An English Green Box; Or, the Green Box of the R----T H----E E----D L----D Churllow, Given by the Celebrated Mrs. Harvey to Roger O'Tickle, with Occa (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1779 Excerpt: ... Paper found by the Door-keeper, &c. Stc. (written just as represented here.) Minrs. been long tottering Shock, the manifesto cannot fail of giving Members of both houses, must complete their downfall.--It will be prudent to ingratiate myself with oppn, and secure a pi in the scramble. Surest way will be to reprobate my old friends in time, and extol those I'de make my friends. It being a moot point whether Rd. Rm. or Sne will hold the reins of government; to secure them all three, I must, with Athanasian policy, wshp one Minr. in Tny; and in this Tny none must be afore or after other; nor greater or less than another; but the whole three persons coequal. He that would get a PI, must thus think, or at least speak of the Tnv. Both Rd. and Abn. I hear intend to move for the discharge of pres Nincom PP -, . Outlines of my sp on the ocen. Exord. "Confess astnmt at Manfo "Severe upon Mins for keeping House so "long in the dark with respt to spn. "Dwell with extacy on movers zeal Grt "indgn agst authrs of our ruin. Protest "(with solemnity of a Bfp) that I never cared a button for them.--Never attach'd to "to any thing but my plsrs, and valued Mins "like my mtrsses, no further than as they "contributed to the gratfn of those plsrs. "True, I've fought their bttls, but 'twas "because they pd handsomely. I had taken u unto mils a wife too, because cunning lit"tie Isaac stopd his hand, and some lacks "of rps were necessary to my acceptance at "Almacks, but I am as ready to quit them "as I was to leave her Ladyship." Least the Tny should entertain doubts of the defusiveness of my genius, and imputing the warmth of the language to the zeal of the orator, should conceive that I have been accustomed to speak from my heart, and can speak no other language, it will be ...