The History of England, Հատոր 2A. J. Valpy, 1835 |
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... Against whom ? Your protestant brethren ! to lay waste their country , to desolate their dwellings , and extirpate their race and name by the aid and instrumentality of these hell - hounds of war ! Spain can no longer boast pre ...
... Against whom ? Your protestant brethren ! to lay waste their country , to desolate their dwellings , and extirpate their race and name by the aid and instrumentality of these hell - hounds of war ! Spain can no longer boast pre ...
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Էջ 192 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Էջ 339 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
Էջ 338 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Էջ 192 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Էջ 43 - Majesty's servants, at the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mr. Wilkes and at the expense of the Constitution...
Էջ 190 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Էջ 191 - My idea, therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right or grant as matter of favor, is, to admit the people of our colonies into an interest in the Constitution, and, by recording that admission in the...
Էջ 177 - Their situation is truly unworthy, penned up— pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army of impotence. You may call them an army of safety and of guard; but they are in truth an army of impotence and contempt; and, to make the folly equal to the disgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation.
Էջ 134 - I know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies...
Էջ 180 - A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.