 Constitution. I wish to see the Crown great and respectable, but if the present Bill should pass, it will be no longer worthy of a man of honour to wear.  Life of ... William Pitt - Page 147by Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Parliament proc - 1784 - 296 pages
...bill ihould país, it will be no longer worthy of a man of honour to wear. The King will, in faét, take the diadem from his own head, and place it on the head of Mr. Fox. Your Lordfhips have heard much of the ninth report of the Seledt Committee. That extraordinary performance... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1784 - 304 pages
...prefent bill fhould pafs, it will be no longer worthy of a man of honour to wear. The King will, in fa6t, take the diadem from his own head, and place it on the head of Mr. Fox. Your Lordfhips have heard much of the ninth report of the Select Committee. That extraordinary performance... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1786 - 376 pages
...refpectable; but if the prefent bill fhould pafs,it will be no longer worthy of a man of honour to wear. The King will, in fact, take the diadem from his own head, and place it on the head of Mr. Fox. Your Lordmips have heard much of the Ninth Report of the Select Committee. That extraordinary performance... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 546 pages
...respectable ; but, if the present bill should pass, it will be no longer worthy of a man of honour to wear. The king will in fact take the diadem from his own head, and place it on the head of Mr. Fox. Your lordships have heard much of the pth report of the Select Committee. That extraordinary performance... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1815 - 600 pages
...foundations the pretended necessity for the measure rested ; declared that " if it passed, the King would in fact take " the Diadem from his own head, and place " it on the head of Mr. Fox." In more intemperate language, scarcely befitting so dignified an Assembly, the Earl of Abingdon, a... | |
 | George Pretyman - Great Britain - 1821 - 592 pages
...respectable ; but if the present bill should pass, it will be no longer worthy of a man of honor to wear *. The king will, in fact, take the diadem from his own head, and place it on the head of Mr. Fox." The conversation ended with lord Temple's presenting a petition from the East India company, stating... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 428 pages
...Foundations, the pretended Necessity for the Measure rested ; declared that " if it passed, the " King would in Fact take the Diadem from " his own Head, and place it on the Head " of Mr. Fox." In more intemperate Language, scarcely befitting so dignified an Assembly, the Earl of Abingdon, a... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - Great Britain - 1837 - 694 pages
...law or fact, be left to the judge, 173. — Opposes the India bill.and declares, should it pass, that the king will, in fact, take the diadem from his own head and place it on the head of Mr. Fox, 237. — His intrigue with the Whigs, 362, 363. — Impudent proposition on the success of the Libel... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1837 - 516 pages
...foundations the pretended necessity for the measure rested ; declared that " if it passed, the king would in fact take the diadem from his own head, and place it on the head of Mr. Fox." In more intemperate language, scarcely befitting so dignified an assembly, the earl of Abingdon, a... | |
 | Edwin Sidney - Clergy - 1839 - 580 pages
...pronounced these last words, he looked full upon the Prince of Wales, 1 who was present, and then added, " The King will, in fact, take the diadem from his own head, and place it on the head of Mr. Fox." At length numerous bodies enjoying charters, conceiving them to be endangered by this attempt to destroy... | |
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