Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen22Hunt and Clarke, 1828 |
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Página 216 - 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 223 - that I thought prince Ferdinand was become as unpopular in the army, as he was once popular; that he was accused of three great heads of malversation. The first was, that he had exacted complete pay for uncomplete corps: the second, that not one shilling of all those devastating contributions, had been carried to the public. account: the third, that he had received good money, and had paid the troops in bad, to a very great amount, and at a great discount.
Página 112 - K« she was out of patience; it was as if they should tell her, that her little Harry below would not do what was proper for him; that just so, the king would sputter and make a bustle, but when they told him that it must be done, from the necessity of his service, he must do it, as little Harry must when she came down.
Página 95 - America; and, as to that they had cart loads of memorials to exchange with us whenever we pleased. Nov. 27. — King's birth-day kept. Lord Hillsborough began a conversation with me at court. He thought there must be some disturbance arise from the Pitt party; that, though they were so well placed, they were still uneasy ; that they neither liked others, nor were liked by them. I said, I could not conceive that they would stir. He said, Yes; for that Pitt's passion was ambition, not avarice — that...
Página 91 - ... herself, his thoughts seemed to be too many for his words. 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,...
Página 191 - 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 185 - ... 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 193 - must be men of efficiency and authority in the " House, a Secretary and a Chancellor of the " Exchequer at least, who should have access to " the Crown, habitual, frequent, familiar access, I " mean, that they may tell their own story, to do " themselves and their friends justice, and not be
Página 266 - ... it cannot but alarm all true Whigs to hear of schoolmasters, of very contrary principles, being thought of for preceptors ; and to see none but the friends and pupils of the late lord Bolingbroke intrusted with the education of a prince, whose family that very lord endeavoured by his measures to exclude, and by his writings to expel, from the throne of these kingdoms...
Página 169 - Such was the universal profligacy, such the character and conduct of the young people of distinction, that she was really afraid to have them near her children.