Excerpt from The First George in Hanover and England, Vol. 2 of 2 Even Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who wrote him down blockhead, was constrained to add that he was an honest blockhead. Honest he was according to his lights, and loyal, too It is the rule and maxim of my family to reward their friends, do justice to their enemies, and fear none but God, 1 he declared not long after he landed in England and of deviation from this rule and maxim he was never accused even by his bitterest detractors. Indeed, the rewards he ...
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Excerpt from The First George in Hanover and England, Vol. 2 of 2 Even Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who wrote him down blockhead, was constrained to add that he was an honest blockhead. Honest he was according to his lights, and loyal, too It is the rule and maxim of my family to reward their friends, do justice to their enemies, and fear none but God, 1 he declared not long after he landed in England and of deviation from this rule and maxim he was never accused even by his bitterest detractors. Indeed, the rewards he bestowed upon his servants formed the basis of complaints made against him. To his enemies, indeed, he was more than just, for he tempered justice with mercy, and not infrequently with generosity. When the Earl of Nithsdale made his escape from prison on the night before he was executed, the deputy-lieutenant of the Tower hastened to St. James's Palace to inform the King and to vindicate himself from any suspicion of negligence or treachery. George was entertaining a party of the nobility, but when he heard of this visitor, he had him brought in. The deputy-lieutenant began by saying that he had ill news to impart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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