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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... passed into a law . In the course of the summer an almost total change took place in the ministry , but it was still to the exclusion of Mr. Pitt and his friends . The king had repeated consultations with him upon the subject of framing ...
... passed into a law . In the course of the summer an almost total change took place in the ministry , but it was still to the exclusion of Mr. Pitt and his friends . The king had repeated consultations with him upon the subject of framing ...
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... passed , condemning in strong terms the resistance made in America to the orders of the government , and annulling all the proceedings of the colonial assemblies , derogatory to the authority of Great Britain . E 2 1766 . 41 GEORGE III .
... passed , condemning in strong terms the resistance made in America to the orders of the government , and annulling all the proceedings of the colonial assemblies , derogatory to the authority of Great Britain . E 2 1766 . 41 GEORGE III .
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... passed the declaratory act , more arbitrary and more alarming than the other ; and by this pre- posterous policy , kept alive the jealousy which the stamp act had excited , whilst they abandoned all the benefits which it was designed to ...
... passed the declaratory act , more arbitrary and more alarming than the other ; and by this pre- posterous policy , kept alive the jealousy which the stamp act had excited , whilst they abandoned all the benefits which it was designed to ...
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... passed both houses of parliament , and received the royal assent in June ; but no sooner was the measure known in America , than it revived all the former discontents . At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Boston in October ...
... passed both houses of parliament , and received the royal assent in June ; but no sooner was the measure known in America , than it revived all the former discontents . At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Boston in October ...
Էջ 57
... passed in the house of lords , and adopted by the commons , declaring those acts to be illegal and unconstitutional that had been enacted by the assem- bly of Massachuset's Bay , calling in question the authority of the British ...
... passed in the house of lords , and adopted by the commons , declaring those acts to be illegal and unconstitutional that had been enacted by the assem- bly of Massachuset's Bay , calling in question the authority of the British ...
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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...