History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... Honours paid to his memory 221 ib . 222 ib . 223 ib . 224 ib . 225 - 226 ib . · 227 - ib . Last appearance of Chatham in the House of Lords - 229 - 231 232 His public funeral 234 Lord North continues Minister 235 Motion of Sir Philip ...
... Honours paid to his memory 221 ib . 222 ib . 223 ib . 224 ib . 225 - 226 ib . · 227 - ib . Last appearance of Chatham in the House of Lords - 229 - 231 232 His public funeral 234 Lord North continues Minister 235 Motion of Sir Philip ...
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... honour of it gave me the more pleasure , as it happened on ( the 29th of January ) the " very day twelvemonth that the Ministry had taken so " much pains to disgrace me before the Privy Council . " 66 66 66 On the Tuesday following ...
... honour of it gave me the more pleasure , as it happened on ( the 29th of January ) the " very day twelvemonth that the Ministry had taken so " much pains to disgrace me before the Privy Council . " 66 66 66 On the Tuesday following ...
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... honour and prosperity " that angel should have drawn up the curtain and un- " folded the rising glories of his country , and whilst he 66 66 66 - - 66 66 6 6 " was gazing with admiration on VOL . VI . D 1775 . 33 RESOLUTIONS MOVED BY ...
... honour and prosperity " that angel should have drawn up the curtain and un- " folded the rising glories of his country , and whilst he 66 66 66 - - 66 66 6 6 " was gazing with admiration on VOL . VI . D 1775 . 33 RESOLUTIONS MOVED BY ...
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... honour to himself ; he had four bullets through his coat and two horses killed under him . † Almost im- mediately afterwards he was named Colonel and com- mander of the whole Virginian force . In this post his behaviour was such as to ...
... honour to himself ; he had four bullets through his coat and two horses killed under him . † Almost im- mediately afterwards he was named Colonel and com- mander of the whole Virginian force . In this post his behaviour was such as to ...
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... HONOUR ! * Nor was Washington in any measure open to the same reproach as the ancient Romans , or some of his own countrymen at present , that while eager for freedom themselves they would rivet the chains of their slave . To him at ...
... HONOUR ! * Nor was Washington in any measure open to the same reproach as the ancient Romans , or some of his own countrymen at present , that while eager for freedom themselves they would rivet the chains of their slave . To him at ...
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according Address afterwards already American appears appointed arms army arrived authority believe Bill body Boston British Burgoyne called cause Chatham chief close Colonel Colonies command Commons Congress consider continued Correspondence desired directed doubt enemy England English expected expressed feeling fire follows force Franklin French friends further give Government ground hand head Hill honour hope House John King land late least less letter Lord Chatham Lord North March Massachusetts means measure mind Ministers months nearly never object observed occasion officers opposite Parliament party passed peace perhaps period persons Philadelphia present proposed province raised rank received Resolutions respect says seemed sent showed side speech spirit supplies taken thousand took town troops United vote Washington whole writes York
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Seite 61 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Seite 198 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Seite 202 - ... 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.
Seite 49 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Seite 64 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Seite 290 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 34 - If amidst these bright and happy scenes of domestic honour and prosperity, that angel should have drawn up the curtain, and unfolded the rising glories of his country, and whilst he was gazing with admiration on the then commercial grandeur of England, the genius should...
Seite 201 - 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...
Seite 301 - My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.
Seite 23 - 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.