 | John Wilkes - 1767 - 300 pages
...his Houfhold ; my fuperior i ; *.See the North 'Briton," No. 12, 'at the end of this volume. ' deed in rank, fortune,- and abilities, but my equal only in honour, courage, and liberty. His Lordfhip then afked me, if I would fight him that evening. I faid, that I preferred the n£*t morning,... | |
 | John Wilkes - 1767 - 294 pages
...Steward of his Houfhold ; my fuperior in* See the North Briton, No. 12, at the end of this volume, deed in rank, fortune, and abilities, but my equal only in honour, courage, and liberty. His Lordfhip then afked me, if I would fight him that evening. I faid, that I preferred the next morning,... | |
 | Augustus Henry Fitzroy Duke of Grafton, John Wilkes - 1769 - 348 pages
...fubmit to the arbitrary dictates of a fellow fubjed, a lord fteward of his houfehold, feold, my fuperior indeed in rank, fortune, and abilities, but my equal...in honour, courage, and liberty. Lord Talbot then afked me, if I would fight him that evening. I faid, that I preferred the next morning, as it had been... | |
 | 1769 - 728 pages
...fubmit to the arbitrary dictates cf a fellow fub}sdl, a lord fteward of his houfhold ; my fuperior indeed in rank, fortune, and abilities, but my equal only in honour, courage, and liberty. His lordmip then afked me if I would fight him that evening. I faid, that I preferred the ne'xt morning,... | |
 | John Wilkes - 1769 - 290 pages
...fubmit to the arbitrary diftates of a fellow fubjeft, a Lord Steward of his Houfhold ; my fuperior indeed in rank, fortune, and abilities, but my equal only in honour, courage, and liberty. His Lordmip then afked me, if I would fight him that evening;. 'I faid, that I pieferred the next morning,... | |
 | English liberty - 1769 - 430 pages
...fubmit to the arbitrary dictates of a fellow fabject, a Lord Steward of his Houfhold ; my fuperior indeed in rank, fortune, and abilities, but my equal only in honour, courage, and liberty. His Lordfhip then afked me if I would fight him that evening. I faid, that I preferred the next morning,... | |
 | John Wilkes - 1769 - 544 pages
...fubmit to the arbitrary dictates of a fellow fubjeft, a Lord Steward of his Houfhold ; my fuperior indeed in rank, fortune, and abilities, but my equal only in honour, courage, and Liberty. His Lordfhip then afked me, if I would fight him that evening. I faid, that I preferred the next morning,... | |
 | 1772 - 302 pages
...fellow fubject, a lord fteward of his houfehold, my fuperior indeed in rank, fortune and abili-- ties, but my equal only in honour, courage, and liberty. Lord Talbot then afked me, if I would fight him that evening. I faid, that I preferred the next morning, as it had been... | |
 | John Wilkes - 1805 - 324 pages
...know by what right his lordship catechised me about a paper, wljich did not bear my name; thatl ikould never resolve him that question, till he made out...Talbot then asked me, if I would fight him that evening f I said, that I preferred the next morning, as it had been settled before ; and gave my reasons. His... | |
 | James P. Gilchrist - 1821 - 404 pages
...gracious sovereign, but would never submit to the arbitrary dictates of a fellow subject, a Lord Steward of his household ; my superior indeed in rank, fortune,...but my equal only in honour, courage, and liberty. His Lordship then asked me if I would fight him that evening. I said, that I preferred the next morning,... | |
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I observed, that I was a private English gentleman, perfectly free and independent, which I held to be a character of the highest dignity ; that I obeyed with pleasure a gracious sovereign, but would never submit to the arbitrary dictates of a fellow-subject,... 
