History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Band 6Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... seemed to him rather the work of some American ; and here he looked full at Dr. Franklin who was leaning on the Bar . He concluded with the motion that the Bill should be at once rejected . Several Peers , as Shelburne and Camden ...
... seemed to him rather the work of some American ; and here he looked full at Dr. Franklin who was leaning on the Bar . He concluded with the motion that the Bill should be at once rejected . Several Peers , as Shelburne and Camden ...
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... seemed unworthy of its care . His ledgers and day - books were kept by himself ; he took note of all the houses where he partook of hospi- tality , so that not even the smallest courtesies might pass by unremembered ; and until his ...
... seemed unworthy of its care . His ledgers and day - books were kept by himself ; he took note of all the houses where he partook of hospi- tality , so that not even the smallest courtesies might pass by unremembered ; and until his ...
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... seemed a stroke of policy to draw in some one of the Southern States , as Virginia , more closely with them by selecting the General from that quarter . Thus all the deputies from New England , contrary to expectation , and much to the ...
... seemed a stroke of policy to draw in some one of the Southern States , as Virginia , more closely with them by selecting the General from that quarter . Thus all the deputies from New England , contrary to expectation , and much to the ...
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... seemed to him that considering the enemy's works around the bay , and the thorough disaffection in the province , Boston would be a most unfavourable point from whence to issue in the ensuing spring , and begin the campaign against the ...
... seemed to him that considering the enemy's works around the bay , and the thorough disaffection in the province , Boston would be a most unfavourable point from whence to issue in the ensuing spring , and begin the campaign against the ...
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... seemed close at hand , to be fought on the anniversary of that event most unjustly and wrongfully termed the Mas- sacre of Boston . That event was fresh in the minds of the enemy , and a cry of " Remember the fifth of March ! ran along ...
... seemed close at hand , to be fought on the anniversary of that event most unjustly and wrongfully termed the Mas- sacre of Boston . That event was fresh in the minds of the enemy , and a cry of " Remember the fifth of March ! ran along ...
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Seite 60 - ... 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 329 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Seite 203 - ... 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 21 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Seite 263 - ... the peerage more than I do ; — but, my lords, I must say, that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more, I can say, and will say, that as a peer of parliament, as speaker of this right...
Seite 48 - 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 202 - 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 34 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it...
Seite 320 - 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 - 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.