The History of England, During the Reign of George III, Том 2J. Robins, 1824 |
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... royal revenue - Debate on the Speaker's address to the King - Ways and Means - Extraordinary transactions in India - Lord Chatham's renewed attempt at conciliation with America - Close of the session - Expeditions to Peek's Hill and ...
... royal revenue - Debate on the Speaker's address to the King - Ways and Means - Extraordinary transactions in India - Lord Chatham's renewed attempt at conciliation with America - Close of the session - Expeditions to Peek's Hill and ...
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... Royal by Admiral Byron - Successes against the French in the East Indies - Naval movements in the Channel - Dispute between Admirals Keppel and Palliser - Their trial by courts martial - Motions against Lord Sandwich - Finance - Inquiry ...
... Royal by Admiral Byron - Successes against the French in the East Indies - Naval movements in the Channel - Dispute between Admirals Keppel and Palliser - Their trial by courts martial - Motions against Lord Sandwich - Finance - Inquiry ...
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... Royal burghs of Scotland - Libel bill carried - Society of Friends of the People - Proclamation against sedition - Conviction of Thomas Paine- Revenues of India - Indian war - Parliament prorogued - Affairs of France -Poland - Sweden ...
... Royal burghs of Scotland - Libel bill carried - Society of Friends of the People - Proclamation against sedition - Conviction of Thomas Paine- Revenues of India - Indian war - Parliament prorogued - Affairs of France -Poland - Sweden ...
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... royal standard erected in the heart of the country . General Clinton's orders were to try if any of the southern provinces would take up arms in favour of Great Britain ; in which case he was to have left a body of troops to assist the ...
... royal standard erected in the heart of the country . General Clinton's orders were to try if any of the southern provinces would take up arms in favour of Great Britain ; in which case he was to have left a body of troops to assist the ...
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... royal army , being divided only by the East river , about 1300 yards in breadth , from the island of New York , where the provincial forces had taken refuge , were impatient to pass that narrow boundary . After a long and severe ...
... royal army , being divided only by the East river , about 1300 yards in breadth , from the island of New York , where the provincial forces had taken refuge , were impatient to pass that narrow boundary . After a long and severe ...
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Сторінка 97 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Сторінка 94 - 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.
Сторінка 438 - must show herself disposed to renounce her views of aggression " and aggrandizement, and to confine herself within her own territory, " without insulting other Governments, without disturbing their " tranquillity, without violating their rights.
Сторінка 93 - I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Сторінка 96 - 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.
Сторінка 96 - 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...
Сторінка 167 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Сторінка 94 - German despot ; your attempts will be for ever vain and impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. 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...
Сторінка 94 - ... 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.
Сторінка 358 - What we did was in truth and substance, and in a constitutional light, a revolution, not made, but prevented. We took solid securities ; we settled doubtful questions ; we corrected anomalies in our law. In the stable, fundamental parts of our constitution, we made no revolution ; no, nor any alteration at all.