History of Great Britain, from the Revolution, 1688, to the Concluding of the Treaty of Amiens, 1802, Հատոր 7R. Phillips, 1805 |
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... says the third : " we must go forward through proscriptions , devastation , and carnage . " Instructed by these political commentaries , future civil and military leaders may learn their best lessons of bar- barity , and improve in ...
... says the third : " we must go forward through proscriptions , devastation , and carnage . " Instructed by these political commentaries , future civil and military leaders may learn their best lessons of bar- barity , and improve in ...
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... says Dr. Johnson , " who in this age of infidelity exclaim Popery ! Popery ! would have cried fire in the midst of the general deluge . " Catholic XIX . 1780 . BOOK fifty thousand persons proceeded in GEORGE IIL 31 . Riots in London ...
... says Dr. Johnson , " who in this age of infidelity exclaim Popery ! Popery ! would have cried fire in the midst of the general deluge . " Catholic XIX . 1780 . BOOK fifty thousand persons proceeded in GEORGE IIL 31 . Riots in London ...
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... says , " has never imagined that your High Mightinesses had approved of a treaty with his rebellious subjects . That had been raising the buckler on your part . But the offence has been committed by a city which makes a considerable ...
... says , " has never imagined that your High Mightinesses had approved of a treaty with his rebellious subjects . That had been raising the buckler on your part . But the offence has been committed by a city which makes a considerable ...
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... says this Aristides of Britain , " of at- tending your business have ever over - balanced the labor . But my attendance during the last parlia- ment has been something worse than laborious - it has been discouraging , grievous , painful ...
... says this Aristides of Britain , " of at- tending your business have ever over - balanced the labor . But my attendance during the last parlia- ment has been something worse than laborious - it has been discouraging , grievous , painful ...
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... ( says he ) that the lands were almost all over - bid for , and many let to indigent and desperate adventurers ; but this was UNAVOIDABLE IN SUCH A MODE . " But this con- sequence being confessedly unavoidable , candor would degenerate ...
... ( says he ) that the lands were almost all over - bid for , and many let to indigent and desperate adventurers ; but this was UNAVOIDABLE IN SUCH A MODE . " But this con- sequence being confessedly unavoidable , candor would degenerate ...
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History of Great Britain, from the Revolution, 1688, to the ..., Հատոր 8 William Belsham Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1805 |
History of Great Britain, from the Revolution, 1688, to the ..., Հատոր 1 William Belsham Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1806 |
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Էջ 202 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Էջ 202 - ... could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in . the gloomy recesses of a mind 'capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic...
Էջ 312 - that the said petition be referred to the consideration of a committee of the whole House, and that the petitioners be heard by themselves before the said committee, if they think fit '
Էջ 441 - Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Էջ 202 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Էջ 343 - Having defended the standard of liberty in this new world, having taught a lesson useful to those who inflict, and to those who feel oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens : but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command, — it will continue to animate remotest ages.
Էջ 183 - What merciless enemy has thus spread the horrors of fire and sword — what severe visitation of Providence has dried up the fountain, and taken from the face of the earth every vestige of verdure ? Or, rather, what monsters have stalked over the country, tainting and poisoning, with pestiferous...
Էջ 207 - No other sovereigns ever were, or, from the nature of things, ever could be, so perfectly indifferent about the happiness or misery of their subjects, the improvement or waste of their dominions, the glory or disgrace of their administration; as, from irresistible moral causes, the greater part of the proprietors of such a mercantile company are, and necessarily must be.
Էջ 342 - ... or a government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
Էջ 25 - That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished: