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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... considered as a negative . The king of Portugal returned a conciliatory answer , in which he expressed his determination not to break his ancient alliance with England , but to maintain an exact neutrality . The associated powers ...
... considered as a negative . The king of Portugal returned a conciliatory answer , in which he expressed his determination not to break his ancient alliance with England , but to maintain an exact neutrality . The associated powers ...
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... considered to be almost impregnable . After a siege of forty - four days , during which the British forces had to sustain astonishing difficulties , the place was stormed , and carried at the point of the bayonet . On the 14th August ...
... considered to be almost impregnable . After a siege of forty - four days , during which the British forces had to sustain astonishing difficulties , the place was stormed , and carried at the point of the bayonet . On the 14th August ...
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... considered the earl of Bute to be permanently fixed in his seat , that he astonished the public by a sudden resignation . An event so unexpected gave rise to various specu- lations . His own declaration , and the language of his friends ...
... considered the earl of Bute to be permanently fixed in his seat , that he astonished the public by a sudden resignation . An event so unexpected gave rise to various specu- lations . His own declaration , and the language of his friends ...
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... , on his recovery withdrew to France . The cabinet , which had never been considered as possessing much strength , was , at this time , still further enfeebled by the death of the earl of Egre- 34 C. II . HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... , on his recovery withdrew to France . The cabinet , which had never been considered as possessing much strength , was , at this time , still further enfeebled by the death of the earl of Egre- 34 C. II . HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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... considered it to be unconstitutional : the inexpediency of it formed no part of their legislative complaints . They denied the right of parliament to impose taxes upon them ; but they never pretended that the duties imposed by the stamp ...
... considered it to be unconstitutional : the inexpediency of it formed no part of their legislative complaints . They denied the right of parliament to impose taxes upon them ; but they never pretended that the duties imposed by the stamp ...
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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...