 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 580 pages
...over at once, or to maintain many, it was very difficult to imagine. To thefe reafonings Temple added the authority of Gourville, a Frenchman, for whom he knew the king had entertained a great efteem. . " A king of " England," faid Gourville, " who will be the nothing at all." The king heard,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 432 pages
...many , it was very difficult to imagine. To thefe reafonings Temple added the authority ofGourville, a Frenchman, for whom, he knew, the king had entertained a great efteera. " A king of England, " faid Gourville , "who " will be the man of his pcnplc, is the greateft... | |
 | William Butler - 1795 - 242 pages
...A king of England, faid Gourville, a Frenchman, who will be the man of his people, is the greateft king in the world : but if he will be any thing more, HE 1s NOTHING AT ALL. By a fundamental law of the realm, the Britifh forereign muft profefs the PROTESTANT... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 502 pages
...knew Charles had great respect. " A king of England," said Gourville, on hearing of our dissensions, " who will be the " MAN of his people, is the greatest king in the world ; but if " he will be something more, by God I he is nothing at all." The king, who had listened with impatience at first,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1808 - 842 pages
...over at once, or to maintain many, it was very difficult to imagine. To these reasonings Temple added the authority of Gourville, a Frenchman, for whom...king in the world . but if he will be any thing more, be is nothing at all." The king heard, at first, this discourse with some impatience ; but being a... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1808 - 740 pages
...over at once, or to maintain many, it was very difficult to imagine. To these reasonings Temple added the authority of Gourville, a Frenchman, for whom he knew the king Imd entertained a great este'em : " A king of England," said Gourvillo, "who will be ' üie man of... | |
 | Helvétius - Education - 1810 - 536 pages
...application always be made ? Happy the nation of whom M. Gourville could say, Their king, when he is the man of his people, is the greatest king in the world ; but when he would be more he is nothing. This saying, repeated by Sir William Temple, to Charles II. at... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pages
...governmeot, and ended with telling him what Gourville had once said to him, viz. " that a king of England who will be the man of his people, is the greatest...king in the world, but if he will be any thing more, byG — d, lie will become nothing at all." — The king, says he, heard m« throughout attentively,... | |
 | William Butler - Arithmetic - 1811 - 548 pages
...A king of England, faid Gourville, a Frenchman, who will be the man of bis people, is the greateft king in the world ; but if he will be any thing more, * Seven inftancec, however, occur, from the time of William, the Norman to the prefent period, in which... | |
 | Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - Great Britain - 1812 - 598 pages
...his majesty, in which, after blaming the dangerous schemes of the cabal, he added to his reasonings the authority of Gourville, a Frenchman, for whom...Gourville, " who will be the man of his people, is the great" est king in the world, but, if he will be any " thing more, he is nothing at all." Theking,... | |
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who is willing to be the man of his people, is the greatest king in the world, but if he wishes to be more, by heaven he is nothing at all! 
