their escritoires. He will henceforth esteem it a libel to be called a man of letters...
Page 205 - The cause of Government was ably vindicated by Lord North, a statesman of spotless integrity, a consummate master of debate, who could wield with equal dexterity the arms of reason and of ridicule. He was seated on the Treasury bench between his Attorney and...
Page 352 - TO all you ladies now at land We men at sea indite ; But first would have you understand How hard it is to write : The Muses now, and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you — With a fa, la, la, la, la.