The History of England, Band 2A. J. Valpy, 1835 |
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... hands of the English - Difficulties in the way of general Burgoyne - Failure of the British against Fort Stanwix and at Benington - Americans retire to Saratoga - Reinforced by Arnold - General Gates takes the command - The British ...
... hands of the English - Difficulties in the way of general Burgoyne - Failure of the British against Fort Stanwix and at Benington - Americans retire to Saratoga - Reinforced by Arnold - General Gates takes the command - The British ...
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... hands of a monk at Rome , which extended its despotism over every catholic country . A common clamor was raised against an institution so dangerous , and the most opposite parties united for its destruction ; but all their exertions ...
... hands of a monk at Rome , which extended its despotism over every catholic country . A common clamor was raised against an institution so dangerous , and the most opposite parties united for its destruction ; but all their exertions ...
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... hands , and exalting the legislation of a tavern to an equality with that of a cabinet . Thus was the democratic spirit unchained and let loose on society : and as if an impersonation of this spirit was required to give it greater ...
... hands , and exalting the legislation of a tavern to an equality with that of a cabinet . Thus was the democratic spirit unchained and let loose on society : and as if an impersonation of this spirit was required to give it greater ...
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... hands of a lawless mob . Nothing could exceed the frenzy of the populace at this time , who assailed the Mansion - house so frequently , as to render a constant guard of soldiers necessary to defend it ; and who stuck up treasonable ...
... hands of a lawless mob . Nothing could exceed the frenzy of the populace at this time , who assailed the Mansion - house so frequently , as to render a constant guard of soldiers necessary to defend it ; and who stuck up treasonable ...
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... hands : such compliance gave them confidence ; and vast numbers of the people in the neighboring counties caught their spirit and assumed their title : they administered oaths , seized arms , and became general reformers ; but were ...
... hands : such compliance gave them confidence ; and vast numbers of the people in the neighboring counties caught their spirit and assumed their title : they administered oaths , seized arms , and became general reformers ; but were ...
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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.