 | Margaret Anna Cusack - 1870 - 488 pages
...were but too true, for all retractation he would only say : ' I am accused of having said that I think the lord lieutenant and the majority of this house are the worst subjects the king has. I said so ; 'tis true ; and I am sorry for 'it.' On May 27, 1782, when the Irish houses met, after... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - British - 1874 - 546 pages
...Commons rose and said : — ' I give my most hearty disapprobation of the address of thanks, for I think that the Lord- Lieutenant and the majority of this House are the worst subjects the King has.' Preliminary movements over, the great questions of CHAP. the session now approached. In the first week... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - British - 1874 - 556 pages
...I give my most hearty disapprobation of the address of thanks, for I think that the Lord-Lieutenant and the majority of this House are the worst subjects the King has." Cries of " To the bar ! " " To the bar ! " " Take down his words," brought an explanation which was... | |
 | Mary Francis Cusack - Ireland - 1875 - 742 pages
...Edward FitzGerald denounced the conduct of the House in these evermemorable words : " I do think, sir, that the Lord Lieutenant and the majority of this House are the worst subjects the King has f and when a storm arose, the more violent from consciousness that his words were but too true, for... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - World history - 1884 - 1180 pages
...the conduct of the house in these ever-memorable words : " I do think, sir, that the lord-lieutenant and the majority of this house are the worst subjects the king has ; " and when a storm arose, the more violent from consciousness. that his words were but too true,... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - Great Britain - 1886 - 144 pages
...or the Emmets would probably have done on such an occasion, he exclaimed with abrupt vehemence, " I think that the Lord Lieutenant and the majority of this House are the worse subjects the King hasf " ; * Life of Fitzgerald, vol. ii. f Froude's English in Ireland, vol.... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Ireland - 1888 - 472 pages
...opposed that measure. He said with much vehemence : ' I give my most hearty disapprobation to this address, for I do think that the Lord- Lieutenant...of this House are the worst subjects the King has.' A storm of no ordinary violence was the result. The virtuous ministerial party, the constitutional... | |
 | 1891 - 488 pages
...up, and with great energy of manner exclaimed, " Sir, I give my most hearty disapprobation to this address, for I do think that the Lord Lieutenant and...of this House are the worst subjects the King has." This was followed by cries of " to the bar," and " take down his words," while the House was cleared,... | |
 | Literature - 1892 - 848 pages
...up, and with great energy of manner exclaimed : " Sir, I give my most hearty disapprobation to this address, for I do think that the lord lieutenant and...of this House are the worst subjects the king has." This was followed by cries of "to the bar," and " take down" his words," while the House was cleared,... | |
 | Ida Ashworth Taylor - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1903 - 434 pages
...Grattan, to give " his most hearty disapprobation" to the proposed address; "for I do think," he added, " that the Lord Lieutenant and the majority of this House are the worst subjects the King has." So far the incident rests upon the authority of the Parliamentary record. At this stage, however, the... | |
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I give my most hearty disapprobation to that address, for I do think that the lord lieutenant and the majority of this house, are the worst subjects the king has. 
