 | 1867 - 510 pages
...King replied that the Queen's choice had been for years his conviction of what would be best for her happiness:— ' In your position, which may and will...could not exist without having a happy and agreeable inUrieur. And I am much deceived (which I think 1 am not) or you will find in Albert just the very... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 850 pages
...to her without knowing to whom he wrote when, upon her announcement of the coming marriae, he said: In your position, which may and will perhaps become...could not EXIST without having a happy and agreeable intérieur. And I am much deceived (which I think I am not) or you will find in Albert just the very... | |
 | Charles Grey (hon.) - 1867 - 522 pages
...Queen's letter of the 1 5th :— " October 24, 1839. " sion, almost the feeling of old Simeon : ' Now " ' lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.' " Your...what might and would be " best for your happiness ; and just because I " was convinced of it, and knew how strangely " fate often changes what one tries... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1867 - 698 pages
...than your dear letter. I had, when I learnt your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon, " Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." Your choice...what might and would be best for your happiness.' Throughout the English nation there was the same full approval of the step the Queen was taking. On... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Princes - 1867 - 392 pages
...than your dear letter. I had, when I learnt your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon : 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.' Your choice...of what might and would be best for your happiness ; and just because I was convinced of it, and knew how strangely fate often changes what one tries... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...than your dear letter. I had, when I learnt your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon : ' Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.' Your choice...of what might and would be best for your happiness ; and just because I was convinced of it, and knew how strangely fate often changes what one tries... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Princes - 1867 - 404 pages
...than your dear letter. I had, wheri I learnt your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon: 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.' Your choice...of what might and would be best for your happiness ; and just because I was convinced of it, and knew how strangely fate often changes what one tries... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Princes - 1868 - 410 pages
...than your dear letter. I had, when I learnt your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon: ' Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.' Your choice...of what might and would be best for your happiness; and just because I was convinced of it, and knew how strangely fate often changes what one tries to... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 374 pages
...thy servant depart * Schiller's ' Lied von der Glocke,' always a special favourite with the Prince. in peace." Your choice has been for these last years...what might and would be best for your happiness.' Throughout the English nation there was the same full approval of the step the Queen was taking. On... | |
 | sir Theodore Martin - 1875 - 576 pages
...writes (24th October, 1839), 'when I learned your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon : " Now lettest Thou thy servant depart in peace." Your choice...which may and will perhaps become in future even more 40 BETROTHAL. 1839 difficult in a political point of view, you could not exist without having a happy... | |
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Your choice has been for these last years my conviction of what might and would be best for your happiness... 
