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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... important colony , to the great mortification of France , which pretended that such an establishment was an infraction of the treaty of Aix - la - Chapelle . Nearly at the same time some bodies of English and Scotch be- gan to settle on ...
... important colony , to the great mortification of France , which pretended that such an establishment was an infraction of the treaty of Aix - la - Chapelle . Nearly at the same time some bodies of English and Scotch be- gan to settle on ...
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... important change which immediately followed his ma- jesty's arrival from Hanover , was the sudden and uncour- teous removal of Lord Harrington , who was succeeded in the lieutenancy of Ireland by the Duke of Dorset , then president of ...
... important change which immediately followed his ma- jesty's arrival from Hanover , was the sudden and uncour- teous removal of Lord Harrington , who was succeeded in the lieutenancy of Ireland by the Duke of Dorset , then president of ...
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... importance , as he and his brother , the Duke of Newcastle , had made up their minds to have a new parliament a parliament that should be all of a piece -such a parliament as might serve the king if he lived , and be steady to put the ...
... importance , as he and his brother , the Duke of Newcastle , had made up their minds to have a new parliament a parliament that should be all of a piece -such a parliament as might serve the king if he lived , and be steady to put the ...
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... important embassies , and he died an earl and a Knight of the Garter in 1741 . Introduction to Memoirs from 1754 to 1758 , by James Earl Waldegrave , K.G. pointment of Lord Waldegrave — that the choice was the 32 CABINET HISTORY OF ...
... important embassies , and he died an earl and a Knight of the Garter in 1741 . Introduction to Memoirs from 1754 to 1758 , by James Earl Waldegrave , K.G. pointment of Lord Waldegrave — that the choice was the 32 CABINET HISTORY OF ...
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... importance by marrying Lady Hester Grenville , the sister of Lord Temple . The Duke of Newcastle was soon made aware of the Pitt and Fox alliance , which he determined to break , either by raising Pitt over Fox , or Fox over Pitt ...
... importance by marrying Lady Hester Grenville , the sister of Lord Temple . The Duke of Newcastle was soon made aware of the Pitt and Fox alliance , which he determined to break , either by raising Pitt over Fox , or Fox over Pitt ...
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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.