The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King George the Third, Volumen4author, and published, 1841 |
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... received a peerage , with the title of Lord Dorchester . Congress literally fulfilled the terms of the provi- sional articles , by voting a recommendation of the loyalists in the very words of the treaty ; but the man- ner of this cold ...
... received a peerage , with the title of Lord Dorchester . Congress literally fulfilled the terms of the provi- sional articles , by voting a recommendation of the loyalists in the very words of the treaty ; but the man- ner of this cold ...
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... received 50 , some 70 , and one £ 100,000 . An un- paralleled instance of magnanimity and justice in a nation which had expended nearly a hundred and sixteen millions in the war . CHAP . LIV . 1783 . Of the army . GEORGE III . 7.
... received 50 , some 70 , and one £ 100,000 . An un- paralleled instance of magnanimity and justice in a nation which had expended nearly a hundred and sixteen millions in the war . CHAP . LIV . 1783 . Of the army . GEORGE III . 7.
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... received , from a grateful and admiring peo- ple , the well - merited homage of numerous affectionate addresses . Contemplating the character and conduct of Gene- on his charac- ral Washington during this period of his public life ...
... received , from a grateful and admiring peo- ple , the well - merited homage of numerous affectionate addresses . Contemplating the character and conduct of Gene- on his charac- ral Washington during this period of his public life ...
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... received in America : General Washington readily consented to be their president ; La Fayette , Lauzun , and other officers in Paris , gladly enrolled their names ; the French King expressed his approbation , and an early day was fixed ...
... received in America : General Washington readily consented to be their president ; La Fayette , Lauzun , and other officers in Paris , gladly enrolled their names ; the French King expressed his approbation , and an early day was fixed ...
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... received a severe shock , even in the progress of the contest , when Mr. Laurens expended the money lent by France in the purchase of British manufactures , justifying his conduct , by pleading his duty to buy the best and cheapest ...
... received a severe shock , even in the progress of the contest , when Mr. Laurens expended the money lent by France in the purchase of British manufactures , justifying his conduct , by pleading his duty to buy the best and cheapest ...
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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...