Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second: From His Accession to the Death of Queen Caroline, Volum 2John Murray, 1848 - 609 pàgines |
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Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second: From His Accession to ..., Volum 2 John Hervey Baron Hervey Visualització completa - 1848 |
Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second: From His Accession to ..., Volum 2 John Hervey Baron Hervey Visualització completa - 1884 |
Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second: From His Accession to ..., Volum 2 John Hervey Baron Hervey Visualització completa - 1848 |
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Pàgina 464 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Pàgina 156 - The difficulties and discouragements which attend the Study of the Scriptures, in the way of private judgment...
Pàgina 29 - English jockey ride, nor were any English horses fit to be drove or fit to be ridden; no Englishman knew how to come into a room, nor any Englishwoman how to dress herself, nor were there any diversions in England, public or private, nor any man or woman in England whose conversation was to be borne — the one, as he said, talking of nothing but their dull politics, and the others of nothing but their ugly clothes. Whereas at Hanover all these things were in the utmost perfection. The men were patterns...
Pàgina 432 - The professions you have lately made in your letters of your particular regard to me are so contradictory to all your actions, that I cannot suffer myself to be imposed upon by them.
Pàgina 191 - Lost or strayed out of this house, a man who has left a wife and six children on the parish; whoever will give any tidings of him to the churchwardens of St. James's Parish, so as he may be got again, shall receive four shillings and sixpence reward. NB — This reward will not be increased, nobody judging him to deserve a Crown.
Pàgina 470 - I will give it you under my hand, if ' you are in any fear of my relapsing, that my dear firstborn is ' the greatest ass, and the greatest liar, and the greatest canaille, ' and the greatest beast in the whole world ; and that I most ' heartily wish he was out of it...
Pàgina 433 - In the mean time- it is my pleasure that you leave St. James's with all your family, when it can be done without prejudice or inconvenience to the Princess. " I shall for the present leave to the Princess the care of my grand-daughter, until a proper time calls upon me to consider of her education.
Pàgina 51 - Hervey, turned to the Queen, and with a good deal of vehemence, poured out an unintelligible torrent of German, to which the Queen made not one word of reply, but knotted on till she tangled her thread, then snuffed the candles that stood on the table before her, and snuffed one of them out ; upon which the King, in English, began a new dissertation upon her Majesty, and took her awkwardness for his text.
Pàgina 519 - No situation of distress can soften him enough to make him forget to hate one moment." This advice Lord Hervey conveyed to the King, who took it with as much reluctance as his Lordship brought it ; though not with so good an excuse to himself for sacrificing his inclination to his fear, especially when he found it made the Queen so uneasy that she often asked if nobody would turn those ravens out of the house, who were only there to watch her death, and would gladly tear her to pieces whilst she...
Pàgina 365 - ... been exhibited to them of his folly and her distress. When they came to St. James's, there was no one thing prepared for her reception. The midwife came in a few minutes; napkins, warmingpan, and all other necessary implements for this operation, were sought by different emissaries in different houses in the neighbourhood; and no sheets being to be come at, Her Royal Highness was put to bed between two table-cloths.