Entries Tagged as 'George II'

January 25, 2008

Item of the Day: Smollett’s History of England (1766)

Full Title:  Continuation of the Complete History of England by T[obias] Smollett, M. D. [In two volumes]  Volume the First.  London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row.  MDCCLXVI.
 [A continuation of David Hume's History of England]
George II.
The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, however unstable or inglorious it might appear to those few who understood the interests, [...]

June 1, 2007

Item of the Day: Georgius Rex (c. 1737)

GEORGIUS REX
THE Professions you have lately made in your Letters, of your particular Regard to Me, are so contradictory to your Actions, that I cannot suffer My self to be imposed upon by them. You know very well, you did not give the least Intimation t Me, or to the Queen, that the Princess was [...]

May 21, 2007

Item of the Day: Horace Walpole on the Death and Funeral of George II from Walpole’s Private Correspondence (1760)

Full Title:  Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Now First Collected.  In Four Volumes.  vol. II. 1756-1764.  London:  Printed for Rodwell and Martin, Bond-Street; and Colburn and Co., Conduit-Street. 1820.
To the EARL of STRAFFORD.
Arlington-street, October 26, 1760.
My Dear Lord,
I beg your pardon for so long a silence in the late reign; I knew nothing [...]