 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 pages
...till its decline, and its final ruin. It is therefore of very great importance (provided the thing is not overdone) to contrive fuch an eftablifhment as...are not much the better for a court, a court will be 9 much much the better for them. I have therefore not attempted to reform any of the offices of honour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...as muft, almoft whether a prince will or not, bring into daily and hourly offices about his perlbn, a great number of his firft nobility ; and it is rather...have therefore not attempted to reform any of the pffices of honour about the king's perfon, r-lbid. KINGS (ADULATORY ADDRESSES TO). Dr. Price, in this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 452 pages
...decline and final ruin of the empire. It is therefore of very great importance (provided the thing is not overdone) to contrive fuch an eftablifhment as...of the offices of honour about the king's perfon. • i There are, indeed, two offices in his ftables which are finecures. By the change of manners,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 492 pages
...his first nobility ; and it is rather a useful prejudice that gives them a pride in such a servitude. Though they are not much the better for a court, a...reform any of the offices of honour about the king's person." What is this but saying that a king is an animal so incurably addicted to low company as generally... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...first nobility ; and it is rather an useful prejudice that gives them a pride in such a servitude. Though they are not much the better for a court, a...reform any of the offices of honour about the king's person. There are, indeed, two offices in his stables which are sinecures. By the change of manners,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 484 pages
...his first nobility ; and it is rather a useful prejudice that gives them a pride in such a servitude. Though they are not much the better for a court, a...reform any of the offices of honour about the king's person." What is this but saying that a king is an animal so incurably addicted to low company as generally... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...nobility, and it is rather an useful prejudice that gives them a pride in such a servitude. Though they art not much the better for a court, a court will be much...reform any of the offices of honour about the king's person. There are, indeed, two offices in his stables which are sinecures. By the change of manners,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1810 - 612 pages
...first no-. Li iky, and it is rather an useful prejudice that gives them a pride in such a servitude. Though they are not: much the better for a court,...reform any of the offices of honour about the king's person. ; There are, indeed, two offices in his stables which are sinecures. By the change of manners,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...that gives them a pride in such a servitude : " though they are not much the better for a Court, 5f a Court will be much the better for them. I " have,...reform any of ** the offices of honour about the King's person." What is all this but saying that a King is an animal so incurably addicted to low company,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1810 - 470 pages
..." nobility; and it is rather an useful prejudice " that gives them a pride in such a servitude : " though they are not much the better for a Court, " a Court will be much the better for them. I r " have, therefore, not attempted to reform any of " the offices of honour about the King's person."... | |
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... importance (provided the thing is not overdone) to contrive such an establishment as must, almost whether a prince will or not, bring into daily and hourly offices about his person a great number of his first nobility ; and it is rather an useful... 
