| John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 478 Seiten
...Secretary of State to Charles the Second, when he applied to her to nominate a member of Parliament for the borough of Appleby: " I have been bullied...I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man sha 'n't stand. "ANNE DORSET, " Pembroke and Montgomery." Channel Row is connected by a curious anecdote... | |
| New general biographical dictionary - 1848 - 532 Seiten
...Appleby. To this demand the countess returned the following laconic answer : " I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will...dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE, Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery." Pennant characterizes lady Anne Clifford as the most eminent... | |
| Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 532 Seiten
...Appleby. To this demand the countess returned the following laconic answer : " I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will...dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE, Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery." Pennant characterizes lady Anne Clifford as the most eminent... | |
| George Campbell - 1849 - 472 Seiten
...Appleby, is an excellent illustration of this doctrine. " I have been bullied," says her ladyship, " by a usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but...dictated to by a subject — your man sha'n't stand."* If we consider the meaning, there is mention made here of two facts, which it was impossible that anybody... | |
| George Atkinson - 1849 - 330 Seiten
...who received from that extraordinary woman the following answer: — " Sir, I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a Court, but I will...be dictated to by a subject: your man sha'nt stand. " Yours, &c." another time he gave the city £.20 towards their expenses in renewing their charter.... | |
| George Atkinson - 1849 - 334 Seiten
...received from that extraordinary woman the following answer : — " Sir, I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a Court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject: your man sba'nt stand. " Yours, &c." another time he gave the city £.20 towards their expenses in renewing... | |
| 1906 - 562 Seiten
...of Appleby : — SIR,— I have been bullied by a usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but 1 will not be dictated to by a subject. Your man shan't stand. ANNE PEMBROKE. MNG I have some memory of a story that some person wrote to the first Duke of Wellington,... | |
| 1906 - 682 Seiten
...on her allowing Sir Joseph Williamson to be returned member for her borough of Appleby :— SIR,— I have been bullied by a usurper, I have been neglected...be dictated to by a subject. Your man shan't stand. ДУМЕ PEMBROKE. MNO I have some memory of a story that some person wrote to the first Duke of Wellington,... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1850 - 340 Seiten
...respecting the representation of the borough of Appleby, is well known — " I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a Court, but I will...dictated to by a subject — your man shan't stand." It is now generally agreed that this letter is spurious ; but however that may be, she was undoubtedly... | |
| Confessor - 1851 - 304 Seiten
...famous by her reply, in the subsequent reign, to the Minister Williamson, on his demand that she should nominate a member for the borough of Appleby : —...sha'n't stand. " ANN DORSET, "PEMBROKE, AND MONTGOMERY." have said what I brought thee here to listen to." " But, I intreat your Highness, — consider the... | |
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