Secret History of the Court of England: From the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth ...

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Reynolds's Newspaper Office, 1876 - 374 σελίδες

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Σελίδα 205 - It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Σελίδα 63 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Σελίδα 28 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Σελίδα 325 - THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such, that if the above bounden James Wilson and Thomas Ash their heirs, executors, or administrators, shall well and truly pay or cause to be paid, unto the above named John Pickens his executors, administrators, or assigns, the just and full sum of Here insert the condition.
Σελίδα 93 - The Authentic Records of the Court of England for the last Seventy Years, written by Lady Anne Hamilton.
Σελίδα 332 - Chancellor, with the assistance of the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, and the Duke of Clarence, be requested to write a chapter in the room of it; and that Mr. Burke do see that it be truly canonical, and faithfully inserted.
Σελίδα 303 - The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Σελίδα 321 - I will make the noble duke a present of them all. Let him come on with his whole force, sword in hand, against the Constitution, and the energies of the people of this country will defeat his utmost efforts.
Σελίδα 336 - ... authors are for obscuring truth, because truth would discover them. They are not historians of an action, but lawyers of a party ; they are retained by their principles, and bribed by their interests; their narrations are an opening of their cause ; and in the front of their histories there ought to be written the prologue of a pleading, — " I am for the plaintiff," or
Σελίδα 6 - could condemn the paper or libel more than he did ; but he would come at the author fairly, not by an open breach of the constitution, and a contempt of all restraint.

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