History of the eighteenth century and of the nineteenth till the overthrow of the French empire, tr., with a preface and notes, by D. Davison, Band 5 |
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... Paris , was moreover re- garded as a good and honourable man , because he had never committed any great crimes , and was besides kind and some- times beneficent with his superfluity . The king therefore availed himself of his advice and ...
... Paris , was moreover re- garded as a good and honourable man , because he had never committed any great crimes , and was besides kind and some- times beneficent with his superfluity . The king therefore availed himself of his advice and ...
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... Paris and another to Petersburg , and fully stated the circumstances of the case and his grounds of action , both Russia and France declared their determination to maintain the state of things established by the peace of Teschen . From ...
... Paris and another to Petersburg , and fully stated the circumstances of the case and his grounds of action , both Russia and France declared their determination to maintain the state of things established by the peace of Teschen . From ...
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... Paris was announced , the person of his majesty and those of his ministers , with such vulgarity and vehemence , that if the prosecution had not been mismanaged , he could not have escaped condemnation . But the king and his secretaries ...
... Paris was announced , the person of his majesty and those of his ministers , with such vulgarity and vehemence , that if the prosecution had not been mismanaged , he could not have escaped condemnation . But the king and his secretaries ...
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... Paris ; and as Wilkes had seized upon the terms of the peace as an opportunity for publishing gross libels against the king and his ministers , this gave them an opportunity of introducing this subject also into the speech . Parliament ...
... Paris ; and as Wilkes had seized upon the terms of the peace as an opportunity for publishing gross libels against the king and his ministers , this gave them an opportunity of introducing this subject also into the speech . Parliament ...
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... Paris , for their vehemence with Mirabeau's speeches alone , and for their severity and malice with Marat's ' Friend of the People ' ( L'Ami de Peuple ) . In these letters , the English constitution was represented for the first time in ...
... Paris , for their vehemence with Mirabeau's speeches alone , and for their severity and malice with Marat's ' Friend of the People ' ( L'Ami de Peuple ) . In these letters , the English constitution was represented for the first time in ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 299 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the treaty or treaties that shall terminate the war.
Seite 60 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone.
Seite 200 - A variety of others have been made since of different sizes; some to be set in the lids of snuffboxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon...
Seite 314 - His Majesty allowed Earl Temple to say that whoever voted for the India Bill was not only not his friend, but would be considered by him as an enemy ; and if these words were not strong enough, Earl Temple might use whatever words he might deem stronger and more to the purpose.
Seite 299 - For this purpose you are to make the most candid and confidential communications upon all subjects to the ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge and concurrence and ultimately to govern yourselves by their advice and Opinion...
Seite 308 - An Act for establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe...
Seite 75 - ... living, reduced to this conclusion, that instead of the arbitrary power of a king, we must submit to the arbitrary power of a house of commons?
Seite 73 - They will either conelude that our distresses were imaginary, or that we had the good fortune to be governed by men of acknowledged integrity and wisdom: they will not believe it possible that their ancestors could have survived, or recovered from so desperate a condition, while a Duke of Grafton was Prime Minister...
Seite 94 - The Lords of the Committee do agree humbly to report, as their opinion, to your Majesty, that the said petition is founded upon resolutions formed upon false and erroneous allegations; and that the same is groundless, vexatious, and scandalous; and calculated only for the seditious purposes of keeping up a spirit of clamor and discontent in the said province.
Seite 77 - Under the same secret and malign influence, which, through each successive administration, has defeated every good, and suggested every bad, intention, the majority of the House of Commons have deprived your people of their dearest rights. They have done a deed more ruinous in its consequences than the levying of ship-money by Charles the First, or the dispensing power assumed by James the Second.