The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King George the Third, Volumen4author, and published, 1841 |
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... manners of the people , 285. - Unfavourable im- pression made by the Emperor , 286. - Calumnies against the Queen , 287 - Her conduct , ib . - Affair of the necklace , 288. - Disputes between the King and parliament of Paris , 289 ...
... manners of the people , 285. - Unfavourable im- pression made by the Emperor , 286. - Calumnies against the Queen , 287 - Her conduct , ib . - Affair of the necklace , 288. - Disputes between the King and parliament of Paris , 289 ...
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... manners , and jurisprudential forms , would always certify that the establishment of the Americans as a people , and the foundation of their most valuable social institutes , were derived from Great Britain . To these , at every period ...
... manners , and jurisprudential forms , would always certify that the establishment of the Americans as a people , and the foundation of their most valuable social institutes , were derived from Great Britain . To these , at every period ...
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... manner over - ruled . There were not wanting some discerning patriots who saw the benefits of a connexion with England . Messrs . Vander Perre and Boerse , the Dutch commissioners at Paris , acknowledged great obligations to this ...
... manner over - ruled . There were not wanting some discerning patriots who saw the benefits of a connexion with England . Messrs . Vander Perre and Boerse , the Dutch commissioners at Paris , acknowledged great obligations to this ...
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... manner in which their opposition to it had been conducted . CHAP . LV . 1783 . In other respects their proceedings had not been Rodney . satisfactory to the country . Their attacks on Rodney , from the moment his success appeared to ...
... manner in which their opposition to it had been conducted . CHAP . LV . 1783 . In other respects their proceedings had not been Rodney . satisfactory to the country . Their attacks on Rodney , from the moment his success appeared to ...
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... manner . Against this bill petitions were presented from the general Court of Proprietors , complaining of the at- tempt to seize and dispose of their property without any charge of delinquency ; and from the Court of Directors ...
... manner . Against this bill petitions were presented from the general Court of Proprietors , complaining of the at- tempt to seize and dispose of their property without any charge of delinquency ; and from the Court of Directors ...
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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...