| William Robertson - Europe - 1769 - 536 pages
...growing infirmities admenifhed him to retire, nor was he fo fond of reigning, as to retain the fceptre in an impotent hand, which was no longer able to protect his ^fubje&s, or to render them happy ; that inftead of a fovereign worn out with .difeafes, and fcarce... | |
| William Robertson - Europe - 1777 - 548 pages
...growing infirmities admonifhed him to retire ; nor was he fo fond of reigning, as to retain the fceptre in an impotent hand, which was no longer able to protect his fubjeds, or to render them happy ; that inflead of a fovereign worn out with difeafes, and fcarcely... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...growing infirmities admonifhed fcim to retire ; nor was he fo fond of reigning as to retain the fceptre in an impotent hand, which was no longer able to protect his fuhjelte, or to render them happy 'that, inile.'id of a fovereign worn oBt with difeafes an&fearcely... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...growing infirmities admoniihed him to retire ; nor was he fo fond of reigning, as to retain the fceptre in an impotent hand, which was no longer able to protect his fubjech, or to render them happy : that, inftead of a fovereign worn out with difeafes, and fcarcely... | |
| Charles John Ann Hereford, John Adams - Spain - 1793 - 520 pages
...growing infirmities admonifhed him to retire ; nor was he fo fond of reigning as to retain the fceptre in an impotent hand, which was no longer able to protect his fubjects, or to render them happy. That inftead of a fovereign worn out with difeafes, he gave them... | |
| Devout monitor - 1795 - 282 pages
...growing infirmities admonifhe<l him to retire ; nor was he fo fond of reigning, as to retain the feeptre in an impotent hand, which was no longer able to protect his fubjects, or to render them happy 3 that, initead of a Jbvereign worn out with di(ea(es, and fcarceiy... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...growing infirmities admonifhed him to retire; nor was he fo fond of reigning, as to retain the fceptre in an impotent hand, which was no longer able to protect his fubjects, or to render them happy ; that inflead of a fovereign worn out with difeafes, and fcarcely... | |
| Solomon Hodgson - Conduct of life - 1806 - 362 pages
...growing infirmities admonifhed him to retire ; nor was he fo fond of reigning, as to 'retain the fceptre in an impotent hand, which was no longer able to protect his fubjects, or to render them happy : That, inftead of a fovereign worn out with difeafes, and fcarcely... | |
| Conduct of life - 1806 - 360 pages
...growing infirmities admoniflied him to retire; nor was he fo fond of reigning, as to retain the fceptre in an impotent hand, which was no longer able to protect his fubjects, or to render them happy: That, inftead of a fovereign worn out with difeafes, and fcarcely... | |
| William Robertson - Europe - 1809 - 414 pages
...that now when his health was broken, and his vigour exhausted by the rage of an incurable distemper, his growing infirmities admonished him to retire,...which was no longer able to protect his subjects^ or to secure to them the happiness which he wished they should enjoy ; that instead of a sovereign... | |
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