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" Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security... "
The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Page 248
1764
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 66

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 650 pages
...the whole had been settled by the cabinet, the king added the following words in his own hand : — ' Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people whose loyalty and warm...
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The History of England, from the Accession to the Decease of King George the ...

John Adolphus - 1840 - 652 pages
...reliance on the affection of his people, and the goodness of Providence, His Majesty used these words: " BORN AND EDUCATED IN THIS " COUNTRY, I GLORY IN THE NAME OF BRITON : and the " peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in pro" mating the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm...
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The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King ..., Volume 1

John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1840 - 646 pages
...reliance on the affection of his people, and the goodness of Providence, His Majesty used these words: " BORN AND EDUCATED IN THIS ." COUNTRY, I GLORY IN THE NAME OF BRITON : Olid ttlC " peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in pro" moling the welfare of a people,...
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Universal history on scriptural principles, Volume 8

Mary Bowley - 1842 - 550 pages
...deepened by his address to the parliament soon after his accession, in which he thus expressed himself: "Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton : and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm...
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The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence ...

Jeremy Bentham - Ethics - 1842 - 320 pages
...struck with the locution, which was new to the English language, being imitated from the French, " Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton." It was a great saving of words. " I was, however, a great reformist ; but never suspected that the...
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The Works of Jeremy Bentham: Memoirs of Bentham

Jeremy Bentham - Constitutional law - 1843 - 626 pages
...struck with the locntion, which was new to the English language, being imitated from the French, " Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.' It was a great saving of words. " I was, however, a great reformist ; but never suspected that the...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of ..., Volume 4

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1844 - 608 pages
...; but when complete His Majesty is said to have added with his own hand a paragraph as follows : " Born and " educated in this country, I glory in the name of " Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life " will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a " people whose loyalty and warm...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle ...

Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pages
...; but when complete His Majesty is said to have added with his own hand a paragraph as follows : " Born and " educated in this country, I glory in the name of " Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life " will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a " people whose loyalty and warm...
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The History of Great Britain from the Death of George II. to the Coronation ...

J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1844 - 742 pages
...his personal sentiments at his accession, and announced the principles of his future government. "Bom and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of u people, whose loyalty and warm...
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The oriental rambler, or, The papers of Polyphilus

Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 pages
...in 1760, when a young man, was highly thought of by the nation for this single patriotic speech, " born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton." The celebrated Kosciusko is a noble specimen of patriotism. I shall Conclude this paper, with an anecdote...
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