The Grenville Papers: Being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, K.G., and the Right Hon: George Grenville, Their Friends and Contemporaries, Volume 4 |
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Page 443 - ... majesty to consider the late proceedings of the house of commons. By depriving a subject of his birthright they have attributed to their own vote an authority equal to an act of the whole legislature ; and, though perhaps not with the same motives, have strictly followed the example of the long parliament, which first declared the regal office useless, and soon after, with as little ceremony, dissolved the house of lords. The same pretended power which robs an English subject of his birthright,...
Page 330 - Horace Walpole predicted that he would turn the heads of the Virginians in one way or other. " If his graces do not captivate them he will enrage them to fury ; for I take all his douceur to be enamelled on iron.
Page 243 - I hope, make a short one not unworthy your attention. I have an opportunity of knowing something, and you may depend on my veracity. During your absence from administration, it is well known that not one of the ministers has either adhered to you with firmness, or supported, with any degree of steadiness, those principles, on which you engaged in the King's service.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Grenville Papers: Being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, K.G., and the Right Hon: George Grenville, Their Friends and Contemporaries, Volume 4 The Grenville Papers: Being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, K.G., and the Right Hon: George Grenville, Their Friends and Contemporaries, Earl Richard Grenville-Temple Temple |
| Author | Earl Richard Grenville-Temple Temple |
| Editor | William James Smith |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1853 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 23 Aug 2007 |
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