How To Use George II In A Sentence
- He became physician general to the Army in the Austrian war of succession, was appointed physician to King George III, was knighted in 1762 and later received a baronetcy.
- George II was the absolute ruler of a medium-sized German state, Hanover, as well as being the British sovereign.
- The first three years of George II's reign, which began in 1727, were afflicted by successive waves of smallpox and influenza-like infections, imprecisely and variously described by contemporaries as agues and fevers.
- Eighteenth-century prints caricature George III as a farmer, laugh at Hanoverian German accents – yet the same crowds who laughed at the printshop windows turned out loyally for coronations.
- We also learn that George III was ‘a genuinely faithful spouse… devoted to his fifteen children’.
- George II was the absolute ruler of a medium-sized German state, Hanover, as well as being the British sovereign.
- Passed over for court painter to George III, Reynolds turned to the King's opponents, the Whig grandees and the group that surrounded the Prince of Wales.
- BATH, England—Although historians today think that he suffered from a hereditary blood disorder called porphyria, not madness, King George III's erratic behavior has always baffled and intrigued in equal measure. The Witty Madness of David Haig's George III Is Fit for a King
- She later unloaded her Roman statues, Chippendale commode and her George III crystal chandelier at a two-day Sotheby's auction. Georgialee Lang: How to Blow a Billion Dollars
- Some people are too late for everything but ruin; when a nobleman apologized to George III. for being late, and said, "better late than never," the king replied, "No, I say, _better never than late_. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune
