| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 3978 |
| AUTHOR: | William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (17081778) |
| QUOTATION: | A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Chatham Correspondence. Speech, March 2, 1770. |
| | Note 1. Quoted by Lord Mahon, greater than the throne itself.History of England, vol. v. p. 258. [back] |
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