The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical: From the Invasion by Julius Caesar to the Year 1846, Band 9Blackie and Son, 1851 |
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... honour- able to that House . In speaking of the best means of extinguishing the spirit of rebellion and anarchy in the North , Lord Chesterfield had recommended " schools and villages to civilise the Highlands ; " * and the peers , in ...
... honour- able to that House . In speaking of the best means of extinguishing the spirit of rebellion and anarchy in the North , Lord Chesterfield had recommended " schools and villages to civilise the Highlands ; " * and the peers , in ...
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... honour of Eng- land ; but the overbearing eloquence of Pitt kept the House of Commons in order , and the feeble voice of op- position in parliament was almost hushed . This fiery pa- triot of former days seems to have stuck at nothing ...
... honour of Eng- land ; but the overbearing eloquence of Pitt kept the House of Commons in order , and the feeble voice of op- position in parliament was almost hushed . This fiery pa- triot of former days seems to have stuck at nothing ...
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... honour of a truly honourable and upright man . The Princess of Wales's secretary , Cresset , was related to the royal family by a Duchess of Zell , who was daughter of a private French gen- tleman , and mother to Sophia Dorothea , the ...
... honour of a truly honourable and upright man . The Princess of Wales's secretary , Cresset , was related to the royal family by a Duchess of Zell , who was daughter of a private French gen- tleman , and mother to Sophia Dorothea , the ...
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... and trucksters - but George stuck to his 700,000 , and the quarrel with Vienna , fanned by France , grew hotter . The Duke of VOL . XVII . C Newcastle thought it necessary to declare that the honour of A.D. 1752. ] 29 GEORGE II .
... and trucksters - but George stuck to his 700,000 , and the quarrel with Vienna , fanned by France , grew hotter . The Duke of VOL . XVII . C Newcastle thought it necessary to declare that the honour of A.D. 1752. ] 29 GEORGE II .
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... honour of the king his master and the reputation of the people of England were at stake ! * George found no relief from these Continental embar- rassments in the squabbles which had broken out in his own family , or in the household of ...
... honour of the king his master and the reputation of the people of England were at stake ! * George found no relief from these Continental embar- rassments in the squabbles which had broken out in his own family , or in the household of ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 183 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 212 - On the 17th, it was resolved, that John Wilkes, Esq. having been in this session of parliament expelled the House, was, and is, incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.
Seite 102 - They were not of the nature of private letters between friends. They were written by public officers to persons in public stations, on public affairs, and intended to procure public measures; they were therefore handed to other public persons, who might be influenced by them to produce those measures. Their tendency was to incense the mother country against her colonies, and, by the steps recommended, to widen the breach; which they effected.
Seite 183 - The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 179 - I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast, that I was the first minister who looked for it, and found it, in the mountains of the North.
Seite 153 - Single in a cabinet of my own forming; no aid in the House of Lords to support me, except two peers (Lords Denbigh and Pomfret) ; both the secretaries of state silent, and the lord chief justice, whom I myself brought into office, voting for me yet speaking against me ; the ground I tread upon is so hollow that I am afraid, not only of falling myself but of involving my royal master in my ruin. It is time for me to retire !" He was followed by Sir Francis Dashwood, his incompetent chancellor of the...
Seite 102 - I alone am the person who obtained and transmitted to Boston the letters in question. Mr. Whately could not communicate them, because they were never in his possession ; and for the same reason they could not be taken from him by Mr.
Seite 200 - ... obtain them but by establishing your army upon a permanent footing, and giving your officers good pay. This will induce gentlemen and men of character...
Seite 189 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, 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 59 - ... sake, as well as in justice to the prisoner, we pray your lordships, in the most earnest manner, to recommend him to his majesty's clemency.