History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Volumen5B. Tauchnitz, 1853 |
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... speech 90 Dr. Franklin's letters ib . Preparations for a General Congress . Character of Patrick Henry Popular ferment in America In Virginia the House of Burgesses dissolved And of Dr. Franklin 91 ib . 92 ib . 95 CHAPTER XLIV ...
... speech 90 Dr. Franklin's letters ib . Preparations for a General Congress . Character of Patrick Henry Popular ferment in America In Virginia the House of Burgesses dissolved And of Dr. Franklin 91 ib . 92 ib . 95 CHAPTER XLIV ...
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... Speech of Pitt 136 Of Secretary Conway 138 And of Grenville . 139 Pitt's reply . 140 Eloquence of Pitt Petitions from the great commercial towns Dr. Franklin examined at the Bar The declaratory Bill • Debate in the House of Lords Repeal ...
... Speech of Pitt 136 Of Secretary Conway 138 And of Grenville . 139 Pitt's reply . 140 Eloquence of Pitt Petitions from the great commercial towns Dr. Franklin examined at the Bar The declaratory Bill • Debate in the House of Lords Repeal ...
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... speech of Chatham in the Lords ib . 176 177 ib . His party - difficulties 179 The East India Company · • 180 Its ill conduct at this time . ib . Vast schemes of Chatham for the government of India 181 Motion of Alderman Beckford 182 ...
... speech of Chatham in the Lords ib . 176 177 ib . His party - difficulties 179 The East India Company · • 180 Its ill conduct at this time . ib . Vast schemes of Chatham for the government of India 181 Motion of Alderman Beckford 182 ...
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... speech of Chatham Supported by Lord Chancellor Camden Chatham replies . • Lord Camden dismissed from office Charles ... Speeches of Chatham · Altercation with the Duke of Grafton " The present state of the Nation " " Observations " by ...
... speech of Chatham Supported by Lord Chancellor Camden Chatham replies . • Lord Camden dismissed from office Charles ... Speeches of Chatham · Altercation with the Duke of Grafton " The present state of the Nation " " Observations " by ...
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... speech of Chatham ib . 317 CHAPTER L. The King's brothers . 318 Marriage of the Duke of Cumberland 319 And of the Duke of Gloucester . ib . Caroline Matilda , Queen of Denmark ib . Cabals at Copenhagen 320 Struensee and Brandt at the ...
... speech of Chatham ib . 317 CHAPTER L. The King's brothers . 318 Marriage of the Duke of Cumberland 319 And of the Duke of Gloucester . ib . Caroline Matilda , Queen of Denmark ib . Cabals at Copenhagen 320 Struensee and Brandt at the ...
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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.