 | Eccentric biography - 1801 - 352 pages
...shewed him his swelled ancles, and asked him what he thought tit them, Radeliffe answered, " Why, truly, I " would not have your Majesty's two legs for " your three kingdoms. " Dr. Radcliffe was not a more rigid observer of the aphorisms of Hippocrates, than of the precepts... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 768 pages
...body was emaciated, said, " Doctor, what do you think of these r" — " Why truly," replied Radcliffe, bluntly, " I would not have your majesty's two legs for your three kingdoms." This freedom gave so much offence to the king that he would never suffer Radcliffe to come into his... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 694 pages
...and like a skeleton, said ' Doctor, what think you of these ?' • Why, truly replied Radclifte, ' I would not have your majesty's two legs for your three kingdoms ;' which freedom was resented so much, though not taken notice of then, that all the interest of the... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...greatly emaciated ; " Doctor, said he, what think ye of these •" " Why truly, replied RadclifTe, I would not have your majesty's two legs for your three kingdoms." This blunt answer, though the king seemed to take no notice of it, is said to have given him so rriuch... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...emaciated and skeleton-like, said, " What think yon of these?" " Why truly," replied the physician, " I would not have your majesty's two legs for your three kingdoms :" which freedom lost the king's favour, and no intercessions could ever recover it. When queen Anne... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1813 - 720 pages
...for Radcliffe, and asked him what he thought of his swoln ancles ; to which the physician replied, " I would not have Your Majesty's two legs for your three kingdoms." Queen Anne, on her accession, refused to reinstate him in his office ; he was however consulted for... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 386 pages
...emaciated, and like a mere skeleton, ' Doctor, what think you of these ?' ' Why, truly,' replied he, ' I would not have your majesty's two legs for your three kingdoms;' which freedom of speech was. resented so much, though seemingly not taken notice of during their conversation... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 386 pages
...emaciated, and like a mere skeleton, ' Doctor, what think you of these?' ' Why, truly,' replied he, ' I would not have your majesty's two legs for your three kingdoms;' which freedom of speech was resented so much, though seemingly not taken notice of during their conversation... | |
 | Joseph Lawson Sisson - Anglican church buildings - 1824 - 146 pages
...swollen, and said, " what do you think of these ?" to which Radcliffe bluntly replied, " why truly I would not have your Majesty's two legs for your three kingdoms." This unfeeling mode of answering his enquiries the King could never be persuaded to overlook. From... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...ancles, while the rest of his body was emaciated, and asked him what he thought of them ! ' Why truly I would not have your majesty's two legs for your three kingdoms,' replied Kadcliffe. He continued increasing in business and insolence as long as he lived, and was continually... | |
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I would not have your Majesty's two legs for your three kingdoms"— which freedom lost the king's favour, and no intercession could ever recover it. 
