History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Volumen5B. Tauchnitz, 1853 |
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... Temple 19 His duel with Lord Talbot . 21 Charges against Lord Bute ib . Favour shown to the University of Oxford 23 Stretches of prerogative ib . Fox's violent projects . 24 Lord Bute burned in effigy 25 His sudden resignation 26 Causes ...
... Temple 19 His duel with Lord Talbot . 21 Charges against Lord Bute ib . Favour shown to the University of Oxford 23 Stretches of prerogative ib . Fox's violent projects . 24 Lord Bute burned in effigy 25 His sudden resignation 26 Causes ...
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... Temple and the Duke of Grafton Discharged by Chief Justice Pratt He retires to Paris Popular rejoicings at his release Page 29 30 ib . 31 32 33 ib . 34 ib . CHAPTER XLII . ! Character of the new administration • Death of Lord Egremont ...
... Temple and the Duke of Grafton Discharged by Chief Justice Pratt He retires to Paris Popular rejoicings at his release Page 29 30 ib . 31 32 33 ib . 34 ib . CHAPTER XLII . ! Character of the new administration • Death of Lord Egremont ...
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... Temple Pitt declines to form a government New demands of Grenville and Bedford The King yields . Renewal of the Ministerial crisis Second overture to Pitt He again declines The Marquis of Rockingham put forward as leader His character ...
... Temple Pitt declines to form a government New demands of Grenville and Bedford The King yields . Renewal of the Ministerial crisis Second overture to Pitt He again declines The Marquis of Rockingham put forward as leader His character ...
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... Temple IX Page 149 150 ib . • • 151 152 • 153 154 156 161 162 ib . 163 164 ib . 165 166 ib . 167 168 ib . 169 170 Progress of the new appointments Pitt resolves to leave the House of Commons He is created Earl of Chatham Popular murmurs ...
... Temple IX Page 149 150 ib . • • 151 152 • 153 154 156 161 162 ib . 163 164 ib . 165 166 ib . 167 168 ib . 169 170 Progress of the new appointments Pitt resolves to leave the House of Commons He is created Earl of Chatham Popular murmurs ...
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... Temple ; and thirty - nine Peers recorded their votes against it ; the first time it is said when that branch of the Legislature ever divided on a money - Bill . At the beginning of April the tax on cyder had become the law of the land ...
... Temple ; and thirty - nine Peers recorded their votes against it ; the first time it is said when that branch of the Legislature ever divided on a money - Bill . At the beginning of April the tax on cyder had become the law of the land ...
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administration affairs afterwards American appeared Assembly Barré Beckford Bill Boston Burke called Cavendish Debates Chancellor Charles Townshend Chatham Papers chief colleagues Colonies Conway Council Court Crown declared doubt Duke of Bedford Duke of Grafton duty Earl eloquence England ensued favour favourite feeling Francis Franklin gentleman George Grenville George the Third Government Governor Grenville Grenville's hand honour Horace Walpole House of Commons House of Lords Junius King late letter Lord Bute Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Granby Lord Mansfield Lord North Lord Orford's Memoirs Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne Lord Temple Mahon Majesty measure Members Memoirs of George ment Ministry never observed occasion Parliament party period persons Pitt political popular present Prime Minister Privy proposed question repeal resignation Resolution Royal says Secretary Session speech spirit Stamp Act tion vote Whig wholly Wilkes Wilkes's writes
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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.