 | English literature - 1818 - 590 pages
...under a republic. His majesty still pursued the subject. I thought myself insulted, and firmly said, " Sir, I look upon the tyranny of any one man to be an intolerable evil, and on the tyranny of a hundred to be a hundred times as bad."' ! Yet notwithstanding this did the modest... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1818 - 574 pages
...under a republic. His majesty still pursued the subject. I thought myself insulted, and firmly said, " Sir, I look upon the tyranny of any one man to be an intolerable evil, and on the tyranny of • hundred to be a hundred times as bad."' ! Yet notwithstanding this did the modest... | |
 | 1818 - 860 pages
...n republic.' His Majesty still pursued the subject ; I thought myself insulted, and firmly said, ' Sir, I look upon the tyranny of any one man to be ал intolerable evil, and upon the tyranny of an hundred to be an hundred times as bad.' The King... | |
 | John Galt - Great Britain - 1824 - 498 pages
...tinder a republic. His Majesty still pursued the subject: I thought myself insulted, and firmly said, ' Sir, I look' upon the tyranny of any one man to be an intolerable evil, and upon the tyranny of one hundred to be one hundred ' times as bad.' The King went off. His Majesty, I doubt not, had given... | |
 | 1829 - 838 pages
...said, " there now, you hear what he says of a republic." I thought myself insulted, and firmly said, " Sir, I look upon the tyranny of any one man to be an intolerable evil, and upon the tyranny of a hundred, to be a hundred times as bad." The king went off. The reign of George the Third was the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...a republic. His majesty still pursued the aubjcct ; I thought myself insulted, and firmly »aid, ' Sir, I look upon the tyranny of any one man to be an intolerable evil, and upon the tyranny of one hundred, to be one hundred times as bad.' The king went off." What his majesty calls " most improper"... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...under a Republic. His Majesty still pursued the subject: I thought myself insulted, and firmly said, ' Sir, I look upon the tyranny of any one man to be an intolerable evil, and upon the tyranny of one hundred, to be one hundred tiir.es as bad.' The King went off." What his Majesty calls " most improper... | |
 | 1818 - 586 pages
...under a republic. His majesty still pursued the subject. I thought myself insulted, and firmly said, " Sir, I look upon the tyranny of any one man to be an intolerable evil, and on the tyranny of a hundred to be a hundred times as bad !" ' Yet notwithstanding this did the modest... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 506 pages
...under a republic. His Majesty still pursued the subject. I thought myself insulted, and firmly said, ' Sir, I look upon the tyranny of any one man to be an intolerable evil, and upon the tyranny of a hundred to be a hundred times as bad.' The king went off. His Majesty, I doubt not, had given credit... | |
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The king gave me, as he thought, another blow about a republic. I answered that I could not live under a republic. His Majesty still pursued the subject. I thought myself insulted, and firmly said, ' Sir, I look upon the tyranny of any one man to be an... 