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... conduct gave general satisfaction , and afforded the presage of a prudent and happy reign . A council was summoned at Carlton House , the residence of the princess - dowager , where his majesty attended in form to transact business ...
... conduct gave general satisfaction , and afforded the presage of a prudent and happy reign . A council was summoned at Carlton House , the residence of the princess - dowager , where his majesty attended in form to transact business ...
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... conduct of his predecessor . Nor could he instantaneously abandon his German confederates , after the important steps that had been taken in conjunction with them , with- out tarnishing the lustre of the British crown , and inflicting a ...
... conduct of his predecessor . Nor could he instantaneously abandon his German confederates , after the important steps that had been taken in conjunction with them , with- out tarnishing the lustre of the British crown , and inflicting a ...
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... conduct was vigilantly scrutinized . This noble- man had been much about the person of the prince before his elevation to the throne , and the attachment of his royal master to him was no secret . A general expectation prevailed , that ...
... conduct was vigilantly scrutinized . This noble- man had been much about the person of the prince before his elevation to the throne , and the attachment of his royal master to him was no secret . A general expectation prevailed , that ...
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... that board . I was called to the administration of public affairs , " said he , " by the voice of the people , to whom I have always con- 66 sidered myself as accountable for my conduct ; and therefore 1761 . 11 GEORGE III .
... that board . I was called to the administration of public affairs , " said he , " by the voice of the people , to whom I have always con- 66 sidered myself as accountable for my conduct ; and therefore 1761 . 11 GEORGE III .
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... conduct ; and therefore cannot remain in a situation which makes me responsible for measures I am no longer allowed to guide . " Lord Granville , the president of the council , coolly replied , " The gentleman I find is determined to ...
... conduct ; and therefore cannot remain in a situation which makes me responsible for measures I am no longer allowed to guide . " Lord Granville , the president of the council , coolly replied , " The gentleman I find is determined to ...
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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...