| John Nicholls - 1820 - 428 Seiten
...that devoted attachment which Mr. Edmund Burke ever paid him to the end of that Noble Lord's life. Let me pause to reflect on the transactions of that...declaring that the claim of the British Parliament was unconstitutional and illegal. This would most certainly have been the bolder measure ; but we must... | |
| William Wallace - 1831 - 330 Seiten
...continued to treat him with the most gracious cajolery. " Lord Rockingham," says the late Mr. Nicholls, " told me that the king never showed him such distinguished...after he had secretly determined to get rid of him." This popular administration lasted but a year. Among its historic distinctions, and perhaps the most... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1852 - 742 Seiten
...Majesty affected the utmost cordiality to the Premier. ' Lord Rockingham himself told me,' says Nicholls, 'that the King never showed him such distinguished...after he had secretly determined to get rid of him.'" In the midst of this apparent amity, Mr. Pitt was sent for; but it was evident, from sundry suspicious... | |
| George Thomas Keppel Earl of Albemarle - 1852 - 504 Seiten
...caressed by the King at Court beyond expression." "Lord Rockingham himself told me," says Nicholls, " that the King never showed him such distinguished...after he had secretly determined to get rid of him." A message from the Crown was brought down to the Commons on the 3rd of June, by the Chancellor of the... | |
| John Forster - 1854 - 572 Seiten
...ministry was determined. Bockingham Memoirs, i. 346. "Lord Rockingham himself told me," says Xicholls, " that the king never showed him such distinguished...after he had secretly determined to get rid of him." BsccHleetiom and Refleetions during Ihc Reign of Georgf III, \. 22 (a book well worth reading for illustrations... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 304 Seiten
...ministry was determined. — Raekingham Memoirs, i. 346. "Lord Rockingham himself told me," says Nicholls, "that the King never showed him such distinguished...after he had secretly determined to get rid of him." — Recollections and Reflections during the Reign of George HI. i. 22 (a book well worth reading for... | |
| Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 436 Seiten
...to set them quarrelling between themselves.' Rockingham, in speaking of the Government of 1766, said that the King never showed him such distinguished...after he had secretly determined to get rid of him. And in this case at all events Lord Hertford was justified in telling Walpole that 'indeed people do... | |
| Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 436 Seiten
...to set them quarrelling between themselves.' Rockingham, in speaking of the Government of 1766, said that the King never showed him such distinguished...after he had secretly determined to get rid of him. And in this case at all events Lord Hertford was justified in telling Walpole that ' indeed people... | |
| James Anson Farrer - 1917 - 370 Seiten
...intriguing with different statesmen went on, and in July 1766 Rockingham resigned. He told Nicholls that the King \ never showed him such distinguished marks of kindness as after he had secretly resolved to remove him. (Rockingham > Memoirs, i. 846.) It is to expect a miracle to expect a constitutional... | |
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