The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George the Third, Հատոր 17T. Tegg, 1828 |
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... North America were reduced to the necessity of suing for peace , by an expedition to their country , after having many of their towns destroyed . ' The new parliament assembled on the 6th No- vember , and was opened with a speech from ...
... North America were reduced to the necessity of suing for peace , by an expedition to their country , after having many of their towns destroyed . ' The new parliament assembled on the 6th No- vember , and was opened with a speech from ...
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... North Briton , and John Wilkes .... Com- mittal of Wilkes to the Tower .... General Warrants ... declared illegal by Chief Justice Pratt .... Death of the Earl of Egremont . ... Duke of Bedford's Ministry .... Wilkes is expelled the ...
... North Briton , and John Wilkes .... Com- mittal of Wilkes to the Tower .... General Warrants ... declared illegal by Chief Justice Pratt .... Death of the Earl of Egremont . ... Duke of Bedford's Ministry .... Wilkes is expelled the ...
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... North Briton . The session of parliament ended on the 23d April , and the speech with which it closed was attacked with sin- gular virulence in the forty - fifth number of that work , written by John Wilkes , Esq . M. P. for Ayles- the ...
... North Briton . The session of parliament ended on the 23d April , and the speech with which it closed was attacked with sin- gular virulence in the forty - fifth number of that work , written by John Wilkes , Esq . M. P. for Ayles- the ...
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... North Briton had long been distin- guished by the coarse invective and scurrilous ribal- dry with which it indiscriminately assailed all the measures of government , it was perhaps wisely allowed to pass without notice , till , on the ...
... North Briton had long been distin- guished by the coarse invective and scurrilous ribal- dry with which it indiscriminately assailed all the measures of government , it was perhaps wisely allowed to pass without notice , till , on the ...
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... North Briton , which had already been voted a seditious libel , contained ex- pressions of the most unexampled insolence and contumely towards his majesty , the grossest asper- sions against both houses of parliament , and the most ...
... North Briton , which had already been voted a seditious libel , contained ex- pressions of the most unexampled insolence and contumely towards his majesty , the grossest asper- sions against both houses of parliament , and the most ...
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Էջ 148 - I appeal to the wisdom and the law of this learned bench, to defend and support the justice of their country. I call upon the bishops...
Էջ 148 - I call upon the honor of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Էջ 158 - ... commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom, but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. Any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort, and if we must fall, let us fall like men.
Էջ 148 - 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, roasting, and eating; literally, my Lords, eating the mangled victims of his barbarous battles!
Էջ 161 - Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. The sight of his mind was infinite; and his schemes were to affect, not England, not the present age only, but Europe and posterity.
Էջ 149 - 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 148 - Indian scalping-knife — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering, roasting, and eating; literally, my lords, eating the mangled victims of his barbarous battles ! Such horrible notions shock every precept of religion, divine or natural, and every generous feeling of humanity.
Էջ 41 - 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 146 - ... 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 149 - Spain ; in vain he defended and established the honour, the liberties, the religion — the 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...