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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... remained with the Pelhams , for early in June the king dismissed Lord Sandwich , and the Duke of Bedford resigned the * The majorities varied upon different clauses of the bill , but the average may be taken as about 270 to 90 66 next ...
... remained with the Pelhams , for early in June the king dismissed Lord Sandwich , and the Duke of Bedford resigned the * The majorities varied upon different clauses of the bill , but the average may be taken as about 270 to 90 66 next ...
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... remained at the head of the treasury till a successor should be named : but he was anxious to be gone , and no successor could be found ! Lord Walde- grave , the only man on whom George really relied , was again employed to look out for ...
... remained at the head of the treasury till a successor should be named : but he was anxious to be gone , and no successor could be found ! Lord Walde- grave , the only man on whom George really relied , was again employed to look out for ...
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... remained in office . Pitt , suf- fering or pretending to suffer from the gout , met the king as seldom as possible , and when he made his ap- pearance behaved with proper respect ; but Temple , who had no gout to plead , was frequent in ...
... remained in office . Pitt , suf- fering or pretending to suffer from the gout , met the king as seldom as possible , and when he made his ap- pearance behaved with proper respect ; but Temple , who had no gout to plead , was frequent in ...
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... remained upon the mind of George , he ap- parently thought he should clear himself from the dis- honour of infringing the convention of Closter - Severn by disavowing his son's authority , which he constantly did . The Duke of ...
... remained upon the mind of George , he ap- parently thought he should clear himself from the dis- honour of infringing the convention of Closter - Severn by disavowing his son's authority , which he constantly did . The Duke of ...
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... remained much to do , it was evident the tables were completely turned , and that the French , instead of driving us out of Nova Scotia , would themselves be driven out of the Canadas . In the meanwhile our good ally Frederick was again ...
... remained much to do , it was evident the tables were completely turned , and that the French , instead of driving us out of Nova Scotia , would themselves be driven out of the Canadas . In the meanwhile our good ally Frederick was again ...
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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.