Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second, Volum 2Lea and Blanchard, 1848 |
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Pàgina 123 - The difficulties and discouragements which attend the Study of the Scriptures, in the way of private judgment...
Pàgina 319 - Princess : you removed the Princess twice in the week immediately preceding the day of her delivery, from the place of my residence, in expectation, as you have voluntarily declared, of her labour; and both times upon your return, you industriously concealed from the knowledge of me and the Queen every circumstance relating to this important affair : and...
Pàgina 386 - Then might I sing, without the least offence, And all I sung should be the nation's sense : Or teach the melancholy muse to mourn, Hang the sad verse on Carolina's urn, And hail her passage to the realms of rest, All parts perform'd, and all her children blest ! So — Satire is no more — :I feel it die — No Gazetteer more innocent than I.
Pàgina 342 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Pàgina 375 - This is the last thing I have to give you — naked I came to you, and naked I go from you. I had everything I ever possessed from you, and to you whatever I have I return. My will you will find a very short one ; I give all I have to you.
Pàgina 318 - The professions you have lately made,' he wrote to his son (Sept. 10, 1737) '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 346 - I will give it you under my hand, if you are in any fear of my relapsing, that my dear first-born 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 114 - tis very fine, But where d'ye sleep, or where d'ye dine? I find by all you have been telling That 'tis a house, but not a dwelling.
Pàgina 151 - 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 35 - 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.