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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... Colonies .... Parlia- mentary Opposition to the Measure .... Speech of Colonel Barré .... Stamp Act carried .... Changes in the Ministry .... The Americans resist the Stamp Act .... Petitions to Parliament for a Repeal of the Act ...
... Colonies .... Parlia- mentary Opposition to the Measure .... Speech of Colonel Barré .... Stamp Act carried .... Changes in the Ministry .... The Americans resist the Stamp Act .... Petitions to Parliament for a Repeal of the Act ...
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... colonies . In March , Mr. Grenville sub- mitted to the house of commons various resolutions respecting new duties to be levied on foreign goods imported into the colònies , which , as commercial regulations , passed with little notice ...
... colonies . In March , Mr. Grenville sub- mitted to the house of commons various resolutions respecting new duties to be levied on foreign goods imported into the colònies , which , as commercial regulations , passed with little notice ...
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... colonies , by imposing a stamp duty , with the offer , however , of substituting any other equally productive tax which the colonists might prefer . This intimation was resented as a menace , and the measures proposed by the minister ...
... colonies , by imposing a stamp duty , with the offer , however , of substituting any other equally productive tax which the colonists might prefer . This intimation was resented as a menace , and the measures proposed by the minister ...
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... colonies . The stamp act , as might have been foreseen , set them in a flame . Ministers do not appear to have acted with much prudence in giving a year's notice of their intention to impose it : the delay allowed time for the accu ...
... colonies . The stamp act , as might have been foreseen , set them in a flame . Ministers do not appear to have acted with much prudence in giving a year's notice of their intention to impose it : the delay allowed time for the accu ...
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... colonies . The cessation of commercial intercourse between the two countries was presently felt , and the tables of both houses were soon covered with petitions from the most considerable commercial and manufacturing towns , complaining ...
... colonies . The cessation of commercial intercourse between the two countries was presently felt , and the tables of both houses were soon covered with petitions from the most considerable commercial and manufacturing towns , complaining ...
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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...