Letters and Correspondence, Public and Private, of the Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Visc. Bolingbroke: During the Time He was Secretary of State to Queen Anne; with State Papers, Explanatory Notes, and a Translation of the Foreign Letters, &c, Volume 2

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G. G. & J. Robinson, 1798
 

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Page 428 - Canaries, julqu'à la ligne équinoxiale ou l'équateur ; & enfin de cinq mois dans tous les autres endroits du monde fans aucune exception ni autre dininftion plus particulière de temps & de lieux.
Page 386 - co serait perdre entièrement tout le fruit d'une négociation conduite » heureusement jusqu'au point de la conclusion, que d'insister sur » la ratification des États du royaume. Les États, en France, ne se » mêlent point de ce qui regarde la succession à la couronne; ils » n'ont le pouvoir ni de faire ni d'abroger les lois. Quand les Rois » les convoquent, on marque dans les lettres que c'est pour ouïr les » plaintes des bons et fidèles sujets, et pour chercher des remèdes •» aux...
Page 223 - Suivant ces lois, le prince le plus proche de la couronne en est héritier nécessaire;.... il succède non comme héritier mais comme le monarque du royaume... par le seul droit de sa naissance. Il n'est redevable de la couronne, ni au testament de son prédécesseur, ni à aucun édit, ni à aucun décret, ni enfin à la libéralité de personne, mais à la loi.
Page 172 - French maitre d'hotel and his English valet. Bolingbroke, writing in 1712, says, "I have spoken to Mr. Breton about the proposition of taking Mr. Caesar as his chaplain to Berlin, to which he is enough inclined; but, as he tells me, this gentleman is willing to go only for six months on the whole, and expects £150 for his...
Page 482 - ... in parliament; and, since the queen wanted me below stairs in the last session, she could do no less than make me a viscount, or I must have come in the rear of several whom I was not born to follow. Thus far there seems to be nothing done for my sake, or as a mark of favour to me in particular; and yet, farther her majesty would not go without a force which never shall be used by me.
Page 71 - Queen's measures know, as well as we do, who pursue them, that the war is become impracticable, that the end which they pretend to aim at is chimerical, and that they ruin their country by driving on this vain, gaudy scheme, which has so many years dazzled our eyes : but they venture this, and would sacrifice more, if more can be sacrificed, in order to regain dominion, which nothing can give, at least secure in their hands, but national distress. The true, real, genuine strength of Britain belongs...
Page 482 - I will do to no one else, that my promotion was a mortification to me. In the House of Commons I may say that I was at the head of business, and I must have continued so whether I had been in court or out of court. There was, therefore, nothing to flatter my ambition in removing me from thence, but giving me the title which had been many years in my family, and which reverted to the Crown about a year ago, by the death of the last of the elder house.
Page 165 - Bolingbroke speaking of this debate on Marlborough says : "What passed on Thursday in the House of Commons, will, I hope, show people abroad, as well as at home, that no merit, no grandeur, no riches can excuse, or save any one, who sets himself up in Some time after, Mr.
Page 300 - It would be a leal and a very great mortification to me, if I imagined your Lordship had entertained the least doubt of that friendship which I profess to have for you ; my habits at Court have neither taught me to show what I do not feel, nor to hide what I do ; and my love and my hate are so far from not appearing in my trords and actions, that they generally sit in my very face.
Page 94 - Briftol, keeper of our privy feal, dean of Windfor, and regifter of our moft noble Order of the Garter ; and of our right trufty and right well-beloved coufin and counfellor Thomas Earl of Straffbrd...

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