The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George the Third, Volume 17T. Tegg, 1828 |
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... voted for the supplies of the year , a tax of three shillings each barrel had been levied on beer . This was imputed to lord Bute ; and the mob vented their indignation by a riot at one of the country theatres . But notwith- standing ...
... voted for the supplies of the year , a tax of three shillings each barrel had been levied on beer . This was imputed to lord Bute ; and the mob vented their indignation by a riot at one of the country theatres . But notwith- standing ...
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... voted to be a seditious libel , and ordered to be burned by the common hangman . When the sheriffs of London proceeded to execute this sentence at the Royal Exchange , a mob assem- bled , and grossly insulted the magistrates : a riot ...
... voted to be a seditious libel , and ordered to be burned by the common hangman . When the sheriffs of London proceeded to execute this sentence at the Royal Exchange , a mob assem- bled , and grossly insulted the magistrates : a riot ...
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... voted a seditious libel , contained ex- pressions of the most unexampled insolence and contumely towards his majesty , the grossest asper- sions against both houses of parliament , and the most audacious defiance of the authority of the ...
... voted a seditious libel , contained ex- pressions of the most unexampled insolence and contumely towards his majesty , the grossest asper- sions against both houses of parliament , and the most audacious defiance of the authority of the ...
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... voted him guilty of a breach of privilege , and resolved on an address to his majesty , recommending a prosecution against him in the king's bench , which was instituted on the twofold charge of libel and blasphemy . Wilkes was found ...
... voted him guilty of a breach of privilege , and resolved on an address to his majesty , recommending a prosecution against him in the king's bench , which was instituted on the twofold charge of libel and blasphemy . Wilkes was found ...
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... voted , expressing the entire satisfaction of the house with the measures that had been taken to sup- port the constitution , and of a determination to con- cur in such farther steps as might be found necessary to enforce a due ...
... voted , expressing the entire satisfaction of the house with the measures that had been taken to sup- port the constitution , and of a determination to con- cur in such farther steps as might be found necessary to enforce a due ...
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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...