The History of England, Band 2A. J. Valpy, 1835 |
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... charge of altering the records : 10 the slight amendment made therein he thought it his duty to allow ; nor could he have refused it without opposing the uniform practice of all the judges : yet this charge , consistent both with law ...
... charge of altering the records : 10 the slight amendment made therein he thought it his duty to allow ; nor could he have refused it without opposing the uniform practice of all the judges : yet this charge , consistent both with law ...
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... charge of felony , they marched to his rescue , having been joined by thousands of the peasantry ; and the prisoner , to prevent the effusion of blood , was delivered into their hands : such compliance gave them confidence ; and vast ...
... charge of felony , they marched to his rescue , having been joined by thousands of the peasantry ; and the prisoner , to prevent the effusion of blood , was delivered into their hands : such compliance gave them confidence ; and vast ...
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... charge also against Mr. Webb was not proved , a vote of severe censure against the petition was moved , but afterwards modified into a declaration , that the aspersions contained in it were fri- volous . ' After this , a complaint was ...
... charge also against Mr. Webb was not proved , a vote of severe censure against the petition was moved , but afterwards modified into a declaration , that the aspersions contained in it were fri- volous . ' After this , a complaint was ...
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... charges made against his domestic and foreign policy . Lord Chatham next rose , and in a long but animated speech ... charge of government to lord North . The new premier , with whose administration commences a momentous era in the ...
... charges made against his domestic and foreign policy . Lord Chatham next rose , and in a long but animated speech ... charge of government to lord North . The new premier , with whose administration commences a momentous era in the ...
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... charge to the jury , said , ' there were only two points for their consideration : the printing and publishing of the paper , which was acknowleged ; and the sense and meaning of it : that as to the charges of its malice , sedition ...
... charge to the jury , said , ' there were only two points for their consideration : the printing and publishing of the paper , which was acknowleged ; and the sense and meaning of it : that as to the charges of its malice , sedition ...
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Seite 192 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Seite 339 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
Seite 338 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 192 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Seite 43 - Majesty's servants, at the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mr. Wilkes and at the expense of the Constitution...
Seite 190 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Seite 191 - My idea, therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right or grant as matter of favor, is, to admit the people of our colonies into an interest in the Constitution, and, by recording that admission in the...
Seite 177 - Their situation is truly unworthy, penned up— pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army of impotence. You may call them an army of safety and of guard; but they are in truth an army of impotence and contempt; and, to make the folly equal to the disgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation.
Seite 134 - I know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies...
Seite 180 - A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.