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A History of England: During the Reign of George the Third - Page 9
by William Massey - 1855
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Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Volume 1

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 528 pages
...consideration by which alone I could have been of any use. The weight of irremoveable royal displeasure is a load too great to move under : it must crush...wish for nothing but a decent and innocent retreat, wherein I may no longer, by continuing in the public stream of promotion, for ever stick fast aground,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 66

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 pages
...consideration by which alone I could have been of any use. The weight of irremovable royal displeasure is a load too great to move under ; it must crush any man ; it has sunk and broken me. I succumb ; and wish for nothing but a decent and innocent retreat, wherein I may no longer,...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 40

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...consideration by which alone I could have been of any use. The weight of irremovable royal displeasure is a load too great to move under; it must crush any man; it has sunk and broken me. I succumb ; and wish for nothing but a decent and innocent retreat, wherein I may no longer,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 66

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 pages
...consideration by which alone I could have been of any use. The weight of irremovable royal displeasure is a load too great to move under ; it must crush any man ; it has Bunk and broken me. I succumb ; and wish for nothing but a decent and innocent retreat, wherein I may...
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The Pictorial History of England: Being, a History of the People ..., Volume 6

George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 540 pages
...consideration by which alone I could have been of any use. The weight of irremovable royal displeasure is a load too great to move under; it must crush any man; it has sunk and broken me. I succumb ; and wish tor nothing but a decent and innocent retreat, wherein I may no longer,...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of ..., Volume 4

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1844 - 608 pages
...irremoveable Royal displeasure is a load . " " too great to move under ; it must crash any 1754. " man ; it has sunk and broke me. I succumb, " and wish for nothing but a decent and innocent " retreat, wherein I may no longer — by continuing " in the public stream of promotion — for ever stick "...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle ...

Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pages
...CHAP. " weight of irremoveable Royal displeasure is a load reat £O move under ; it must crush any it has sunk and broke me. I succumb, " and wish for nothing but a decent and innocent " retreat, wherein I may no longer — by continuing " in the public stream of promotion — for ever stick "...
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Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Volume 178

1845 - 970 pages
...talent, should have so far condescended as to write thus : "The weight of irremovable royal displeasure is a load too great to move under ; it must crush...wish for nothing but a decent and innocent retreat, wherein I may no longer — by continuing in the public stream of promotion — for ever stick fast...
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Memoirs and Correspondence of George, Lord Lyttelton, from 1734 to ..., Volume 1

George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1845 - 422 pages
...consideration by which alone I could have been of any use. The weight of irremoveable royal displeasure is a load too great to move under: it must crush any...wish for nothing but a decent and innocent retreat, wherein I may no longer, by continuing in the public stream of promotion, for ever stick fast aground,...
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The Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke: With Selections from His ..., Volume 3

George Harris - 1847 - 620 pages
...consideration by which alone I could have been of any use. The weight of irremoveable royal displeasure is a load too great to move under ; it must crush...wish for nothing but a decent and innocent retreat, wherein I may no longer, by continuing in the public stream of promotion, for ever stick fast aground,...
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