 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1867 - 672 pages
...approbation, at my proposal of raising twelve millions for him." Again, he writes on the following day — " For myself, I am the greatest cipher that...and scarce answers me upon my own Treasury affairs." * To a statesman — who for nearly half a century had not only filled the highest offices in the State,... | |
 | Walter Evelyn Manners - Anglo-French War, 1755-1763 - 1899 - 566 pages
...long been quietly driven. Newcastle soon began to complain : " For myself I am the greatest cypher, the young King is hardly civil to me, talks to me of nothing, and scarce answers me on Treasury matters." 4 The Duke of Devonshire, Lord Chamberlain, who also assumed an attitude of incipient... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1902 - 492 pages
...approbation, at my proposal of raising twelve millions for him." Again, he writes on the following day : " For myself, I am the greatest cipher that...and scarce answers me upon my own treasury affairs." To a statesman, who for nearly half a century had not only filled the highest offices in the state,... | |
 | Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways Earl of Ilchester - Great Britain - 1920 - 428 pages
...Council two days later.1 Newcastle too, even in these early days, had begun to realise his impotence. " I am the greatest cipher that ever appeared at court. The young King hardly civil to me ; talks to me of of colonel for their services at the battle of Kloster Kampen over... | |
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For myself, I am the greatest cipher that ever appeared at Court. The young King is hardly civil to me ; talks to me of nothing, and scarce answers me upon my own Treasury affairs... 