The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King George the Third, Volumen4author, and published, 1841 |
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... necessary to review her situation in comparison with other powers , and particularly those with whom she had been engaged in hostilities . VOL . IV . B CHAP . LIV . 1783 . General view of the late bel- ligerent pow- ers . CHAP . LIV ...
... necessary to review her situation in comparison with other powers , and particularly those with whom she had been engaged in hostilities . VOL . IV . B CHAP . LIV . 1783 . General view of the late bel- ligerent pow- ers . CHAP . LIV ...
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... necessary before a commercial arrange- ment could be formed ; and therefore a proclamation was issued , interdicting direct trade between America and the West Indies , which seems to have given great offence to Dr. Franklin , or at ...
... necessary before a commercial arrange- ment could be formed ; and therefore a proclamation was issued , interdicting direct trade between America and the West Indies , which seems to have given great offence to Dr. Franklin , or at ...
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... necessary , and the state of the public mind did not warrant a hope that such an assent would ever be ob- tained . Separate applications to the different states , for which individuals had served , were suggested ; but it was objected ...
... necessary , and the state of the public mind did not warrant a hope that such an assent would ever be ob- tained . Separate applications to the different states , for which individuals had served , were suggested ; but it was objected ...
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... necessary to Great Britain , after so expensive a war , in which she had been so unjustly attacked , and her interests so basely deserted by those powers who owed her the greatest obligations . The national debt was increased during the ...
... necessary to Great Britain , after so expensive a war , in which she had been so unjustly attacked , and her interests so basely deserted by those powers who owed her the greatest obligations . The national debt was increased during the ...
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... necessary to say that these are the Reports so frequently quoted in preceding pages . The Reports of the Select Committee , besides those made on the 8th May , were eleven in number , the last being made on the 18th of November , 1783 ...
... necessary to say that these are the Reports so frequently quoted in preceding pages . The Reports of the Select Committee , besides those made on the 8th May , were eleven in number , the last being made on the 18th of November , 1783 ...
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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...