GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFORD JAMES, Historiographer Royal to King William IV., was born in London in the first year of the nineteenth century, and died at Venice in 1860. His comparatively short life was exceptionally full and active. He was historian, politician and traveller, the reputed author of upwards of a hundred novels, the compiler and editor of nearly half as many volumes of letters, memoirs, and biographies, a poet and a pamphleteer, and, during the last ten years of his life, British Consul successively in Massachusetts, Norfolk (Virginia), and Venice. He was on terms of friendship with...

"More should I question thee, and more I must---- Enough more to know would not be more to trust---- From whence thou cam'st, how tended on. But rest Unquestioned, welcome; and undoubted, blest." George Payne Rainsford James (9 August 1799 - 9 June 1860), was an English novelist and historical writer, the son of a physician in London. He was for many years British Consul at various places in the United States and on the Continent. He held the honorary office of British Historiographer Royal during the last years of William IV's reign.

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Merry England --Oh, merry England What a difference has there always been between thee and every other land What a cheerfulness there seems to hang about thy very name What yeoman-like hilarity is there in all the thoughts of the past What a spirit of sylvan cheer and rustic hardihood in all the tales of thy old times When England was altogether an agricultural land--when a rude plough produced an abundant harvest, and a thin, but hardy and generous peasantry, devoted themselves totally to the cultivation of the earth, --when wide forests waved their green boughs over many of the richest...

GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFORD JAMES, Historiographer Royal to King William IV., was born in London in the first year of the nineteenth century, and died at Venice in 1860. His comparatively short life was exceptionally full and active. He was historian, politician and traveller, the reputed author of upwards of a hundred novels, the compiler and editor of nearly half as many volumes of letters, memoirs, and biographies, a poet and a pamphleteer, and, during the last ten years of his life, British Consul successively in Massachusetts, Norfolk (Virginia), and Venice. He was on terms of friendship with...

A brief history of the United States boundary question by G. P. R. James. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1839 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

The King's Highway, A Novel by G. P. R. James. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1840 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

The motto of which should be "Out of the frying-pan into the fire." THE jingle of Claude de Blenau's spurs, as he descended with a quick step the staircase of the Palais Cardinal, told as plainly as a pair of French spurs could tell, that his heart was lightened of a heavy load since he had last tried their ascent; and the spring of his foot, as he leaped upon his horse, spoke much of renewed hope, and banished apprehension.

Showing how a Great Minister made a great mistake. STRANGE to say, in the manuscript notes from which this true history is derived, there occurs the most extraordinary omission that perhaps ever appeared in the writings of any one pretending to accuracy; and most provoking of all, I have searched memoirs and annals, histories and letters, state papers and private memoranda, and have consulted all sorts of tradition, oral and written, without being enabled to supply from any other source the neglect of the original historian.