Journal of the Reign of King George the Third: From the Year 1771 to 1783, Том 1

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Страница 235 - English money of 234.OOO/.,3 and that in so doing the said Robert Lord Clive abused the powers with which he was intrusted, to the evil example of the servants of the public.
Страница 187 - Unlike my subject now shall be my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
Страница 199 - That all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, do of right belong to the State.
Страница 77 - Hochcrel, where he found company, had sat up all night drinking, and had not been in bed when he came to move his bill, which he had not even drawn up. This was genius, was almost inspiration.
Страница 182 - KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. The humble Address, Remonstrance, and Petition, of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of the city of London, in Common Hall assembled.
Страница 362 - He wore a duffil cloak, without anus, bordered with a broad purple lace. On his head he had a nightcap, and over that a hat with a broad brim flapped all round. It was difficult not to smile at a figure whose meagre jaws and uncouth habiliments recalled Don Quixote when he received the Duenna to an audience after he had been beaten and bruised, and was wrapped up in serecloths.
Страница 15 - ... no disgrace, to hide the disgrace which had fallen upon it, by providing for the young couple — at the public expense. Accordingly, a grant of lands in America was procured for them, and thither they went. On Christmas Day, 1764, Charles Fox writes of his cousin, to Sir George Macartney : — " We have heard from Lady Susan since her arrival at New York. I do not think they will make much of their lands, and I fear it will be impossible to get O'Brien a place.
Страница 4 - On the Thursday he spoke in the above debate, went to dinner at past eleven at night ; from thence to White's, where he drank till seven the next morning ; thence to Almack's, where he won £6000 ; and between three and four in the afternoon he set out for Newmarket.
Страница 37 - Fox, in patriot terms, complained of the enormity of recurring to history for precedents ; Stanley fetched precedents from Vienna, Berlin, Turin, and every arbitrary court, yet he lamented the unlimited flight of the bill, and yet approved even that, since he could not devise a better method. Captain Phipps more shrewdly observed that the Parliament was so flattering to the Royal Family, that it was giving leave to the Princes of the Blood to lie with our wives, and forbidding them to marry our...
Страница xxv - They began by pulling off their embroidered clothes, and put on frieze greatcoats, or turned their coats inside outwards for luck. They put on pieces of leather (such as worn by footmen when they clean the knives) to save their lace ruffles; and to guard their eyes from the light, and to prevent tumbling their hair, wore high-crowned straw hats with broad brims, and adorned with flowers and ribbons ; masks to conceal their emotions when they played at Quinze.

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