_]
[522] [John Stuart, Earl of Bute (1713-1792), was Secretary of State
March 25, 1761, and Prime Minister May 29, 1762-April, 1763.
[522] [John Stuart, Earl of Bute (1713-1792), was Secretary of State
March 25, 1761, and Prime Minister May 29, 1762-April, 1763.
Byron
"]
[gr] _Crossing his radiant arms_----. --[MS. erased. ]
[gs] _But kindly; Sathan met_----. --[MS. erased. ]
[520] ["No saint in the course of his religious warfare was more
sensible of the unhappy failure of pious resolves than Dr. Johnson; he
said one day, talking to an acquaintance on this subject, 'Sir, hell is
paved with good intentions. '" Compare "Hell is full of good meanings and
wishes. " _Jacula Prudentum,_ by George Herbert, ed. 1651, p. 11;
Boswell's _Life of Johnson,_ 1876, p. 450, note 5. ]
[521] {501}[Compare--
"Not once or twice in our rough Island's story
The path of duty has become the path of glory. "
Tennyson's _Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.
_]
[522] [John Stuart, Earl of Bute (1713-1792), was Secretary of State
March 25, 1761, and Prime Minister May 29, 1762-April, 1763. For the
general estimate of the influence which Bute exercised on the young
king, see a caricature entitled "The Royal Dupe" (Wright, p. 285),
_Dict. of Nat. Biog. _, art. "George III. "]
[gt] {502}_With blood and debt_----. --[MS. ]
[gu] _A_ part _of that which they held all of old_. --[MS. erased]
[523] {503}[George III. resisted Catholic Emancipation in 1795. "The
more I reflect on the subject, the more I feel the danger of the
proposal. "--Letter to Pitt, February 6, 1795. Again, February 1, 1801,
"This principle of duty must therefore prevent me from discussing any
proposition [to admit 'Catholics and Dissenters to offices, and
Catholics to Parliament'] tending to destroy the groundwork [that all
who held employments in the State must be members of the Church of
England] of our happy constitution.
[gr] _Crossing his radiant arms_----. --[MS. erased. ]
[gs] _But kindly; Sathan met_----. --[MS. erased. ]
[520] ["No saint in the course of his religious warfare was more
sensible of the unhappy failure of pious resolves than Dr. Johnson; he
said one day, talking to an acquaintance on this subject, 'Sir, hell is
paved with good intentions. '" Compare "Hell is full of good meanings and
wishes. " _Jacula Prudentum,_ by George Herbert, ed. 1651, p. 11;
Boswell's _Life of Johnson,_ 1876, p. 450, note 5. ]
[521] {501}[Compare--
"Not once or twice in our rough Island's story
The path of duty has become the path of glory. "
Tennyson's _Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.
_]
[522] [John Stuart, Earl of Bute (1713-1792), was Secretary of State
March 25, 1761, and Prime Minister May 29, 1762-April, 1763. For the
general estimate of the influence which Bute exercised on the young
king, see a caricature entitled "The Royal Dupe" (Wright, p. 285),
_Dict. of Nat. Biog. _, art. "George III. "]
[gt] {502}_With blood and debt_----. --[MS. ]
[gu] _A_ part _of that which they held all of old_. --[MS. erased]
[523] {503}[George III. resisted Catholic Emancipation in 1795. "The
more I reflect on the subject, the more I feel the danger of the
proposal. "--Letter to Pitt, February 6, 1795. Again, February 1, 1801,
"This principle of duty must therefore prevent me from discussing any
proposition [to admit 'Catholics and Dissenters to offices, and
Catholics to Parliament'] tending to destroy the groundwork [that all
who held employments in the State must be members of the Church of
England] of our happy constitution.
