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...travelers of the 1770s who stopped off at the Black Bear Inn on their way from London to Bath, the future Sir Thomas was already a celebrity at the age of ten. Sooner or later, his father, the innkeeper, would bring forth the boy and ask: "Would you like him to recite from the poets or take your portrait?" In 1779 Sir Joshua Reynolds reportedly called the boy "the most promising genius I have ever met." By the time he was 17, he was on his way to becoming one of the most sought-after portrait painters of all time...
Your Aug. 27 studied denunciation of Egypt's Nasser reminds me of what the British press must have sounded like in the 1770s about another colony troublemaker-George Washington...
American colonists in the early 1770s were riled by the King's ordinance allowing British soldiers to be tried in England for civil offenses committed in the colonies. No less irritating to many Englishmen in the early 1950s was the ten-year-old agreement which put U.S. servicemen stationed in Britain outside the jurisdiction of British courts. This irritant was formally removed last week, when the U.S. Senate ratified an addition to the North Atlantic Treaty giving foreign courts the right to try U.S. servicemen for off-duty offenses...
...lion and unicorn of England which Revolutionary mobs had neglected to pull down in the 1770s still stood atop the old State House...
...matter which Revolutionary mobs, and New England ones, in particular, were not negligent about during the 1770s was the destruction of all visible symbols of British sovereignty over the Colonies...