Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne, Zväzok 2H. Colburn, 1839 |
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... late King of Spain , Charles the Se- cond , had been unjustly extended over the Spanish monarchy . Hitherto the achievements of Marlborough , however admirable , and compassed as they were with the loss of health and the destruction of ...
... late King of Spain , Charles the Se- cond , had been unjustly extended over the Spanish monarchy . Hitherto the achievements of Marlborough , however admirable , and compassed as they were with the loss of health and the destruction of ...
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... late reign , I cannot alter my opinion ; for though there was no violent thing done , everybody that will speak impartially must own that everything was leaning towards the Whigs , and whenever that is , I shall think the church ...
... late reign , I cannot alter my opinion ; for though there was no violent thing done , everybody that will speak impartially must own that everything was leaning towards the Whigs , and whenever that is , I shall think the church ...
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... reign , and the other would have been a Quaker , or any other religion that would have pleased the late King . " To the Duchess he calmly writes : - * Coxe , p . 515 . 1 " Tirlemont , Sept. 7 . " I received 72 MEMOIRS OF SARAH.
... reign , and the other would have been a Quaker , or any other religion that would have pleased the late King . " To the Duchess he calmly writes : - * Coxe , p . 515 . 1 " Tirlemont , Sept. 7 . " I received 72 MEMOIRS OF SARAH.
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... , entitled a " Continuation of the Review of a late Treatise , " & c . London , 1741 , p . 31 . MSS . B. M. Coxe Papers , vol . xliv . Conduct , p . 183 . Mrs. Masham could not assign any adequate reason for the DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH . 95.
... , entitled a " Continuation of the Review of a late Treatise , " & c . London , 1741 , p . 31 . MSS . B. M. Coxe Papers , vol . xliv . Conduct , p . 183 . Mrs. Masham could not assign any adequate reason for the DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH . 95.
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... late that she was supplanted ; and she was resolved that Mrs. Masham should quickly know that her in- jured benefactress was undeceived . She wrote , therefore , with her usual promptitude and sin- cerity , the following candid , but at ...
... late that she was supplanted ; and she was resolved that Mrs. Masham should quickly know that her in- jured benefactress was undeceived . She wrote , therefore , with her usual promptitude and sin- cerity , the following candid , but at ...
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Strana 38 - I have not time to say more, but to beg you will give my duty to the queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. M. Tallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest. The bearer, my aide-de-camp, Colonel Parke, will give her an account of what has passed. I shall do it in a day or two, by another more at large. — MARLBOROUGH...
Strana 35 - Germany, where it would be impossible for you to follow me; but love me as you now do, and no hurt can come to me. You have by this kindness preserved my quiet, and I believe my life; for till I had this letter I have been very indifferent of what should become of myself.
Strana 35 - Harwich out of my strong box and have burnt it; and if you will give me leave it will be a great pleasure to me to have it in my power to read this dear dear letter often, and that it may be found in my strong box when I am dead.
Strana 38 - Tallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest. The bearer, my aide-de-camp, Colonel Parke, will give her an account of what has passed. I shall do it in a day or two, by another more at large. — MARLBOROUGH."* The fate of the troops posted in Blenheim still remained undecided.
Strana 91 - ... jealousy. Particularly I remembered that a long while before this, being with the Queen (to whom I had gone very privately by a secret passage from my lodgings to the Bedchamber), on a sudden this woman, not knowing I was there, came in with the boldest and gayest air possible, but upon sight of me stopped, and immediately, changing her manner and making a most solemn curtsey, " Did your Majesty ring ?
Strana 50 - Queen might live till she did not know what she did, and be like a child in the hands of others...
Strana 163 - Queen the next morning, before she went to the trial, and told her that I had observed, the day before, that the Duchess of Somerset had refused to sit at the trial, which I did not know the meaning of, since her Majesty was pleased to order it, and...
Strana 443 - ... it will cost an immense sum to complete the causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted 33 rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the bridge ; but that which makes it so much prettier than London bridge is, that you may sit in six rooms and look out at a window into the high arch, while the coaches are driving over your head.
Strana 90 - And in less than a week's time I discovered, that my cousin was become an absolute favourite ; that the Queen herself was present at her marriage in Dr Arbuthnot's lodgings, at which time Her Majesty had called for a round sum out of the privy purse ; that Mrs Masham came often to the Queen, when the Prince was asleep, and was generally two hours every day in private with her. And I likewise then discovered beyond all dispute Mr Harley's correspondence and interest at court by means of this woman.
Strana 561 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.