Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 4Richard Bentley, 1845 - Great Britain |
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Page 387 - Servants, that no Measure ought to be taken which can any way derogate from the Legislative Authority of Great Britain over the Colonies...
Page 283 - With a lumber of learning and some strong parts, Johnson was an odious and mean character. By principle a Jacobite, arrogant, self-sufficient, and over-bearing by nature, ungrateful through pride, and of...
Page 389 - These have always been, and still are, the sentiments of his Majesty's present servants, and by which their conduct in respect to America has been governed. And his Majesty relies upon your prudence and fidelity for such an explanation of his measures as may tend to remove the prejudices which have been excited by the misrepresentations of those who are enemies to the peace and prosperity of Great Britain and her colonies, and to re-establish that mutual confidence and affection upon which the glory...
Page 387 - I can take upon me to assure you, notwithstanding insinuations to the contrary from men with factious and seditious views, that his Majesty's present administration have at no time entertained a design to propose to Parliament to lay any further taxes upon America for the purpose of raising a revenue...
Page 388 - Inclosed I send you the Gracious Speech made by the King to His Parliament, at the Close of the Session on Tuesday last. What His Majesty is pleased to say in relation to the Measures which have been pursued in North America, will not escape your notice, as the satisfaction His Majesty expresses in the Approbation His Parliament has given to them, and the assurances of their firm support in the prosecution of them together with His Royal Opinion of the great Advantages that will probably accrue from...
Page 72 - Nothing could be more coarse or clumsy or ungracious than his outside. Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted), a wide mouth, thick lips, and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter.
Page 405 - Yorke was much indisposed from an attack of colic. Dr. Watson soon retired, and I was ruminating on the untowardness of the circumstance, never suspecting the fatal event which had occurred, nor the still more lamentable cause ascribed for it by the world, and, as I fear, upon too just grounds.
Page 54 - I will have recourse to this, sooner than yield to a dissolution of Parliament.
Page 266 - It is highly necessary that this strange and lawless method of publishing debates in the papers should be put a stop to...
Page 47 - Saturday between four and six in the evening. His servants in the first confusion had dropped too much to leave it in the family's power to stifle the truth ; and though they endeavoured to colour over the catastrophe by declaring the accident natural, the want of evidence and of the testimony of surgeons to colour the tale given out; and which they never took any public means of authenticating, convinced every body that he had fallen by his own hand — whether on his sword, or by a razor, was uncertain...