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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WALPO LIANA. Btrnii and Flenry. de Bernis, when only an Abbs, fblicited Cardinal Fleurjr, then four-fcore, for fome preferment. Fleury told him fairly, he (hould never have any thing in his time: Beruis replied, Monfelgneur jattendrai . Countefs of Coventry. Towards the clofe of the reign of George the Second, the beautiful Countefs of Coventry talking to him on fhows, and thinking only of the figure fhe herfelf fhould make in a procef- fion, told him, the fight Ihe wifhed moft to fee was a coronation. My Lord, I fhall uu/c. The Clerical Gown. Mr. Suckling, a clergyman of Norfolk, having a quarrel with a neighbouring gentleman, who infulted him, and at lad told him, Doctor, your gown is your protection; replied, It may be mine, but it fhall not be your's; pulled it off, and thrafhed the aggreflbr. Patriotifm of Jillef. Depend upon it, my dear Sir, that Wilkes was in the pay of France, during the Wilkes and liberty days. Calling one day on the French minifter, I obferved a book on his table, with Wilkes's name in the firft leaf. This led to a converfation, which convinced me. Other circumflances, too long and minute to be repeated, ftrengthened, if neceffary, that con- viflion. I am as fure of it, as of any fal I know. Wilkes at firft cringed to Lord Bute The embafly to Conftantinople was the object. of his ambition. It was refufed?and you know what followed. Bute's Mmijirj. Lord Bute was my fchoolfellow. He was a man of tafte and fcience, and I do believe his intentions were good. He wifhed to blend and unite all parties. The tories were willing to come in for a Jhare of power, after having been fo long excluded?lut the whigs were not willing to grant that fhare. Power is anintoxicating draught; the more a man has, the more he defire...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217807432 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217807437 |
| Weight | 0.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.39 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 170 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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