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THE REIGN
The other services were all supplyed with ease, chearfulness and alacrity.
But there was one circumstance which pleased the King in this, as in some other sessions—its meeting at Stanley; where he had summoned them. He there found himself in the midst of his own creation, and was never so well pleased, as when he was engaged in raising noble piles of architecture; in conversing with men of genius, and planning future establishments in favour of the arts and sciences. Had the other Princes of Europe been possessed of such a philosophic disposition, George would never have attacked his neighbours; he was far more pleased to be at the head of an academy at Stanley, than of a victorious army, conquering a great kingdom.
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