A Biographical Memoir of His Late Royal Highness Frederick, Duke of York and Albany: With Numerous Anecdotes of the Royal Family, and Other Persons of High DistinctionH. Fisher, 1827 - 591 páginas |
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Página 573 - When the ear heard him, then it blessed him ; and when the eye saw him, it gave witness to him : because he delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came upon him ; and he caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 467 - I trust I acted in that respect as the genuine representative of the august person whose functions I was appointed to discharge ; and I have the satisfaction of knowing, that such was the opinion of persons, for whose judgment and honourable principles I entertain the highest respect.
Página 442 - During the season of repose, his time was devoted to the care and instruction of the Officer and Soldier ; in war, he courted service in every quarter of the globe. Regardless of personal considerations, he esteemed that to which his Country called him, the post of honour ; and by his undaunted spirit, and unconquerable perseverance, he pointed the way to victory.
Página 530 - It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting : for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter : for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning : but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Página 470 - ... that country, and of the immediate repeal of those civil disabilities under which so large a portion of his Majesty's subjects still labour on account of their religious opinions. To recommend to parliament this repeal, is the first advice which it would be our duty to offer to his Royal Highness...
Página 136 - In consequence of a dispute already known to the public, his royal highness the Duke of York, attended by Lord Rawdon ; and Lieutenant- Colonel Lenox, accompanied by the Earl of Winchelsea, met at Wimbledon Common. The ground was measured at twelve paces, and both parties were to fire at a signal agreed upon. The signal being given. LieutenantColonel Lenox fired, and the ball grazed his royal highness's curl ; the Duke of York did not fire. Lieutenant-Colonel Lenox observed that his royal highness...
Página 468 - ... when animated by a glorious spirit of resistance to a foreign yoke. In the critical situation of the war in the peninsula, I shall...
Página 580 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Página 470 - ... included in the gracious wish which it expresses, we owe it, in obedience and duty to his royal highness, to explain ourselves with frankness and sincerity. We beg leave most earnestly to assure his royal highness, that no sacrifices, except those of honour and duty, could appear to us too great to be made, for the purpose of healing the divisions of our country, and uniting both its government and its people.
Página 470 - Into the detail of these differences we are unwilling to enter; they embrace almost all the leading features of the present policy of the empire. But his Royal Highness has himself been pleased to advert to the late deliberations of Parliament on the affairs of Ireland.