A History of the United Kingdom (1707-1919) for Scottish SchoolsBlackie and son limited, 1920 - 324 стор. |
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Сторінка 72 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms — never, never, never...
Сторінка 72 - 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...
Сторінка 52 - I know perfectly well you cannot cure me," he said to his physician ; " but pray make me up so that I may be without pain for a few days, and able to do my duty: that is all I want.
Сторінка 60 - Every friend of his country must lament that a Prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres, can be brought to give the sanction of his sacred name to the most odious measures, and to the most unjustifiable public declarations from a throne ever renowned for truth, honour, and unsullied virtue.
Сторінка 74 - ... why is not the latter 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. But, my Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort ; and if we must fall, let us fall like men...
Сторінка 78 - Disraeli again as Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons.
Сторінка 54 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Сторінка 73 - Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and ought to be, free and independent States, and all political connection between us and the States of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
Сторінка 62 - Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, as is also the Federal Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Сторінка 47 - I found it in the mountains of the north. 1 there found a hardy race of men, able to do their country service, but labouring under a proscription. I called them forth to its aid, and sent them to fight her battles.