 | 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...Lordfhips have heard much of the ninth report of the Select Committee. That extraordinary performance has been in every body's hands. The ingenious author... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1786 - 376 pages
...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
...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
...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
...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
...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
...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."* The effect of this manifestation of the royal will was soon apparent. Upon the first division, the... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1837 - 516 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 472 pages
...England would no longer be worth a man of honour's wearing. "The king," he added, " will, in fact, take the diadem from his own head and place it on the head of Mr. Fox ! " In the debate Pitt, with the cold, sarcastic manner which was natural to him even in his early... | |
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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. The king will in fact take the diadem from his own head, and place it on the head of Mr. Fox. 
