John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Band 5John Frederick Smith W. Kent and Company, 1861 |
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... opposition from lord George Sackville , who complained of the wonderful expenditure which had taken place in the German wars , and denounced this as excessive . Pitt started up to defend himself against any charge of cor- ruption in the ...
... opposition from lord George Sackville , who complained of the wonderful expenditure which had taken place in the German wars , and denounced this as excessive . Pitt started up to defend himself against any charge of cor- ruption in the ...
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... opposition to this in the cabinet , and the duke of Bedford was instructed to demand Florida or Porto Rico in lieu of the Havanna . Florida was yielded - a fatal , though at the moment it appeared a valuable concession , for it only ...
... opposition to this in the cabinet , and the duke of Bedford was instructed to demand Florida or Porto Rico in lieu of the Havanna . Florida was yielded - a fatal , though at the moment it appeared a valuable concession , for it only ...
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... The conduct of Bute in surrounding the king with his creatures , in which he was joined by the princess of Wales , added greatly A. D. 1763. ] OPPOSITION TO THE CIDER TAX . 26 [ GEORGE III . CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... The conduct of Bute in surrounding the king with his creatures , in which he was joined by the princess of Wales , added greatly A. D. 1763. ] OPPOSITION TO THE CIDER TAX . 26 [ GEORGE III . CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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John Frederick Smith. A. D. 1763. ] OPPOSITION TO THE CIDER TAX . 27 to the public odium . George was always of a domestic and equally profligate , and still more lewd . There these retiring character , and he was now rarely seen ...
John Frederick Smith. A. D. 1763. ] OPPOSITION TO THE CIDER TAX . 27 to the public odium . George was always of a domestic and equally profligate , and still more lewd . There these retiring character , and he was now rarely seen ...
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... opposition of that country had voted with government against him in their spleen . Dun made a second attempt to get access to Wilkes ; and a new penknife being found in his pocket , the friends of Wilkes in the commons charged him with ...
... opposition of that country had voted with government against him in their spleen . Dun made a second attempt to get access to Wilkes ; and a new penknife being found in his pocket , the friends of Wilkes in the commons charged him with ...
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Seite 243 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Seite 432 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 190 - From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord* frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.
Seite 3 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Seite 51 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Seite 48 - 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.
Seite 114 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
Seite 106 - SIR, — His Majesty has thought proper to order a new commission of the Treasury to be made out, in which I do not perceive your name.
Seite 393 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.
Seite 47 - Majesty, the property of your Majesty's commons of America. It is an absurdity in terms. The distinction between legislation and taxation is essentially necessary to liberty. The Crown, the Peers, are equally legislative powers with the Commons. If taxation be a part of simple legislation, the Crown...