The diary of ... George Bubb Dodington, by H.P. Wyndham

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Página 218 - Holdernesse : he hesitated for Some time, and then said, if that was the only difficulty, it could be easily removed; for lord Holdernesse was ready, at his desire, to quarrel with his fellow ministers (on account of the slights and ill-usage which he daily experienced) and go to the king, and throw up in seeming anger, and then he (Bute) might come in, without seeming to displace anybody.
Página 181 - I," said Newcastle, the prime minister, " think some middle way may be found out." He was asked what way.
Página 93 - That she did not observe the prince to take very particularly to any body about him, but to his brother Edward, and she was very glad of it, for the young people of quality were so ill-educated and so very vicious, that they frightened her. I told her, I thought it a great happiness that he showed no disposition to any great excesses, and begged to know what were his affections and passions. She repeated that he was a very honest boy, and that his chief passion seemed to be for Edward.
Página 122 - Hartcourt, lord Townshend, the bishop- of Worcester, and lord Talbot 'only. The bishop of Norwich and lord Harcourt both spoke, not to much purpose; but neither of them in the least supported the duke's question. Upon the whole, it was the worst judged, the worst executed, and the worst supported point that I ever saw of so much expectation.
Página 193 - Newcastle agreed to treaties giving subsidies to various German states and even to Russia, in return for promises to find troops for the defence of Hanover. Against this system Pitt openly declared himself. " I think," he said, " regard ought to be had to Hanover, if it should be attacked on our account; but we could not find money to defend it by subsidies, and if we could that is not the way to defend it.
Página 99 - BpHhgbroke), and Mr. Cresset, made treasurer by the Princess's recommendation;, were removed. The King desired him to consider of it ; but Lord Harcourt continuing in the same resolution, the Archbishop and Lord Chancellor were sent to him, to know the particulars of his complaints against those gentlemen. He replied that the particulars were fit only to be communicated to the King, and accordingly he waited on his Majesty, which ended in his resignation. The Bishop of Norwich sent his resignation...
Página 135 - She made me draw a stool and sit by the fire-side. Soon after came in the Prince of Wales and Prince Edward, and then the Lady Augusta, all in an undress, and took their stools and sat round the fire with us. We continued talking of familiar occurrences till between ten and eleven, with the ease, unreservedness, and unconstraint, as if one had dropped into a sister's house, that had a family, to pass the evening. It is much to be wished that the Princes conversed familiarly with more people of a...
Página 168 - Fox was of the cabinet and regent, and he was left exposed, &c. — that he would be second to nobody, &c. Mr Fox rejoining the company; Mr Pitt, being heated, said the same and more to him ; that if Fox succeeded, and so made way for him, he would not accept the seals of secretary from him, for that would be...
Página 187 - ... not a wild, dissipated boy, but good-natured and cheerful, with a serious cast upon the whole — that those, about him, knew him no more, than if they had never seen him. That he was not quick, but, with those he was acquainted, applicable and intelligent. His education had given her much pain ; his book-learning she was no judge of, though she supposed it small or useless ; but she hoped he might have been instructed in the general understanding of things.
Página 6 - ... diffident of the motives of either ; and the country gentlemen, in particular, may learn from it, that they have as much to dread from those who are in pursuit of power, as from those in actual possession of it ; from those who are, hopefully, working in the cold climate of disappointment, as from those who are luxuriously basking in the sunshine of enjoyment.

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