 | William Burns (of Glasgow.) - 1861 - 162 pages
...parties, and avoiding offence to his Scottish subjects, by using the following style of address: — "Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton." At the same time there flourished a celebrated personage — or rather politico-literary shadow, whose... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1861 - 544 pages
...people, he added, with his own hand, to the draft of his first speech to Parliament, the winning phrase, "Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton." 1 The Stuarts were now the aliens, and not the Hanoverian king. A new reign, also, was favourable to... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 644 pages
...revised by Pitt, and containing a passage, said to be inserted by himself, as follows : — " Bora and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ! " This word he is said to have written " Englishman," but that lord Bute altered it to ' Briton ;... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1862 - 326 pages
...in this country," said George the Third , in his speech at tho opening of his first Parliament ; " born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.'1 U CONCLUSION. 1. I HAVE now told my little hearers a great many Stories. I have told them... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1761 - 582 pages
...united affiflance, and the bleifing of Heaven upon our joint endeavours, which I devoutly implore. Eorn and educated in this country, I glory in the name...; and the peculiar happinefs of my life will ever coniilt in promoting the welfare of a people, whofe loyalty and warm affection to me, I confider as... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1903 - 1082 pages
...prepared for him at the opening of Parliament, the young monarch inserted in his own hand the memorable words : ' Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.' Whether these admirable sentiments were the first-fruits of the teaching of the Princess-Dowager or... | |
 | Richard Middleton - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 272 pages
...Bute for the King's perusal. 13 Some minor alterations were made, including the insertion of the line' born and educated in this Country, I glory in the Name of Briton'. Such sentiments could not but cause unease to Newcastle and the other Whigs, reminiscent as they were... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...other generals. 3879 We are come for your good, for all your goods. GEORGE III King 1738-1820 3880 Bom - act in th(* 3881 (to Fanny Burney) Was there ever such stuff as great part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - History - 1998 - 252 pages
...English-born, and glowing with virtue and optimism, George's words to his first Parliament became legend: "Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Britain." 62 Country politicians interpreted the purge of the cabinet in 1761, an event colorfully... | |
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Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security... 
