History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Volumen5B. Tauchnitz, 1853 |
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... opposition 9 ib . Allegations of bribery 10 Cabals around the Sovereign 12 · Lady Sarah Lennox ib . Sir Francis Dashwood , Chancellor of the Exchequer 13 Phrase of " My Chancellor " 14 Cyder Tax proposed 15 The " Gentle Shepherd " 16 ...
... opposition 9 ib . Allegations of bribery 10 Cabals around the Sovereign 12 · Lady Sarah Lennox ib . Sir Francis Dashwood , Chancellor of the Exchequer 13 Phrase of " My Chancellor " 14 Cyder Tax proposed 15 The " Gentle Shepherd " 16 ...
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... opposition Speeches of Chatham · Altercation with the Duke of Grafton " The present state of the Nation " " Observations " by Burke . 254 255 . ib . 256 257 258 259 261 ib . ib . • ib . ib . 263 ib . • ib . ib . 265 : 266 268 269 270 ib ...
... opposition Speeches of Chatham · Altercation with the Duke of Grafton " The present state of the Nation " " Observations " by Burke . 254 255 . ib . 256 257 258 259 261 ib . ib . • ib . ib . 263 ib . • ib . ib . 265 : 266 268 269 270 ib ...
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... . i . p . 337 . *** Note of Mr. Jared Sparks to Washington's Writings , vol . v . p . 22 , and Hening's Statutes at Large , vol . viii . p . 371 . 1763 . PITT IN OPPOSITION . 9 were yet all 8 CHAP . XLI . HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... . i . p . 337 . *** Note of Mr. Jared Sparks to Washington's Writings , vol . v . p . 22 , and Hening's Statutes at Large , vol . viii . p . 371 . 1763 . PITT IN OPPOSITION . 9 were yet all 8 CHAP . XLI . HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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... OPPOSITION . 9 were yet all but overlooked by their contemporaries amidst the stir and strife of their party politics . To these I must now return . Lord Bute had succeeded in concluding the war . He had succeeded in obtaining for his ...
... OPPOSITION . 9 were yet all but overlooked by their contemporaries amidst the stir and strife of their party politics . To these I must now return . Lord Bute had succeeded in concluding the war . He had succeeded in obtaining for his ...
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... Opposition bench . His countenance appeared emaciated and ghastly ; his dress was of black velvet , but both hands and feet were swathed in flannel . His speech , which , as I have elsewhere said , extended to three hours and a half ...
... Opposition bench . His countenance appeared emaciated and ghastly ; his dress was of black velvet , but both hands and feet were swathed in flannel . His speech , which , as I have elsewhere said , extended to three hours and a half ...
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Página 140 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Página 187 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; King's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious shew ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure...
Página 44 - Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Página 341 - I ask, my lords, whether the revengeful temper, attributed by poetic fiction only to the bloody African, is not surpassed by the coolness and apathy of the wily American ?
Página 140 - 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 141 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Página 137 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it...
Página 138 - If taxation be a part of simple legislation, the crown, the peers have rights in taxation as well as yourselves ; rights which they will claim, which they will exercise, whenever the principle can be supported by power. There is an idea in some, that the colonies are virtually represented in the house.
Página 137 - I called it forth, and drew into your service a hardy and intrepid race of men — men, who, when left by your jealousy, became a prey to the artifices of your enemies, and had gone nigh to have overturned the state in the war before the last. These men, in the last war, were brought to combat on your side. They served with fidelity, as they fought with valour, and conquered for you in every part of the world.
Página 104 - When," — such were the King's own words to Lord Bute, — "he has wearied me for two hours, he looks at his watch "to see if he may not tire one for an hour more.