The History of England, Band 2A. J. Valpy, 1835 |
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... in consequence of the revenue act • page 1 CHAP . XI . Domestic troubles and commotions - Difficulties in arranging the government - Democratic spirit - Wilkes - His application to the duke of Grafton neglected - His return - Is.
... in consequence of the revenue act • page 1 CHAP . XI . Domestic troubles and commotions - Difficulties in arranging the government - Democratic spirit - Wilkes - His application to the duke of Grafton neglected - His return - Is.
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... Spirit of the colonies , especially that of Massachussetts - Ex- pedition to seize stores at Salem - Affair of Lexington - Formation of an army by the provincials , and other measures - Arrival of lord North's conciliatory propositions ...
... Spirit of the colonies , especially that of Massachussetts - Ex- pedition to seize stores at Salem - Affair of Lexington - Formation of an army by the provincials , and other measures - Arrival of lord North's conciliatory propositions ...
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... spirit . The general opinion however appeared to be , that they should be brought to a sense of duty by firm but moderate proceedings ; and a bill was passed , to suspend the legislative power of the assembly until it should comply with ...
... spirit . The general opinion however appeared to be , that they should be brought to a sense of duty by firm but moderate proceedings ; and a bill was passed , to suspend the legislative power of the assembly until it should comply with ...
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... spirit and encouragement to men who aimed at overturning all govern- ment in church or state ; and without doubt hastened that grand catastrophe which soon followed . The effect must in- deed have been strongly felt in France ; which ...
... spirit and encouragement to men who aimed at overturning all govern- ment in church or state ; and without doubt hastened that grand catastrophe which soon followed . The effect must in- deed have been strongly felt in France ; which ...
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... spirit of the nobility ; for drawing the common people from their reliance on the natural interests of the country , to an immediate dependence on the crown ; and principally for enabling ministers , public or secret , to domineer and ...
... spirit of the nobility ; for drawing the common people from their reliance on the natural interests of the country , to an immediate dependence on the crown ; and principally for enabling ministers , public or secret , to domineer and ...
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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.