Memoirs of a Trait in the Character of George III. of These United Kingdoms: Authenticated by Official Papers and Private Letters in Possession of the Author: with an Appendix of Illustrative Tracts, &c.; Abridged from the Original Work in ManuscriptW. Edwards, 1835 - 256 pàgines |
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Pàgina iv
... opinion of the only man that fully understood the subject , and to whom the highest gratification that could have been named , after achieving the discovery , would have been to see the Timekeepers brought into general use . The ...
... opinion of the only man that fully understood the subject , and to whom the highest gratification that could have been named , after achieving the discovery , would have been to see the Timekeepers brought into general use . The ...
Pàgina viii
... must have been either employed , or materially assisted by the Board , or by some patron who kept behind the scenes : for it was never said that his pecuniary of another , more likely , in the opinion of viii PREFACE .
... must have been either employed , or materially assisted by the Board , or by some patron who kept behind the scenes : for it was never said that his pecuniary of another , more likely , in the opinion of viii PREFACE .
Pàgina ix
... opinion of the great Newton , to achieve the discovery sought . Pro- fessors of Astronomy from Oxford and Cambridge decided without appeal , while the Mechanics were not represented at the Board ; and unless for a season , by some ...
... opinion of the great Newton , to achieve the discovery sought . Pro- fessors of Astronomy from Oxford and Cambridge decided without appeal , while the Mechanics were not represented at the Board ; and unless for a season , by some ...
Pàgina xv
... opinion , but never was this attribute of ill - informed people more extravagantly exemplified than in the northern Aristocrat ; who could not possibly conceive how any men with a grain of sense could dissent from the profundity of his ...
... opinion , but never was this attribute of ill - informed people more extravagantly exemplified than in the northern Aristocrat ; who could not possibly conceive how any men with a grain of sense could dissent from the profundity of his ...
Pàgina xvi
... opinion with him . ” Of our existing and conspicuous public men , the scrutiny need not be carried far to find Sir Andrew Agnew classes , in this particular , with the Aristocrat of Caledon , brought for- ward . For the Editor of a ...
... opinion with him . ” Of our existing and conspicuous public men , the scrutiny need not be carried far to find Sir Andrew Agnew classes , in this particular , with the Aristocrat of Caledon , brought for- ward . For the Editor of a ...
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12th of Queen Act of Parliament Admiral answer appears Astronomer Royal attended Author Barbadoes Board of Longitude called Candidate Captain character chronometry circumstance Claimant Clock Commissioners of Longitude common conduct consequence Croker degree desired discovery Earl of Morton enquired experiments Father favour finding the Longitude Flamstead genius Gentlemen George 3rd George Graham given Graham honour House injury Invention Inventor Jamaica James Watt John Harrison judge Junius King knew labour learned letter Longitude at sea Lord Morton Lord North Lord Sandwich Lordship Lunar party machine Majesty Maskelyne Mechanician mechanics merit minutes Monarch Moon Mudge never Nevil Maskelyne observations occasion opinion pamphlet Parliament passed person philosopher Prince Professor purpose Queen Anne question reader reason remark respect reward scientific sentiment ship Sir John Sovereign success supposed thing thought Timekeeper tion took trial voyage Watch watchmaker wholly William Harrison
Passatges populars
Pàgina 217 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Pàgina 125 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Pàgina 77 - it was composed for me by Dr. Johnson." " I thought so," answered the King; "it is excellent — and the better for being void of flattery, which I hate." When Johnson himself had an interview with the King in the royal library, his Majesty's acquaintance with English history appeared, in his observations upon Lord Lyttleton's Life of Henry the Second, which had been just published.
Pàgina 75 - Accustomed to the language of courtiers, you measure their affections by the vehemence of their expressions ; and, when they only praise you indirectly, you admire their sincerity. But this is not a time to trifle with your fortune. They deceive you, sir, who tell you that you have many friends whose affections are founded upon a principle of personal attachment. The first foundation of friendship is not the power of conferring...
Pàgina 58 - ... which he sometimes swallowed as he walked up and down, previous to getting into his Carriage, in order to return into the country. His understanding, solid and sedate, qualified him admirably for business, though it was* neither of a brilliant, lively, nor imposing description. But his manner did...
Pàgina 90 - Earth takes to perform her's; it is only required that it should invariably perform it iri some known time, and then the constant difference between the length of the one revolution and the other, will appear as so much daily gained or lost by the Watch, which constant gain or loss, is called the rate of its going, and which being added to or deducted from...
Pàgina 217 - DAUGHTER of JOVE, relentless Power, Thou Tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour, The Bad affright, afflict the Best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone.
Pàgina 63 - When a rich man speaketh, every man holdeth his tongue, and look, what he saith, they extol it to the clouds : but if the poor man speak, they say, What fellow is this? and if he stumble, they will help to overthrow him.
Pàgina 236 - ... June, 1824, that a public meeting was held, at which the Earl of Liverpool presided, supported by such men as Brougham, Mackintosh, and Wilberforce, for the purpose of entering into a subscription to defray the expenses of the erection of a monument to the memory of the father of the steam-engine. The first words uttered by the prime minister of the British empire, surrounded by the most distinguished personages of the government and the country, either by their learning or their eloquence, were...