 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 266 pages
...and dangerous as any priests out of Eome, and he routed them both. He gave Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace, and ease, and freedom ; the...wheat at five and six and twenty shillings a quarter. It was lucky for us that our first Georges were not more hisrh-minded men ; especially fortunate that... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 858 pages
...and dangerous as any priests out of Rome, and he routed them both. He gave Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace, and ease, and freedom ; the...wheat at five and six and twenty shillings a quarter. It was lucky for us that our first Georges were not more high-minded men ; especially fortunate that... | |
 | 1860 - 1002 pages
...and dangerous as any priests out of Rome, and he routed them both. He gare Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace, and ease, and freedom ; the...wheat at five and six and twenty shillings a quarter. It was lucky for us that our first Georges were not more high-minded men ; especially fortunate that... | |
 | 1868 - 548 pages
...governed it. ... He gave Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace, VOL. XLIX. — NO. XCVIII. 2 K ease, and freedom ; the three per cents, nearly at...; and wheat at five and six and twenty shillings a quarter."i It seems a bold thing to say that since this " tipsy cynic " no statesman, in the true sense... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...and dangerous as any priests out of Rome, and he routed them both. He gave Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace, and ease, and freedom ; the...wheat at five and six and twenty shillings a quarter. It was lucky for us that our first Georges were not more highminded men ; especially fortunate that... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pages
...and dangerous as any priests out of Rome, and he routed them both. He gave Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace, and ease, and freedom ; the...wheat at five and six and twenty shillings a quarter. It was lucky for us that our first Georges were not more highminded men ; especially fortunate that... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pages
...and dangerous as any priests out of Rome, and he routed them both. He gave Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace, and ease, and freedom ; the...wheat at five and six and twenty shillings a quarter. It was lucky for us that our first Georges were not more highminded men ; especially fortunate that... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...and dangerous as any priests out of Rome, and he routed them both. He gave Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace, and ease, and freedom ; the...wheat at five and six and twenty shillings a quarter. It was lucky for us that our first Georges were not more highminded men ; especially fortunate that... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1871 - 832 pages
...and dangerous as any priests out of Rome; and he routed them both. He gave Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace, and ease, and freedom ; the...wheat at five and six and twenty shillings a quarter." — THACKERAY: George the Second, See, also, Lord Mahon's Hist, of Eng., i. 1836, 62, (and Lon. Quar.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1871 - 836 pages
...priests out of Rome; and he routed them both. Ho gave Englishmen no conquests, but ho gave; them pence, and ease, and freedom; the three per cents nearly at par, and wheat at five and six and twenty Bhillings a quarter." — THACKERAT: George tht Second. Seo, also, Lord Mahon's Hist, of Еп£., i.... | |
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Oxford as doubledealing and dangerous as any priests out of Rome, and he routed them both. He gave Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace, and ease, and freedom ; the three per cents, nearly at par ; and wheat at five and six and twenty shillings... 
