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" I take my subjects' money when I want it, without all this formality of parliament? ' The Bishop of Durham readily answered, 'God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils.' Whereupon the King turned and said to the Bishop of Winchester,... "
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent ... - Page 244
by John Aikin - 1799
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...Bishops, ' My Lords, cannot I take my subjects' money when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?' The Bishop of Durham readily answered,...King turned, and said to the Bishop of Winchester, ' Well, my Lord, what say you ?' — ' Sir,' replied the Bishop, ' I have no skill to judge of parliamentary...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...Bishops, ' My Lords, cannot I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?' The Bishop of Durham readily answered,...King turned and said to the Bishop of Winchester, ' Well, my Lord, what say you?' ' Sir,' replied the bishop, ' I have no skill to judge of parliamentary...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...Bishops, ' My Lords, cannot I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?' The Bishop of Durham readily answered,...King turned and said to the Bishop of Winchester, ' Well, my Lord, what say you?' ' Sir,' replied the bishop, ' I have no skill to judge of parliamentary...
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The history and antiquities of the county palatine of Durham ..., Volume 1

William Hutchinson - 1823 - 798 pages
...*' Durham, who was acomplete court sycophant, readily answered, ' God forbid, sire, but you should t you are the breath of our ' nostrils.' Whereupon the king turned, and said to the bishop " of Whinchcster, * Well my lord, what say you ? ' Sir,' replied " the bishop, ' I have no skill to judge...
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The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine ..., Volume 2

Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
..." My Lords," said he, " cannot I take my subjects' money when I want it, without all this formality in parliament?" The Bishop of Durham readily answered,...King turned, and said to the Bishop of Winchester, u Well, my Lord, what say you ?" * Sir," replied Bishop Andrews, « I have no skill to judge of parliamentary...
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Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and ..., Volume 3

Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...want it, without all this formality in parliament?' The Bishop of Durham readily answered, ' G — d forbid, Sir, but you should ; you are the breath of...king turned, .and said to the Bishop of Winchester, ' Well, my lord, what say you ?' ' Sir, ' replied the bishop, ' I have no skill to judge of parliamentary...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...bishops: ' My lords, cannot I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?' The bishop of Durham readily answered,...king turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, ' Well, my lord, what say you ? ' Sir,' replied the bishop, ' I have no skill to judge of parliamentary...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...bishops, ' My lords, cannot I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?' The bishop of Durham readily answered,...king turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, ' Well, my lord, what say you?' 'Sir,' replied the bishop, ' I have no skill to judge of parliamentary...
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Facetiæ Cantabrigienses, by Socius

Richard Gooch - 1825 - 248 pages
...money when I want it, without all this formality in Parliament?" Bishop Neale quickly replied,—" God forbid, Sir, but you should : you are the breath of our nostrils." On which the king said to the Bishop of Winchester, — • " Well, my Lord, and what say you ?" —...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 14

Anecdotes - 1826 - 368 pages
...lords," said the king, " cannot I take my subjects' money when I want it, without all this formality in Parliament?" The Bishop of Durham readily answered,...but you should, you are the breath of our nostrils." Where upon the king turned, and said to the Bishop of Winchester, " Well, my lord, what say you ?"...
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