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" I return a thousand thanks to your Excellency for your handsome present of fruits, vegetables, and game. You will excuse me however, I trust, when I assure you, that in accepting your present I have broken through a resolution... "
History of the British Colonies: Possessions in Europe - Page 18
by Robert Montgomery Martin - 1835
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An Historical Sketch of Gibraltar, with an Account of the Siege which that ...

John Heriot - Gibraltar - 1792 - 168 pages
...that your Excellency will give my " most profound Respect to his Royal Highness, and to the " Duke de Bourbon, for the Expressions of Esteem with " which...I assure ?' you, " that in accepting your Present, t have broken through a " resolution to which I had faithfully adhered since the be" ginning of the...
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Mirabeau's Letters During His Residence in England: With Anecdotes ..., Volume 2

Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - England - 1832 - 382 pages
...myself that your Excellency will give my most profound respects to his Royal Highness and to the Duke de Bourbon, for the expressions of esteem with which...thousand thanks to your Excellency for your handsome presents of fruits, vegetables, and game ; you will excuse me, however, 1 trust, when I assure MIRABEAU'S...
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The Life and Times of "England's Patriot King," William the Fourth: With a ...

John Watkins - Great Britain - 1832 - 800 pages
...myself that your excellency will give my most profound respects to his Royal Highness, and to the Duke de Bourbon, for the expressions of esteem with which...been pleased to honour so insignificant a person as myself. " I return a thousand thanks to your excellency for your handsome present of fruits, vegetables,...
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National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the ...

William Jerdan - Great Britain - 1834 - 418 pages
...who had then assumed the command of the besieging army, we find the following noble passage : — " I return a thousand thanks to your excellency for...however, I trust, when I assure you that in accepting it, I have broken through a rule to which I had faithfully adhered since the beginning of the war ;...
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The Life and Reign of William the Fourth, Volume 1

George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - Great Britain - 1857 - 462 pages
...expressions of esteem with which they have been pleased to honour so insignificant a person as myself. " I return a thousand thanks to your excellency for...your present, I have broken through a resolution, which I had faithfully kept since the beginning of the war; and that was, never to receive, or procure,...
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The Life and Reign of William the Fourth

George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - Great Britain - 1837 - 954 pages
...BARON GIBRALTAR r:?Hep set: * •• - IA. :;r ^N .ar respects to his Royal Highness, and to the Duke de Bourbon, for the expressions of esteem with which...been pleased to honour so insignificant a person as myself. " I return a thousand thanks to your excellency for your handsome present of fruits, vegetables,...
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History of the British Possessions in the Mediterranean: Comprising ...

Robert Montgomery Martin - Gibraltar - 1837 - 438 pages
...myself that your Excellency will give my most profound respect to His Royal Highness, and to the Duke de Bourbon, for the expressions of esteem with which...pleased to honour so insignificant • a person as 1 am. " I return a thousand thanks to your Excellency for your handsome present of fruits, vegetables,...
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The Life and Reign of William the Fourth

George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - Great Britain - 1837 - 972 pages
...HEATHFIF.LIJ. HAKOV cilRilAII'.' RETURN OF THE FLEET. 63 respects to his Royal Highness, and to the Duke de Bourbon, for the expressions of esteem with which...been pleased to honour so insignificant a person as myself. " I return a thousand thanks to your excellency for your handsome present of fruits, vegetables,...
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The British Colonies: Their History, Extent, Condition and Resources, Volume 12

Robert Montgomery Martin - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1850 - 248 pages
...myself that your excellency will give my most profound respect to his royal highness and to the Duke de Bourbon, for the expressions of esteem with which...have been pleased to honour so insignificant a person aз I am. I return a thousand thanks to your excellency for your handsome present of fruits, vegetables,...
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The Boy's Yearly Book

Children's literature, English - 1867 - 632 pages
...overpowered with the condescension of his Royal Highness in suffering some letters, in person, from this town to be conveyed from Madrid in his carriages....assure you that in accepting your present, I have brokeu through a resolution to which I had faithfully adhered since the beginning of the war ; and...
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