Court Life Below Stairs: Or, London Under the First Georges, 1714-1760, Volume 4

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Hurst and Blackett, 1883
 

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Page 153 - From every latent foe, .. From the assassin's blow, God save the King. O'er him thine arm extend, For Britain's sake defend Our father, prince, and friend, God save the King.
Page 143 - I retain every sentiment of gratitude for the situation in which I find myself, as Princess of Wales, .enabled by your means to indulge in the free exercise of a virtue dear to my heart — I mean charity. It wiH be my duty, likewise to act upon another motive — that of giving an example of patience and resignation under every trial.
Page 142 - Our inclinations are not in our power, nor should either of us be held answerable to the other because nature has not made us suitable to each other. Tranquil and comfortable society is, however, in our power ; let our intercourse, therefore, be restricted to that...
Page 214 - ... fixed and unalterable determination not to meet the Princess of Wales upon any occasion, either in public or private.
Page 102 - Authentic Records of the Court of England for the last Seventy Years...
Page 293 - The King has the fullest confidence, that in consequence of this communication, the House of Lords will adopt that course of proceeding which the justice of the case, and the honour and dignity of his Majesty's crown, may require.
Page 215 - My daughter will, for the first time, appear in the splendour and publicity becoming the approaching nuptials of the presumptive heiress of this empire. This season your royal highness has chosen for treating me with fresh and unprovoked indignity ; and, of all his Majesty's subjects, I alone am prevented by your royal highness from appearing in my place, to partake of the general joy ; and am deprived of the indulgence in those feelings of pride and affection, permitted to every mother but me.
Page 143 - Cholmondeley, that even in the event of any accident happening to my daughter (which I trust Providence in its mercy will avert), I shall not infringe the terms of the restriction, by proposing at any period, a connection of a more particular nature.
Page 219 - I, who was a witness to the circumstance, know the princess acted just as she ought to have done. The fact was, the prince took the applause to himself ; and his friends, or rather his toadies (for they do not deserve the name of friends), to save him from the imputation of this ridiculous vanity, chose to say that he did the most beautiful and elegant...
Page 141 - Princess ; you removed the Princess twice in the week immediately preceding the day of her delivery from the place of my residence, in expectation, as you have voluntarily declared, of her labour...

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