The Public and Private Life of His Late...Majesty, George the Third: Embracing Its Most Memorable Incidents...and Tending to Illustrate the Causes, Progress, and Effects, of the Principal Political Events of His Glorious Reign. Comprising, Also, A...historical Memoir of the House of Brunswick...translated Expressly for this History, from the Celebrated Latin Work, Entitled Origines Guelphicae... |
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... arms under the con- duct of their king Riclotus , he hastened back to Germany , and maintained a glorious war with that fierce and uncivilized people , from 1159 to 1164. Having wholly subdued them , he turned his arms against the dukes ...
... arms under the con- duct of their king Riclotus , he hastened back to Germany , and maintained a glorious war with that fierce and uncivilized people , from 1159 to 1164. Having wholly subdued them , he turned his arms against the dukes ...
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... arms , had re- course to the basest treachery to alienate the friendship and good opinion of the emperor from him , and in which they eventually suc- ceeded . They likewise procured some of their emissaries to insinuate to Henry that ...
... arms , had re- course to the basest treachery to alienate the friendship and good opinion of the emperor from him , and in which they eventually suc- ceeded . They likewise procured some of their emissaries to insinuate to Henry that ...
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... arms , two of which he gave to his ne- phew , and kept three . Henry added them to his arms , and they are now borne by the house of Brunswick to this day . Henry died at Brunswick in 1195 , and in the 66th year of his age . He left ...
... arms , two of which he gave to his ne- phew , and kept three . Henry added them to his arms , and they are now borne by the house of Brunswick to this day . Henry died at Brunswick in 1195 , and in the 66th year of his age . He left ...
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... arms , and a battle ensued be- tween them near the Leine : Magnus , who was by no means deficient in courage , engaged Otho personally , and unsaddled him , on which he alighted from his horse with a design of taking him prisoner . The ...
... arms , and a battle ensued be- tween them near the Leine : Magnus , who was by no means deficient in courage , engaged Otho personally , and unsaddled him , on which he alighted from his horse with a design of taking him prisoner . The ...
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... Arms , proclaimed her late majesty's style and titles , viz . : Thus it has pleased Almighty God , to take out of this transitory life , to his divine mercy , the late most high , most mighty , and most excellent princess Caroline , by ...
... Arms , proclaimed her late majesty's style and titles , viz . : Thus it has pleased Almighty God , to take out of this transitory life , to his divine mercy , the late most high , most mighty , and most excellent princess Caroline , by ...
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Page 428 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
Page 315 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Page 111 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Page 313 - Johnson said he thought he had already done his part as a writer. "I should have thought so too, (said the King,) if you had not written so well.
Page 203 - Whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto Thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey Thy commandments, and also that by Thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Page 77 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood ; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties ; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our states, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
Page 231 - We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to return your Majesty our humble thanks for your most gracious speech from the throne.
Page 200 - It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O Lord [' Holy Father], Almighty, Everlasting God.
Page 77 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 532 - ... such as speak wrong. 15 I should utterly have fainted, but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 16 O tarry thou the LORD'S leisure ; be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart ; and put thou thy trust in the LORD.