Representative Statesmen: Political Studies, Հատոր 1Chapman and Hall, 1879 |
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Էջ 100
... Dissenter beneath their weight , the Papist was no less the victim of dis- abilities equally severe and mortifying . The King had used all his arts with his two great allies , the Tories and the Churchmen , to aid him in the repeal of ...
... Dissenter beneath their weight , the Papist was no less the victim of dis- abilities equally severe and mortifying . The King had used all his arts with his two great allies , the Tories and the Churchmen , to aid him in the repeal of ...
Էջ 101
... Dissenter was warned that there was nothing in common between him and a Papist , that he was only the tool of the King , and that he would far more wisely serve his interests if he threw in his fate with the Church of England . Of all ...
... Dissenter was warned that there was nothing in common between him and a Papist , that he was only the tool of the King , and that he would far more wisely serve his interests if he threw in his fate with the Church of England . Of all ...
Էջ 102
... Dissenter upon occasion of His Majesty's late gracious Declaration of Indulgence , " he exposed the weakness and the dangers of the union between Royalty and Dissent , and summed up with his usual keenness of judgment the consequences ...
... Dissenter upon occasion of His Majesty's late gracious Declaration of Indulgence , " he exposed the weakness and the dangers of the union between Royalty and Dissent , and summed up with his usual keenness of judgment the consequences ...
Էջ 103
... Dissenter . The Nonconformist could not therefore flatter himself that his Majesty had any real inclination for him . " You are only to be hugged now , " laughed the Trimmer , " that you may be the better squeezed at another time ...
... Dissenter . The Nonconformist could not therefore flatter himself that his Majesty had any real inclination for him . " You are only to be hugged now , " laughed the Trimmer , " that you may be the better squeezed at another time ...
Էջ 104
... Dissenter may be rescued from the severity of one law , but at the same time by this ill - yoked alliance he gives a blow to all the laws by which his religion and liberty are protected . It is true he will be re- lieved of his ...
... Dissenter may be rescued from the severity of one law , but at the same time by this ill - yoked alliance he gives a blow to all the laws by which his religion and liberty are protected . It is true he will be re- lieved of his ...
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Representative Statesmen: Political Studies, Հատոր 1 Alexander Charles Ewald Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1879 |
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Էջ 255 - 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 236 - 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 258 - ... man, woman, and child ! to send forth the infidel savage — 'against whom ? against your Protestant brethren ; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war ! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war...
Էջ 254 - You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly ; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince, that sells his subjects to the shambles...
Էջ 256 - 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 265 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me ; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy.
Էջ 254 - I do; I know their virtues and their valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Էջ 242 - ... stone and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was, indeed, a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, — " Sir, your name?" — " Sir, you have the advantage of me." — " Mr. Such-a-one.
Էջ 70 - This innocent word Trimmer signifieth no more than this, That if Men are together in a Boat, and one part of the Company would weigh it down on one side, another would make it lean as much to the contrary ; it happeneth there is a third Opinion of those, who conceive it would do as well, if the Boat went even, without endangering the Passengers...
Էջ 265 - Shall we tarnish the lustre of this nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions ? Shall this great kingdom, that has survived whole and entire the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquest ; that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish armada, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon...