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... arms of the house of Bourbon . -Abolition of the practice of putting the question by torture . - Reform in the state appointments . - Change of ministers . 1781 . 1782 . 1783 . 1784.- -Events of the naval campaign not favourable to the ...
... arms of the house of Bourbon . -Abolition of the practice of putting the question by torture . - Reform in the state appointments . - Change of ministers . 1781 . 1782 . 1783 . 1784.- -Events of the naval campaign not favourable to the ...
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... arms ; pretending that they did it to prevent the enterprises of the magistrates against the freedom of the constitution.— A tumult ensued , in which the magistrates and the citizens who supported them prevailed : And the issue of the ...
... arms ; pretending that they did it to prevent the enterprises of the magistrates against the freedom of the constitution.— A tumult ensued , in which the magistrates and the citizens who supported them prevailed : And the issue of the ...
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... arms , this year , in Moldavia and the Mediterranean increased the alarm which the empress's proceedings in Poland gave to the neighbouring powers . For that reason , the emperor and the king of Prussia thought it necessary to pay a ...
... arms , this year , in Moldavia and the Mediterranean increased the alarm which the empress's proceedings in Poland gave to the neighbouring powers . For that reason , the emperor and the king of Prussia thought it necessary to pay a ...
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... arms in other parts . Count Panin had been engaged some days before Bender when he was informed of the victory at Kagul , and received a reinforcement in consequence of it . Prosorouski had , moreover , co - operated with him by ...
... arms in other parts . Count Panin had been engaged some days before Bender when he was informed of the victory at Kagul , and received a reinforcement in consequence of it . Prosorouski had , moreover , co - operated with him by ...
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... arms , and the brilliant entertainments and sumptuous banquets + December 3 . See Germany . given k Mem . de Fred . II . 5. 56. Tooke , 2. 11. 26 , • given in honour of the Prussian prince , were 32 RUSSIA , TURKEY , AND POLAND .
... arms , and the brilliant entertainments and sumptuous banquets + December 3 . See Germany . given k Mem . de Fred . II . 5. 56. Tooke , 2. 11. 26 , • given in honour of the Prussian prince , were 32 RUSSIA , TURKEY , AND POLAND .
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Seite 230 - ... that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved...
Seite 193 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Seite 186 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.
Seite 150 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them, in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Seite 7 - Permit me, sire, further to observe, that whoever has already dared, or shall hereafter endeavour, by false insinuations and suggestions, to alienate your Majesty's affections from your loyal subjects in general, and from the City of London in particular, and to withdraw your confidence...
Seite 277 - You cannot conciliate America by your present measures. You cannot subdue her by your present or by any measures. What, then, can you do ? You cannot conquer ; you cannot gain ; but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them.
Seite 277 - I CANNOT, my lords, I WILL NOT join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment : it is not a time for adulation : the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne, in the language of TRUTH.
Seite 296 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy!
Seite 141 - Principes pro victoria pugnant; comites pro principe. Si civitas, in qua orti sunt, longa pace et otio torpeat plerique nobilium...
Seite 277 - As to the disposition of foreign powers, which is asserted to be pacific and friendly, let us judge, my Lords, rather by their actions and the nature of things than by interested assertions. The uniform assistance supplied to America by France suggests a different conclusion. The most important interests of France, in aggrandising and enriching herself with what she most wants, supplies of every naval store from America, must inspire her with different sentiments.