Annals of Great Britain: From the Ascension of George III, to the Peace of Amiens ...Mundell, 1807 |
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... continued to be felt . The duke of Newcastle himself complain- ed of his haughty demeanour ; but it was only to his private secretary , who advised his grace to over- look it , saying , it would be most prudent . Thus , feeling himself ...
... continued to be felt . The duke of Newcastle himself complain- ed of his haughty demeanour ; but it was only to his private secretary , who advised his grace to over- look it , saying , it would be most prudent . Thus , feeling himself ...
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... continued under the tuition of these gentlemen , at Leicester house , a party was said to have been secretly formed , of which the names and history are but obscurely known , and of which , either from want of authority to establish the ...
... continued under the tuition of these gentlemen , at Leicester house , a party was said to have been secretly formed , of which the names and history are but obscurely known , and of which , either from want of authority to establish the ...
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... advancing years gradually dimi- nished his influence . The war still continued to be waged under the happy auspices of the former with success . Our subsidiary treaty with the king II . of Prussia gave that heroic monarch his usual.
... advancing years gradually dimi- nished his influence . The war still continued to be waged under the happy auspices of the former with success . Our subsidiary treaty with the king II . of Prussia gave that heroic monarch his usual.
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... continued here till November , when Prince Ferdinand formed the design of attacking him before he could call in all his scattered detachments . His highness's plan of attack was made impracticable by the failure of one of his lieutenant ...
... continued here till November , when Prince Ferdinand formed the design of attacking him before he could call in all his scattered detachments . His highness's plan of attack was made impracticable by the failure of one of his lieutenant ...
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... continued to obtain credit , if her sub- sequent conduct had not refuted the early appear- ance of it . Her first proposals contained the fol- lowing articles : 1. The cession and guarranty of Canada to Eng- land under four conditions ...
... continued to obtain credit , if her sub- sequent conduct had not refuted the early appear- ance of it . Her first proposals contained the fol- lowing articles : 1. The cession and guarranty of Canada to Eng- land under four conditions ...
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Էջ 418 - Protestant religion, of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of popery and the inquisition, if these more than popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us ; to turn forth into our settlements among our ancient connections, friends, and relations, the merciless cannibal, thirsting for the blood of man, woman, and child!
Էջ 122 - It is my opinion, that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever.
Էջ 417 - Bench to defend and support the justice of their country : I call upon the bishops...
Էջ 415 - ... of the woods — to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment : unless thoroughly done away, it will be a stain on the national character.
Էջ 123 - House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented by any knight of the shire in any county in this kingdom? Would to God that respectable representation was augmented to a greater number!
Էջ xii - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me, I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Էջ 417 - That God and nature put into our hands! " I know not what ideas that Lord may entertain of God and nature, but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife — to the cannibal savage, torturing, murdering...
Էջ 122 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Էջ 285 - Tis liberty to liberty engaged," that they will defend themselves, their families, and their country. In this great cause they are immovably allied: it is the alliance of God and nature — immutable, eternal — fixed as the firmament of heaven.
Էջ 126 - America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. 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.