 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
 | Samuel Dash - History - 2004 - 194 pages
...prince. "Every friend of his country," the writer wrote, "must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres,...the sanction of his sacred name to the most odious measure and to the must unjustifiable public declarations, from a throne ever renowned for truth, honor,... | |
 | Merrill Jensen - History - 2004 - 754 pages
...power, the tools of corruption and despotism," and lamented that the king had given the sanction of his name "to the most odious measures, and to the most unjustifiable public declarations" ever to come from the throne. The king is the first magistrate of the country but "he is responsible... | |
 | John Sainsbury - History - 2006 - 326 pages
...peace treaty was an oblique one. 'Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres,...renowned for truth, honour, and unsullied virtue', Wilkes wrote, adding: 'I wish as much as any man in the kingdom to see the honour of the crown maintained... | |
 | Jeffrey Thompson Schnapp, Matthew Tiews - History - 2006 - 470 pages
...on the nation. Every friend of this country must lament that a prince of so many great and admirable qualities, whom England truly reveres, can be brought...of his sacred name to the most odious measures and the most unjustifiable public declarations from a throne ever renowned for truth, honour, and unsullied... | |
 | Arthur H. Cash - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 496 pages
...who prided himself on his independence from ministers. When Wilkes asserted that the monarch has been brought "to give the sanction of his sacred name to...and to the most unjustifiable, public declarations," he put the responsibility back upon the king, and that infuriated the ministry. As a propaganda piece,... | |
 | 1868 - 718 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 foregoing is a fair sample of the passages which the Attorney-General of that day selected in support... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1872 - 490 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,...declarations, from a throne ever renowned for truth, honor, and unsullied virtue." the remaining arrests to the discretion of the officers. So diligently... | |
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