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... proved by the following agreeable anecdote related by the Duch- ess of Marlborough . A person , who supposed he had reason to complain of an act of oppression which he had experienced at the hands of the minister , contrived to obtain ...
... proved by the following agreeable anecdote related by the Duch- ess of Marlborough . A person , who supposed he had reason to complain of an act of oppression which he had experienced at the hands of the minister , contrived to obtain ...
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... proved to be no very considerable sum . With his frugal ha- bits , and taking into account the large income which he derived from Hanover and the civil list , it was expected that he would die the possessor of great wealth . He was ...
... proved to be no very considerable sum . With his frugal ha- bits , and taking into account the large income which he derived from Hanover and the civil list , it was expected that he would die the possessor of great wealth . He was ...
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... proved a burthen to him rather than a blessing . * Wraxall observes , in his Memoirs : " His sight had greatly failed him for some time preceding his decease . I have heard Mr. Fraser say , —who was during many years under secretary of ...
... proved a burthen to him rather than a blessing . * Wraxall observes , in his Memoirs : " His sight had greatly failed him for some time preceding his decease . I have heard Mr. Fraser say , —who was during many years under secretary of ...
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... proved her capacity to be of the very highest order . Besides a taste for polemical controversy , the Queen , in seeking the society of churchmen , seems to have been influenced by an anxiety to settle her religious faith . The divines ...
... proved her capacity to be of the very highest order . Besides a taste for polemical controversy , the Queen , in seeking the society of churchmen , seems to have been influenced by an anxiety to settle her religious faith . The divines ...
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... proved by the fact of her refusing to receive the sacrament when on her death - bed . Archbishop Potter was the person whose duty it was to administer it to her ; and , on quitting the apart- ment , the courtiers , who were of course ...
... proved by the fact of her refusing to receive the sacrament when on her death - bed . Archbishop Potter was the person whose duty it was to administer it to her ; and , on quitting the apart- ment , the courtiers , who were of course ...
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Seite 80 - keeper of her select library at Richmond. Swift amusingly ridicules the good fortune and wretched verses of the favoured poet:— The thresher Duck could o'er the Queen prevail: The proverb says,—
Seite 64 - was to have kissed hands tomorrow, but you will not care a farthing about that now, so I must tell you all I know of departed majesty. He went to bed well last night, rose at six this morning as usual, looked, I suppose, if all his money was in his purse, and called for his chocolate. A little after seven
Seite 364 - Newborough, Head Master of Eton, happening to converse with a friend on the oratorical powers of some of his old pupils, observed, " As for me, I am impatient to hear that Robert Walpole has spoken, for I am convinced he will make a good orator." A similar prediction was made by Arthur
Seite 143 - and, immediately afterwards, observing him pass by the windows of Kensington Palace, he remarked to a person near him: " That man is reckoned one of the most sensible men in England, and yet, with all his cleverness, I have just nicked him out of 5,000/." This anecdote affords a complete justification for what Doddington some time afterwards said of the Prince:
Seite 26 - gracious and polite to the ladies, and remarkably cheerful and familiar with those who are handsome, or with the few of his old acquaintance who were beauties in his younger days. His conversation is very proper for a
Seite 185 - Another instance of the Duke's ferocity is related in a letter from Horace Walpole to George Montagu, dated 20th July, 1749: " His savage temper," writes Walpole, "increases every day. George Boscawen is in a scrape with him by a court martial, of which he is one: it was
Seite 67 - that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly ; and with the happiest
Seite 67 - the Abbey, where we were received by the dean and chapter in rich robes; the choir and alms-men bearing torches; the whole Abbey so
Seite 111 - His Majesty saw the Queen's women-servants first, which was a very mournful sight, for they all cried extremely: and his Majesty was so affected when he began to speak that he went out of the room to recover himself." " The King is in a very ill state of health, that he may not live long.*
Seite 147 - Deesses, Venez, calmer mon chagrin ; Aidez, mes belles Princesses, A le noyer dans le vin. Poussons cette douce ivresse Jusq'au milieu de la nuit, Et n'ecoutons que la tendresse D'un charmant