Jerzy III Hanowerski cytaty (14 cytatów)

Jerzy III Hanowerski: 14 cytatów3 Polubienia

Jerzy III Hanowerski słynne cytaty

przezwisko, jakie zyskał wskutek namiętnej pasji, jaką było… rolnictwo.

„Co teraz zrobi generał Waszyngton? Jeśli rzeczywiście tak postąpi, będzie największym człowiekiem na ziemi.”

rozmowa z Benjaminem Westem, podczas której ten powiedział mu, że George Washington ma zamiar po zakończeniu rządów wrócić na farmę.
Źródło: Paul Johnson, Bohaterowie, tłum. Anna i Jacek Maziarscy, wyd. Świat Książki, Warszawa 2009, s. 141.

„Jeśli energiczne kroki wydają się jedynym pozostałym środkiem wymuszenia na Ameryce należnego posłuszeństwa wobec ojczyzny, to kolonie muszą się z tym pogodzić.”

Jerzy III Hanowerski

Źródło: Stephen Weir, Najgorsze decyzje w historii świata. Okoliczności, sprawcy, konsekwencje, tłum. Dorota Gabon, Wydawnictwo Publicat, Poznań 2008, ISBN 9788324515813, s. 64.

„Opis: przezwisko, jakie zyskał wskutek namiętnej pasji, jaką było… rolnictwo.”

Jerzy III Hanowerski

Farmer George.
Źródło: Paul Johnson, Bohaterowie, op. cit., s. 139.

Jerzy III Hanowerski: Cytaty po angielsku

“Nothing important happened today.”

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George III of the United Kingdom

It is widely believed that George III wrote this in his diary on July 4, 1776, the day the American Revolution began. In fact, this was made up by the scriptwriters of the series The X Files, as George III did not write a diary.
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“"Nothing important happened today." - King George's diary entry, July 4th, 1776, the same day the American colonies declared their independence.”

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Arnold Hunt, curator at the British Library, says King George never kept a diary http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11703583. <br class="br">Misattributed

“I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.”

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Źródło: To John Adams, as quoted in Adams, C.F. (editor) (1850–56), The works of John Adams, second president of the United States, vol. VIII, pp. 255–257, quoted in Ayling, p. 323 and Hibbert, p. 165.

“When the unhappy and deluded multitude, against whom this force will be directed, shall become sensible of their error, I shall be ready to receive the misled with tenderness and mercy!”

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Źródło: Address to Parliament http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/shots/address.html (27 October 1775).

“By God, Harrison, I will see you righted!”

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Said ca. 1772, speaking to John Harrison's son William. Quoted in Dava Sobel, "Longitude" (1995, Fourth Estate Limited. London. Printed 1998. ISBN 1-85702-571-7), p. 147

“Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.”

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From George III's letter of February 15, 1775 to Lord North, quoted in the <i>Edinburgh Review</i> (July 1867) from the originals at Windsor. <br class="br">Źródło: Google Books, The Edinburgh Review volumes 126–126, February 13, 2020 https://books.google.com/books?id=qpiQgE49-P8C&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=Once+vigorous+measures+appear+to+be+the+only+means+left+of+bringing+the+Americans+to+a+due+submission+to+the+mother+country,+the+colonies+will+submit&source=bl&ots=mL-ddKwu1s&sig=ACfU3U1guuvPa24Ta-4K5vWkF6OP4D6HXA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjel-HFgM_nAhUB2FkKHUaSBEkQ6AEwCXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&f=false,

“Unless the French are thoroughly reduced, no solid peace can be obtained, and no attempt ought to be encouraged of opening a negotiation, which even has the effect of destroying all energy in those who ought to look forward to the continuance of war.”

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Źródło: Letter to Lord Grenville (25 October 1795), quoted in The Manuscripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq, Volume III (1899), p. 143

“[I]t is by bold and manly efforts Nations have been preserved not pursueing alone the line of home defence.”

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Źródło: Letter to Lord Sandwich (5 September 1779), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third from 1760 to December 1783, Volume IV: 1778–1779, ed. Sir John William Forstecue (1927), p. 435

“Nothing can astonish me more than that any one should accuse me of all people of loving foreign fashions, whom I owne rather incline too much to the John Bull, and am apt to despise what I am not accustom'd to.”

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Źródło: Letter to the Earl of Bute (c. 1761–1762), quoted in Letters from George III to Lord Bute, 1756–1766, ed. Romney Sedgwick (1939), p. 77

“I am happy enough to think I have the present the real love of my subjects, and lay it down for certain that if I do not show them that I will not permit Ministers to trample on me, that my subjects will in time come to esteem me unworthy of the Crown I wear.”

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Źródło: Letter to the Earl of Bute (November 1760), quoted in Letters from George III to Lord Bute, 1756–1766, ed. Romney Sedgwick (1939), p. 50