How To Use George ii In A Sentence
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The first three years of George II's reign, which began in 1727, were afflicted by successive waves of smallpox and influenza-like infections, imprecisely and variously described by contemporaries as agues and fevers.
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At the top was the Hanoverian King George II, who could not speak English and who was surrounded by ministers and courtiers feathering their nests and stabbing each other in the back.
George Washington’s First War
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George III," the mad king misled by his advisers, but perhaps an even more apt comparison might be Christopher Marlowe's morally pathetic "Edward The Second," with Dick Cheney as the court favorite Piers Gaveston.
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Anti-government cartoons in the 1790s often included the most scabrous, even treasonable, representations of King George III.
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The founders said so to George III in other words, but the thought is simple.
David Bromwich: The Mirror of 1776
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George III's rhetorical transformation from symbol of monarchical benevolence to tyrant provided the ultimate justification for revolution.
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Tony Stone is also exhibiting an extremely rare matching set of four George III serpentine fronted knife boxes in flame mahogany with filigree silverwork.
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In 18th-century England, Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, used her extravagant tastes to support the Whig cause against George III, wearing outrageously plumed hats to political rallies.
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In Johnson's England ambitious politicians had been cloaking themselves in patriotism since the 1730s, and George III himself had begun his reign glorying in the name of Britain.
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The madness of King George III attracted considerable attention and led to calls for more humane forms of treatment.
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The ship went on to chart the east coast of Australia, successfully claiming half the continent for King George III.
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Earlier this year, the British journal Lancet published a report saying that a test of strands of George III's hair contained arsenic, which can provoke porphyria attacks.
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Taking size to another level altogether is lot 1377, a fine George III period mahogany breakfront library bookcase which comes with a provenance from the Synge Family Collection at Glenmore Castle near Arklow, Co Wicklow.
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I mean the pamphleteers and the sons of liberty who got right in the face of King George III.
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Later, when their peerage was conferred, they lost a little of their yeoman simplicity, and became peruked and robed and breeched; one, indeed, in the age of George III., who was blessed with poetical aspirations, appeared in bare feet and a
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This enormous island, first discovered in 1607 by Luis de Torres, and inhabited only by the very lowest race of savages, appeared to the Government of George III. a convenient spot for forming a penal settlement; and in 1787 the first convict ships carried out an instalment from the English jails to New
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The former MP had commissioned William Chambers, George III's architectural tutor, and Capability Brown to rebuild his estate, Milton Abbey.
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The reign of George II practically revels in this perverse transparency.
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The primal conflict of American history pitted the Patriots against the Tories - the third or so of the colonial population that remained loyal to King George III.
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Several of the men who would become known as the Founding Fathers petitioned Parliament and King George III, asserting that no taxes should be imposed on the colonists “but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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He uses his cavernous voice to great effect as a lubricious Henry VIII and a nearly gaga George III.
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George III's eldest son was a notorious profligate and in this essay (1792), Gillray captured his dissoluteness with acid precision.
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Martin's hilarious account of Boswell's attempting to impress the King of Prussia by wearing a fetching Scottish bonnet is matched, deliciously, by Sisman's description of Boswell's announcing his connection to the Scottish royal line to the Hanoverian George III, who was distinctly unamused.
Bozzy's Life
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His position was threatened in 1788 when the illness of George III presaged a change of government.
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Priestley's nonconformist views and his support for the French Revolution brought him into conflict with the Government and many people, including George III, believed he was an atheist.
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It was only after King George III put the kibosh on the pipeline project that things changed.
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Lence has convincingly argued that ‘the injuries, the usurpations, all these were sufferable until the pernicious acts of George III threatened the very foundations of self-government.’
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His grandfather, the legendary ‘Chevalier’ Taylor, had been oculist to George II, and afterwards, so his grandson assures us, to ‘every crowned head in Europe’.
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The great man had smiled at him then, and - perhaps mistaking him for a beggar himself - handed him a coin, a half-crown showing the profile of the mad old Lizard King, George III, which Orphan had kept ever since for good luck.
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He had once put on an amazing demonstration of his skill for King George III, and the rifle he carried, the first breech-loader made, was a deadly accurate instrument of his own invention that weighed only seven and a half pounds.
Angel in the Whirlwind
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Both his mastery of the irascible and unpredictable George II and his control of a previously unmanageable Parliament were portrayed in countless broadsides and prints as the arts of a veritable political conjuror.
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He was the 10th monarch to be buried in the precinct of the chapel, with other sovereigns including Henry VIII, Charles I, George III, Edward VII and George V.
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Two German-held bibles both contain lazurite, an expensive mineral that is notably absent from the King George III copy.
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Several of the men who would become known as the Founding Fathers petitioned Parliament and King George III, asserting that no taxes should be imposed on the colonists “but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Around the age of 17, she fell in love with yet another of George III's equerries, Sir Charles FitzRoy, who was said to be a very dull young man.
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The governor of New South Wales in 1792 sent George III the first kangaroo to be trans-shipped.
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Some people are too late for everything but ruin; when a nobleman apologized to George III. for being late, and said, "better late than never," the king replied, "No, I say, _better never than late_.
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To break the deadlock, they sent an army of 9,000 men, British and German (known as Hessians to the Americans) to besiege Charleston, S.C. A few victories in the South, they hoped, would inflame Southerners loyal to King George III, causing them to rise up and allow London to "Americanize" the war.
Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War
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This remains a graphic account of the Gordon Riots, when the London mob, inspired by anti-Catholicism, rampaged across the capital until stopped by the firm hand of George III.
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The light isn't the only optical adjustment: Visitors may also adjust their vision as they encounter a moving picture at the entrance—a motion-sensitive rendering of the 19th-century painting "Pulling Down the Statue of King George III.
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Officially known as the George III tiara, the piece was made for Queen Mary and has been worn by royal brides including Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Anne.
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George III was thus in many ways the quintessential tabloid monarch: familiar, honest, outspoken - and chary of foreigners.
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As for the George II Chinoiserie giltwood overmantel mirror by sold by Christie's New York on 3 June, it had it all.
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During a brief restoration of the monarchy, under King George II's orders, they were all buried together in the family plot.
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The furniture, mainly bought in the 1920s and 1930s, includes an early George III mahogany breakfront bookcase estimated at £7,000 to £10,000 and other pieces by Gillows.
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George III was interested in horology, and Louis XVI enjoyed locksmithing.
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She later unloaded her Roman statues, Chippendale commode and her George III crystal chandelier at a two-day Sotheby's auction.
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BATH, England—Although historians today think that he suffered from a hereditary blood disorder called porphyria, not madness, King George III's erratic behavior has always baffled and intrigued in equal measure.
The Witty Madness of David Haig's George III Is Fit for a King
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Passed over for court painter to George III, Reynolds turned to the King's opponents, the Whig grandees and the group that surrounded the Prince of Wales.
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George II was the absolute ruler of a medium-sized German state, Hanover, as well as being the British sovereign.
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We also learn that George III was ‘a genuinely faithful spouse… devoted to his fifteen children’.
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Eighteenth-century prints caricature George III as a farmer, laugh at Hanoverian German accents – yet the same crowds who laughed at the printshop windows turned out loyally for coronations.
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The first three years of George II's reign, which began in 1727, were afflicted by successive waves of smallpox and influenza-like infections, imprecisely and variously described by contemporaries as agues and fevers.
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George II was the absolute ruler of a medium-sized German state, Hanover, as well as being the British sovereign.
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The constraints became even clearer in the years of Whig ascendency under George I and George II.
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After Benjamin Franklin warned Parliament that military enforcement of the Stamp Act might cause a revolution in the American colonies, in 1766 King George III signed a bill repealing the law.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Sotheby's will auction a pair of Queen Anne giltwood wall mirrors, circa 1715, from the Seaton Delaval Hall collection (estimate: £40,000-£60,000), as well as a circa-1755, George III giltwood and marble table (estimate: £7,000-£10,000).
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That required a journey into the huge middle tower of the BL containing the King's Library of George III, which is what visitors to the library see in front of them when they enter the building.
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Caroline (regent of the kingdom during the absence of George II. on the Continent), that the execution of the sentence of death pronounced against John Porteous, late Captain – Lieutenant of the City Guard of Edinburgh, present prisoner in the Tolbooth of that city, be respited for six weeks from the time appointed for his execution.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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But the star lot here is a pair of George III sauce boats by Dublin silversmith Thomas Jones, whose work is much sought after.
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Walpole had served George I for many years and George II soon formed an equally successful relationship with him.
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The act requires descendants of George II, except for princesses marrying into a foreign family, to gain the monarch's permission in order for their marriage to be valid.
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George III became increasingly senile at the end of 1810 and in the following year the prince was appointed regent.
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He became physician general to the Army in the Austrian war of succession, was appointed physician to King George III, was knighted in 1762 and later received a baronetcy.
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Few -- and very few -- are the adducible instances in which, in the reigns of George III.,
Collections and Recollections
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Pitt Papers, 101; George III. to Pitt, Nov. 19, in Stanhope's _Life of Pitt_, ii.,
The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration
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Splayed backs also feature prominently on the coronation thrones made for George III and Queen Charlotte in 1760.
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George III was a lugubriously unprogressive monarch roused by Fox's licentiousness; Pitt was the dreary juvenile hero of our new foreign secretary; neither would have expected to find the liberal and modern Adonis at their side.
The public wants a ceasefire, so let's give peace a chance
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George I and George II were Germans by birth.
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Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and mad George III were also on hand, although only in full-length portrait form.
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In a damage-limitation exercise aimed at improving the public image of the princess, paintings were commissioned of the scene at Brundisium and analogies publicly drawn between the mother of King George III and this famous Roman mother and grieving widow.104
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