 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 562 pages
...said to Mr. Adams, on his presentation as first minister plenipotentiary from the United States, " I have done nothing in the late contest but what I thought myself bound to do." He never could forget his mother's early precept: " George, be king! " and so capricious... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1861 - 644 pages
...replied king George, " I wish you to believe, and that it may ba understood iu Avnarica, that I havedone nothing in the late contest but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do by the duty which I ow I to my people. I will l>3 v.iry frank with you. I was the List to consent to la; ijparation; but,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 662 pages
...and more to your majesty's royal benevolence." " Sir," replied king George, " I wish you to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have...do by the duty which I owed to my people. I •will ba very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation ; but, the separation having been... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 pages
...that I am very glad the choice has fallen upon you to be their Minister. I wish you ? sir, to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have...people. I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation ; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 548 pages
...that I am very glad the choice has fallen upon you to be their Minister. I wish you, sir, to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have...owed to my people. I will be very frank with you. I WHS the last to consent to the separation ; but the separation having been made, and having become... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 pages
...am very glad that the choice has fallen upon you as their minister. But I wish you, sir, to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have...do by the duty which I owed to my people. I will be frank with you. I was the last to conform to the separation ; but the separation having been made,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 pages
...am very glad that the choice has fallen upon you as their minister. But I wish you, sir, to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have...bound to do by the duty which I owed to my people. 1 will be frank with you. I was the last to conform to the separation ; but the separation having been... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1894 - 1204 pages
...Majesty's royal benevolence." "Sir," said George III, in answer, "I wish you to believe, and that it maybe understood in America, that I have done nothing in...to my people. I will be very frank with you. I was tho last to cousent to the separation; but, the separation having been made, and having become inevitable,... | |
 | Duncan Campbell - 1873 - 566 pages
...Third, presented himself at a levee, the King gave utterance to the following noble sentiments : " I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation ; but, the separation having been made, and Halifax, died suddenly in 1796,... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1874 - 660 pages
...their Minister. I wish you, sir, to believe, and tlial it may be understood in America, that I hav? done nothing in the late contest but what I thought...do by the duty which I owed to my people. I •will bt very frank with you. I was the hist to consent to 498 ADAMS'S INTERVIEW WITH THE KING. the separation... | |
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I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation ; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as... 
