English Party Leaders and English Parties: Sir Robert Walpole. William Pitt, earl of Chatham. Edmund Burke. Charles James Fox. William Pitt, pt.ITinsley brothers, 1878 |
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... Forces , 1720 First Lordofthe Treasury , 1722 Introduces the Excise Bill , 1733 War against Spain , 1739 Resigns Office , 31 Jan. , 1742 Created Earl of Orford , 1742 Died , March 18th , 1745 SIR ROBERT WALPOLE . A.D. 1676-1745 . I. Ir was.
... Forces , 1720 First Lordofthe Treasury , 1722 Introduces the Excise Bill , 1733 War against Spain , 1739 Resigns Office , 31 Jan. , 1742 Created Earl of Orford , 1742 Died , March 18th , 1745 SIR ROBERT WALPOLE . A.D. 1676-1745 . I. Ir was.
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... March , 1731. By this treaty the Emperor ob- tained the consent of the Maritime Powers to the Prag- matic Sanction , while Spain was gratified by the cession of the two Italian duchies . While the Walpole administration thus preserved ...
... March , 1731. By this treaty the Emperor ob- tained the consent of the Maritime Powers to the Prag- matic Sanction , while Spain was gratified by the cession of the two Italian duchies . While the Walpole administration thus preserved ...
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... March , Sir Robert explained his scheme to the House of Commons in a temperate and masterly speech , which occupied , we are told , two hours and a quarter . He began by asserting that he had never conceived such a project as a General ...
... March , Sir Robert explained his scheme to the House of Commons in a temperate and masterly speech , which occupied , we are told , two hours and a quarter . He began by asserting that he had never conceived such a project as a General ...
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... March . The votes were 252 against 245 . Horace Walpole , in a maiden speech of much animation , resisted the motion ; which was ably and almost fiercely supported by William Pitt . He remarked that if it were becoming in the Honourable ...
... March . The votes were 252 against 245 . Horace Walpole , in a maiden speech of much animation , resisted the motion ; which was ably and almost fiercely supported by William Pitt . He remarked that if it were becoming in the Honourable ...
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... March his son writes : " His recovery is now at such a standstill that I fear it is in vain to expect much further amendment . " He adds , " How dismal a prospect for him , with the possession of the greatest understanding in the world ...
... March his son writes : " His recovery is now at such a standstill that I fear it is in vain to expect much further amendment . " He adds , " How dismal a prospect for him , with the possession of the greatest understanding in the world ...
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Էջ 296 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Էջ 243 - it was perfectly justifiable to use all the means that God and nature put into our hands!" I AM ASTONISHED ! — shocked ! to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this House, or in this country ; principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman, and unchristian ! My lords, I did not intend to have encroached again upon your attention; but I cannot repress my indignation.
Էջ 242 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Էջ 318 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Էջ 218 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Էջ 158 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Էջ 225 - He made an administration, so chequered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...
Էջ 220 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Էջ 290 - What signify all those titles and all those arms? Of what avail are they, when the reason of the thing tells me that the assertion of my title is the loss of my suit, and that I could do nothing but wound myself by the use of my own weapons?
Էջ 288 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it'! Fortunate man, he has lived to see it! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day!