| David Hume - 1789 - 580 sivua
...over at once, or to maintain many, it was very difficult to imagine. To thefe reafonings Temple added the authority of Gourville, a Frenchman, for whom he knew the king had entertained a great efteem. . " A king of " England," faid Gourville, " who will be the nothing at all." The king heard,... | |
| David Hume - 1789 - 432 sivua
...many , it was very difficult to imagine. To thefe reafonings Temple added the authority ofGourville, a Frenchman, for whom, he knew, the king had entertained a great efteera. " A king of England, " faid Gourville , "who " will be the man of his pcnplc, is the greateft... | |
| William Butler - 1795 - 242 sivua
...A king of England, faid Gourville, a Frenchman, who will be the man of his people, is the greateft king in the world : but if he will be any thing more, HE 1s NOTHING AT ALL. By a fundamental law of the realm, the Britifh forereign muft profefs the PROTESTANT... | |
| William Russell - 1802 - 502 sivua
...knew Charles had great respect. " A king of England," said Gourville, on hearing of our dissensions, " who will be the " MAN of his people, is the greatest king in the world ; but if " he will be something more, by God I he is nothing at all." The king, who had listened with impatience at first,... | |
| William Cobbett - 1808 - 842 sivua
...over at once, or to maintain many, it was very difficult to imagine. To these reasonings Temple added the authority of Gourville, a Frenchman, for whom...king in the world . but if he will be any thing more, be is nothing at all." The king heard, at first, this discourse with some impatience ; but being a... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1808 - 740 sivua
...over at once, or to maintain many, it was very difficult to imagine. To these reasonings Temple added the authority of Gourville, a Frenchman, for whom he knew the king Imd entertained a great este'em : " A king of England," said Gourvillo, "who will be ' üie man of... | |
| Helvétius - 1810 - 536 sivua
...application always be made ? Happy the nation of whom M. Gourville could say, Their king, when he is the man of his people, is the greatest king in the world ; but when he would be more he is nothing. This saying, repeated by Sir William Temple, to Charles II. at... | |
| 1811 - 550 sivua
...governmeot, and ended with telling him what Gourville had once said to him, viz. " that a king of England who will be the man of his people, is the greatest...king in the world, but if he will be any thing more, byG — d, lie will become nothing at all." — The king, says he, heard m« throughout attentively,... | |
| William Butler - 1811 - 548 sivua
...A king of England, faid Gourville, a Frenchman, who will be the man of bis people, is the greateft king in the world ; but if he will be any thing more, * Seven inftancec, however, occur, from the time of William, the Norman to the prefent period, in which... | |
| Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - 598 sivua
...his majesty, in which, after blaming the dangerous schemes of the cabal, he added to his reasonings the authority of Gourville, a Frenchman, for whom...Gourville, " who will be the man of his people, is the great" est king in the world, but, if he will be any " thing more, he is nothing at all." Theking,... | |
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