| Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1831 - 542 pages
...a certain person as member for the borough of Appleby, in Westmoreland : — " I have been'bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but...be dictated to by a subject. Your man shan't stand, &c. &c. &c." ANNE. HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAPTER XXXI. JAMES II. Born 1633. Abdicated the throne 1688.... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1831 - 372 pages
...Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery, in her answer to the secretary of state:—" I have been bullied by., a usurper, I have been neglected by a court; but I will not be dictated to by a subject."* Lady Eleanor, then, was the daughter of a nobleman of some parliamentary influence in this division... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick Fay - 1832 - 236 pages
...parliament she should aid in electing to represent an English borough : " I have been bullied by a usurper ; I have been neglected by a court; but I...shan't stand. "ANNE DORSET, " PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY." If nobility could soar so high, we need not be surprised to find that royalty has surpassed it in the... | |
| John Burke - 1833 - 228 pages
...II., who had written to nominate to her a representative in parliament for the borough of Appleby : " I have been bullied by an usurper . I have been neglected...shan't stand. "ANNE, DORSET, PEMBROKE, and MONTGOMERY." Here is the inscription which appears over the present entrance into Skipton Castle, as the record... | |
| John Burke - Great Britain - 1833 - 238 pages
...II., who bad written to nominate to her a representative in parliament for the borough of Appleby: " I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected...stand. " ANNE, DORSET, PEMBROKE, and MONTGOMERY." Here is the inscription which appears over the present entrance into Skipton Castle, as the record... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...borough of Appleby, of blessed memory, it is necessary to insert it here : — " I have been bullied by a usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will...shan't stand. Anne Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery." This letter was first published in the periodical called "The World," in 1753. The paper in which it... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...subject than thi bartering of the subject's rights : — "1 have been bullied by an usurper, I hav. been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject. Your man shu'n stand. " Anne Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery.' THE TOURIST. APHORISMS. WHO knoweth not that... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Queens - 1834 - 524 pages
...recommend a candidate for the borough of Appleby. The reply of the countess was worthy of her ancestors : " I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected...shan't stand. Anne, Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery." This letter has excited a general admiration; the reason of which is thus explained by Dr. Campbell,... | |
| Great Britain - 1834 - 404 pages
...of parliament she should aid in electing to represent an English borough: " I have been bullied by a usurper ; I have been neglected by a court; but I...be dictated to by a subject. Your man shan't stand. "ANN DORSET, "PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY." If nobility could soar so high, we need not be surprised to... | |
| Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 312 pages
...Charles the Second, who had presumed to recommend to her a candidate for her borough of Appleby. " I have been bullied by an Usurper ; I have been neglected...sha'n't stand. " ANNE DORSET, PEMBROKE, AND MONTGOMERY." This letter, not to speak of its value as relating to the Countess's story, was peculiarly recommended... | |
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