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... which excited the highest hopes of the nation , while its destination remained unknown ; and it was for- tunately crowned with signal success . Ten ships of the line , under the command of commodore Keppel , 14 C. I. HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... which excited the highest hopes of the nation , while its destination remained unknown ; and it was for- tunately crowned with signal success . Ten ships of the line , under the command of commodore Keppel , 14 C. I. HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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... command of commodore Keppel , and nearly ten thousand land forces , commanded by major - general Hodgson , were destined to make a descent on Belleisle , on the coast of France . The British fleet appeared before the island on the 7th ...
... command of commodore Keppel , and nearly ten thousand land forces , commanded by major - general Hodgson , were destined to make a descent on Belleisle , on the coast of France . The British fleet appeared before the island on the 7th ...
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... command of lord Rollo and sir James Douglas ; and about the same time the Cherokee Indians in North America were reduced to the necessity of suing for peace , by an expedition to their country , after having many of their towns ...
... command of lord Rollo and sir James Douglas ; and about the same time the Cherokee Indians in North America were reduced to the necessity of suing for peace , by an expedition to their country , after having many of their towns ...
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... command of the Portuguese army . He dispatched brigadier - general Burgoyne , with a de- tachment of British troops , to attack an advanced body of Spaniards which lay at Valencia ; the result was a complete surprise , in which the ...
... command of the Portuguese army . He dispatched brigadier - general Burgoyne , with a de- tachment of British troops , to attack an advanced body of Spaniards which lay at Valencia ; the result was a complete surprise , in which the ...
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... command of sir George Pococke and the earl of . Albemarle , which sailed from Portsmouth on the 5th March , and arrived off the Havanah , June 5th . The difficulties of the enterprise seemed to dispirit the most sanguine , and they ...
... command of sir George Pococke and the earl of . Albemarle , which sailed from Portsmouth on the 5th March , and arrived off the Havanah , June 5th . The difficulties of the enterprise seemed to dispirit the most sanguine , and they ...
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Página 148 - I appeal to the wisdom and the law of this learned bench, to defend and support the justice of their country. I call upon the bishops...
Página 148 - I call upon the honor of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Página 158 - ... commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom, but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. Any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort, and if we must fall, let us fall like men.
Página 148 - That God and nature put into our hands!" I know not what ideas that Lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know, that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity.— What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife— to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering, roasting, and eating; literally, my Lords, eating the mangled victims of his barbarous battles!
Página 161 - Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. The sight of his mind was infinite; and his schemes were to affect, not England, not the present age only, but Europe and posterity.
Página 149 - Against your Protestant brethren ; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war ! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war...
Página 148 - Indian scalping-knife — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering, roasting, and eating; literally, my lords, eating the mangled victims of his barbarous battles ! Such horrible notions shock every precept of religion, divine or natural, and every generous feeling of humanity.
Página 41 - 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.
Página 146 - ... of the woods — to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment : unless thoroughly done away, it will be a stain on the national character.
Página 149 - Spain ; in vain he defended and established the honour, the liberties, the religion — the Protestant religion — of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of Popery and the Inquisition, if these more than Popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us...