The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington, Baron of Melcombe Regis: From March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761. With an Appendix, Containing Some Curious and Interesting Papers, which are Either Referred To, Or Alluded To, in the DiaryE. Easton, 1784 - 506 pages |
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Page 5 - He said that it became me to make him that offer, but it did not become him to accept it, consistent with his reputation, and therefore it must be in present. He then immediately added, that we must settle what was to happen in reversion, and said that he thought a peerage with the management of the house of lords, and the seals of...
Page 141 - ... such a one as might serve the king if he lived, and be steady to put the young king in the right way if the old one died: that he meant a thorough Whig parliament...
Page 491 - Wales, and intrusted with the most important secrets of government, must tend to alarm and disgust the friends of the present royal family, and to encourage the hopes and attempts of the Jacobites...
Page 298 - ... said, that is a hard word, my lord, I do not absolutely say that. There may be, possibly, reasons that my real friendship for him might make me acquiesce in ; I will not say so hard a word at once ; the case will speak itself, but it must come to a positive issue — and now, my lord, I must resume the offer your grace made of going immediately to the king, to demand a categorical answer, whether he be determined, after all I have done and spent for his service (of which he now reaps the utility),...
Page 356 - Why, said she, her mother is the most intriguing, meddling, and also the most satirical, sarcastical person in the world, and will always make mischief wherever she comes. Such a character would not do with George ; it would not only hurt him in his public, but make him uneasy in his private situation...
Page x - But it may be worth considering whether my method, or the common one, is the less injurious to the character of an author ; and whether the reader may not be more inclined to overlook or pardon those errors which he is previously instructed to expect, than he would be, if every page contradicted...
Page 388 - ... and an apartment in the palaces of Kensington and St James's. The answer was full of high gratitude for the allowance, but declining the apartment, on account of the mortification it would be to his mother ; though it is well known that he does not live with her, either in town or country.
Page 297 - He must think that 2000.£ a year would not make my fortune, with one foot in the grave: that as to rank, I had heard that the King was odd about titles: that I had as much respect for the Peerage as any man, but he could not but see, that, in my situation, without succession or collateral, a Peerage to me, was not worth the expence of new painting my coach...
Page 232 - Ravensworth was excessively alarmed at this with relation to Stone, on account of his office about the prince ; and thus the affair of Johnson was quite forgotten, and the episode became the principal part. There were many more conferences between Ravensworth and...
Page 1 - Ralph (whom he had often talked to about me) with a message from his royal highness, to offer me the full return of his favour, and to put the principal direction of his affairs into my hands. I told Mr Ralph that I desired...