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... passing notice of a subject even so familiar as the chivalry of the Middle Ages . The principles of action recognised by a member of the order of Chivalry , as at once the rules of his conduct in this life , and the foundation of his ...
... passing notice of a subject even so familiar as the chivalry of the Middle Ages . The principles of action recognised by a member of the order of Chivalry , as at once the rules of his conduct in this life , and the foundation of his ...
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... passed in the reign of Henry the Seventh . The amazing intellectual progress of the six- sixteenth cen- teenth century would have been merely impossible under the spiritual domination of Rome . Her thunder would have been pointed at the ...
... passed in the reign of Henry the Seventh . The amazing intellectual progress of the six- sixteenth cen- teenth century would have been merely impossible under the spiritual domination of Rome . Her thunder would have been pointed at the ...
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... passed since Wicliff had originated the movement against Rome ; and with little encou- ragement from authority , and in spite of- or we should rather say , perhaps , with the aid of— persecution , the doctrines of the first reformer had ...
... passed since Wicliff had originated the movement against Rome ; and with little encou- ragement from authority , and in spite of- or we should rather say , perhaps , with the aid of— persecution , the doctrines of the first reformer had ...
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... passed into the hands of laymen , who introduced a new element into the . rural society of England . The tenant by knight- service , when no longer required to unfurl his pennon , soon forgot his feudal obligations , and subsided into ...
... passed into the hands of laymen , who introduced a new element into the . rural society of England . The tenant by knight- service , when no longer required to unfurl his pennon , soon forgot his feudal obligations , and subsided into ...
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... passing his time in field - sports and drinking bouts , he was to be seen at fashionable assemblies , or sauntering at water- ing places , or in attendance at the levees of great men . The aim of a clergyman , who frequented THE ...
... passing his time in field - sports and drinking bouts , he was to be seen at fashionable assemblies , or sauntering at water- ing places , or in attendance at the levees of great men . The aim of a clergyman , who frequented THE ...
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Página 346 - to use all the means which God and Nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house or in this country...
Página 346 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never!
Página 345 - You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent: doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely.
Página 206 - No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of threepence. But no commodity will bear threepence, or will bear a penny, when the general feelings of men are irritated, and two millions of people are resolved not to pay. The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings.* Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment...
Página 365 - My lords, his majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied. Shall we tarnish the lustre of this nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions...
Página 430 - I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men...
Página 255 - Council, and Assembly, or General Court, of any of his Majesty's Provinces or Colonies in America, shall propose to make provision, according to the condition, circumstances, and situation of such Province or Colony, for contributing their proportion to the common defence, (such proportion to be raised under the authority...
Página 450 - That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished «: and Mr.
Página 201 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation...
Página 443 - But what, I confess, was uppermost with me, what I bent the whole force of my mind to, was the reduction of that corrupt influence which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality and of all disorder, — which loads us more than millions of debt, — which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our Constitution.