 I am in doubt whether the imposition is greater on the sovereign or on the nation. Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres, can be brought to give the sanction of his sacred...  William Pitt, Earl of Chatham - Page 109by Albert von Ruville - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Francis Hitchman - English literature - 1881 - 404 pages
...nation. Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities can be brought to give the sanction of his sacred name to the most odious meanness, and the most unjustifiable public declarations." The king had been made to say with respect... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - English literature - 1881 - 408 pages
...nation. Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities can be brought to give the sanction of his sacred name to the most odious meanness, and the most unjustifiable public declarations." The king had been made to say with respect... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1882 - 614 pages
...mankind.' ' Every friend of his country,' he continued, ' must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres,...renowned for truth, honour, and unsullied virtue.' ' The ministers' speech of last Tuesday is not to be paralleled in the annals of this country.' The... | |
 | Epochs - 1882 - 794 pages
...Sovereign or on the nation. Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres,...renowned for truth, honour, and unsullied virtue." THE GENERAL WARRANT ; COMMITTAL OF WILKES TO THE TOWER. Upon this measures were taken to arrest the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1882 - 634 pages
...the writer continued : — 'Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres,...renowned for truth, honour, and unsullied virtue." Although a King's Speech was even then conventionally regarded as the speech of the Ministers, it was... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1885 - 810 pages
...Sovereign or on the nation. Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres,...throne ever renowned for truth, honour, and unsullied virtue.'1 THE GENERAL WARRANT ; COMMITTAL OF WILKES TO THE TOWER. Upon this measures were taken to... | |
 | English periodicals - 1887 - 642 pages
...sovereign, or on the nation. Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres,...and abhorrence. He has made our sovereign declare, My expectations have been fully answered by the happy effects which the several allies of my croivn... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - Great Britain - 1888 - 372 pages
...sovereign or on the nation. Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres,...renowned for truth, honour, and unsullied virtue.' II. ' The Minister cannot forbear, even in the King's Speech, insulting us with a dull repetition of... | |
 | Sir William Henry Gregory - Bath (England) - 1888 - 170 pages
...sovereign or on the nation. Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres,...sacred name to the most odious measures, and to the §The House of Commons in 1715 exhibited " Articles of impeachment of high treason, and other high... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1910 - 874 pages
...Ministerial effrontery ever attempted to be imposed upon mankind." He wondered that the King could ever be brought to give the sanction of his sacred name...and to the most unjustifiable public declarations. Somebody asked Wilkes, when a warrant for his arrest was out, how he dared write such stuff. " Oh,"... | |
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