The History of England, Band 2A. J. Valpy, 1835 |
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... arms in America -Copies of the treaties with German potentates for troops laid before the house - Debates thereon - Duke of Grafton's motion for an address to his majesty - Mr . Hartley's in the com- mons -- Mr . Sawbridge's motion ...
... arms in America -Copies of the treaties with German potentates for troops laid before the house - Debates thereon - Duke of Grafton's motion for an address to his majesty - Mr . Hartley's in the com- mons -- Mr . Sawbridge's motion ...
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... arms and ammunition , under the pretext of a war with France being apprehended . The convention , which was attended by deputies from every town except Hatfield , met on the twenty - second of September , and sent a com- munication to ...
... arms and ammunition , under the pretext of a war with France being apprehended . The convention , which was attended by deputies from every town except Hatfield , met on the twenty - second of September , and sent a com- munication to ...
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... arm of the law , now returned to brave its terrors ; and by ex- aggerating every pressure , inflaming every discontent , and giving a shape to every imaginary evil , he soon became the idol of that mob , which requires its champion to ...
... arm of the law , now returned to brave its terrors ; and by ex- aggerating every pressure , inflaming every discontent , and giving a shape to every imaginary evil , he soon became the idol of that mob , which requires its champion to ...
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... arm of civil authority appeared too weak to curb the headstrong passions of the people , and to prevent the dissolution of social order . Whilst lord Barrington was considering what was best to be done in this critical and embarrassing ...
... arm of civil authority appeared too weak to curb the headstrong passions of the people , and to prevent the dissolution of social order . Whilst lord Barrington was considering what was best to be done in this critical and embarrassing ...
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... arms , and became general reformers ; but were guilty of great ex- cesses , and violent acts of inhumanity : some were taken and tried at Carrickfergus , but acquitted by the partiality or terror of the witnesses and jury . The ...
... arms , and became general reformers ; but were guilty of great ex- cesses , and violent acts of inhumanity : some were taken and tried at Carrickfergus , but acquitted by the partiality or terror of the witnesses and jury . The ...
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Seite 192 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Seite 339 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
Seite 338 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 192 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Seite 43 - Majesty's servants, at the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mr. Wilkes and at the expense of the Constitution...
Seite 190 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Seite 191 - My idea, therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right or grant as matter of favor, is, to admit the people of our colonies into an interest in the Constitution, and, by recording that admission in the...
Seite 177 - Their situation is truly unworthy, penned up— pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army of impotence. You may call them an army of safety and of guard; but they are in truth an army of impotence and contempt; and, to make the folly equal to the disgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation.
Seite 134 - I know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies...
Seite 180 - A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.