The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King George the Third, Volumen4author, and published, 1841 |
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... . iii . p . 386 . The expression of Sir Guy Carleton , in a dispatch to the Right Honourable Thomas Townshend , 15th March , 1783. - State Papers . CHAP . LIV . 1783 . CHAP . LIV . 1783 . He refuses to accept GEORGE III . 13.
... . iii . p . 386 . The expression of Sir Guy Carleton , in a dispatch to the Right Honourable Thomas Townshend , 15th March , 1783. - State Papers . CHAP . LIV . 1783 . CHAP . LIV . 1783 . He refuses to accept GEORGE III . 13.
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... honourable Baronet was Mr. Pitt . not imitated by Mr. Pitt , who , in giving his hearty assent to the motion , said there was not one exception- able expression either in the speech or the address . He must approve the treaties ; but it ...
... honourable Baronet was Mr. Pitt . not imitated by Mr. Pitt , who , in giving his hearty assent to the motion , said there was not one exception- able expression either in the speech or the address . He must approve the treaties ; but it ...
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... Honourable Secretary introduced his motion by a long and eloquent speech . The measure , he said , was not of choice , but of necessity ; it was no idle speculation on his part , the business forced itself upon him and upon the nation ...
... Honourable Secretary introduced his motion by a long and eloquent speech . The measure , he said , was not of choice , but of necessity ; it was no idle speculation on his part , the business forced itself upon him and upon the nation ...
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... honourable gentleman into a situation wholly unknown to our constitution ? a situation from which he could not be driven or moved till he chose voluntarily to abdicate the dictatorship . He had in- deed talked of a term of years at the ...
... honourable gentleman into a situation wholly unknown to our constitution ? a situation from which he could not be driven or moved till he chose voluntarily to abdicate the dictatorship . He had in- deed talked of a term of years at the ...
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... honourable gentleman had made gross and pal- pable omissions , in his statement of their affairs , to an enormous amount . On the following day , Mr. Fox brought in his second bill , which corresponded exactly with the out- line he had ...
... honourable gentleman had made gross and pal- pable omissions , in his statement of their affairs , to an enormous amount . On the following day , Mr. Fox brought in his second bill , which corresponded exactly with the out- line he had ...
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Página 491 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.
Página 548 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 549 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 549 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom...
Página 225 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Página 544 - I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever, and nations panting for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it ; I have lived to see thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible voice ; their king led in triumph, and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects.
Página 548 - Plots, massacres, assassinations, seem to some people a trivial price for obtaining a revolution. A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty, appear flat and vapid to their taste. There must be a great change of scene ; there must be a magnificent stage effect; there must be a grand spectacle to rouse the imagination, grown torpid with the lazy enjoyment of sixty years security, and the still unanimating repose of public prosperity.
Página 549 - ... it is this which has distinguished it under all its forms of government and distinguished it to its advantage from the states of asia and possibly from those states which flourished in the most brilliant periods of the antique world, it was this which without confounding ranks had produced a noble equality and handed it down through all the gradations of social life, it was this opinion which mitigated kings into companions and raised private men to be fellows with kings.
Página 225 - He has visited all Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Página 544 - ... for the dominion of laws, and the dominion of priests giving way to the dominion of reason and conscience. Be encouraged, all ye friends of freedom, and writers in its defence! The times are auspicious. Your labours have not been in vain. Behold kingdoms, admonished by you, starting from sleep, breaking their fetters, and claiming justice from their oppressors! Behold, the light you have struck out, after setting AMERICA free, reflected to FRANCE, and there kindled into a blaze that lays despotism...