 | 1816 - 564 pages
...Macpherson supposes James to have rejected the proposal. Twiee, if we may believe James's own words, ' his Majesty would not hear of it, looking upon the project as impracticable, and expo^eing his friends, when he had no prospect of seconding them. ' A warrant to... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 pages
...given of the transaction by James himselft is as follows: — " That about the end of the year 1693, a proposal had been made to the King, by one newly...would not hear of it, looking upon the project as impracticable, and exposing his friends when he had no prospect of seconding them. The same thing some... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1848 - 902 pages
...solicited to agree to something ofthat nature, but had still rejected it. About the end of the year 1693 a proposal had been made to the king, by one newly...of England, of seizing and bringing away the Prince oí Orange, and of making a rising in and about London; but his majesty would not hear of it, looking... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 536 pages
...prince of Orange." James, in his own Memoirs, states that in 1693 a proposal had been made to him " of seizing and bringing away the prince of Orange,...and of making a rising in and about London " — but he " would not hear of it, looking upon the project as impracticable." It was again proposed, he says,... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - World history - 1884 - 1152 pages
...prince of Orange." James, in his own Memoirs, states that in 1693 a proposal had been made to him " of seizing and bringing away the prince of Orange,...and of making a rising in and about London " — but he " would not hear of it, looking upon the project as impracticable." In 1695 it was a third time... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 664 pages
...solicited to agree to something of that nature, but hud still rejected it. About the end of the year 1693 a proposal had been made to the king, by one newly...would not hear of it, looking upon the project as impracticable, and exposing his friends when he had no prospect of seconding them ; the same thing,... | |
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That about the end of the year 1693, a proposal had been made to the King, by one newly come out of England, of seizing and bringing away the Prince of Orange... 