The Royal Exile: Or, Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Her Majesty, Caroline, Queen Consort of Great Britain. A Full and Impartial History of the Charges Against Her, and Proceedings in Parliament, and the Important Events Since Her Return, with Original Letters, and Other Documents, Never Before Published, Volume 2

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Page 442 - Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. 5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Page 220 - ... nature has not made us suitable to each other. Tranquil and comfortable society is, however, in our power ; let our intercourse, therefore, be restricted to that, and I will distinctly subscribe to the condition which you required through lady Cholmondeley, that even in the event...
Page 289 - The other shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb...
Page 220 - Our inclinations are not in our power, nor should either of us be held answerable to the other because nature has not made us suitable to each other. Tranquil and comfortable society is, however, in our power ; let our intercourse, therefore, be restricted to that...
Page 66 - ... calculated to prejudge her case. The omission of her name in the liturgy ; the withholding the means of conveyance usually afforded to all the branches of the Royal Family ; the refusal even of an answer to her application for a place of residence in the royal mansions ; and the studied slight, both of English ministers abroad, and of the agents of all foreign powers over whom the English Government had any influence — must be viewed as measures designed to prejudice the world against her,...
Page 65 - ... committee. It is this day fourteen years since the first charges were brought forward against her majesty. Then, and upon every occasion during that long period, she has shown the utmost readiness to meet her accusers, and to court the fullest inquiry into her conduct. She now, also, desires an open investigation, in which she may see both the charges and the witnesses against her, — a privilege not denied the meanest subject of the realm.
Page 218 - Parliament, or the mode in which it may, at any time, be exercised ; but however strongly I may feel the necessity of submitting to its authority, the question, whether I will make myself a party to any measure proposed, must be decided by my own feelings and conscience, and by them alone. As a subject of the state...
Page 77 - ... as the purpose of it is to bind his conscience, every man of every religion should be bound by that form which he himself thinks will bind his own conscience most" (per Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice, Atcheson c.
Page 66 - In the face of the sovereign, the parliament, and the country, she solemnly protests against the formation of a secret tribunal to examine documents privately prepared by her adversaries, as a proceeding unknown to the law of the land, and a flagrant violation of all the principles of | justice...
Page 360 - I had to endure— all the insults that were wantonly heaped upon me,. from the day of your elevation to the regency to that of my departure for the...

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