The history of England, from the accession of George iii to 1783, Volume 31810 |
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... fituation there ? We do not know the worft ; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing , and fuffered much . Conqueft is im- poffible : you may fwell every expenfe , and every effort ftill more extravagantly ; pile and ...
... fituation there ? We do not know the worft ; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing , and fuffered much . Conqueft is im- poffible : you may fwell every expenfe , and every effort ftill more extravagantly ; pile and ...
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... fituation , or , from perfe- verance in the measures that have driven us to it ? Who has the forehead to do fo ? Where is the man ? I fhould be glad to fee his face . " You cannot conciliate America by your prefent mea- fures ; you ...
... fituation , or , from perfe- verance in the measures that have driven us to it ? Who has the forehead to do fo ? Where is the man ? I fhould be glad to fee his face . " You cannot conciliate America by your prefent mea- fures ; you ...
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... conduct reminded him of the fituation of Sancho Panza in the government of Barataria ; a table plentifully provided , was placed before him , but on various СНАР . XXXII . . various pretences every dish was GEORGE III . 13.
... conduct reminded him of the fituation of Sancho Panza in the government of Barataria ; a table plentifully provided , was placed before him , but on various СНАР . XXXII . . various pretences every dish was GEORGE III . 13.
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... fituation , and members fhould be ashammed to face their conftituents , after voting a neglect of their interests at this momentous period . Mr. Burke pro- pofed , as an amendment , to adjourn only for a week . The reply of minifters ...
... fituation , and members fhould be ashammed to face their conftituents , after voting a neglect of their interests at this momentous period . Mr. Burke pro- pofed , as an amendment , to adjourn only for a week . The reply of minifters ...
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... fituation of the country , and not leave Eng- land defenceless to strengthen the army in America . He therefore moved for orders that no more of the old corps fhould be fent out of the kingdom . STRANGERS being excluded from the house ...
... fituation of the country , and not leave Eng- land defenceless to strengthen the army in America . He therefore moved for orders that no more of the old corps fhould be fent out of the kingdom . STRANGERS being excluded from the house ...
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Popular passages
Page 5 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Page 11 - Against your Protestant brethren ; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hellhounds, I say, of savage war.
Page 462 - I make it my humble and earnest prayer to Almighty God that Great Britain may not feel the evils which might result from so great a dismemberment of the empire; and that America may be free from those calamities which have formerly proved in the mother country how essential monarchy is to the enjoyment of constitutional liberty.
Page 11 - ... ermine, to save us from this pollution. I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution.
Page 10 - My lords, we are called upon as members of this house, as men, as Christian men, to protest against such notions standing near the throne, polluting the ear of majesty. ' That God and nature put into our hands.
Page 204 - Master of the Household; the whole Board of Green Cloth; — and a vast number of subordinate offices in the department of the Steward of the Household; — the whole establishment of the Great Wardrobe; — the Removing Wardrobe;— the Jewel Office; — The Robes; the Board of Works; almost the whole charge of the civil branch of the Board of Ordnance are taken away.
Page 199 - When I look, as I have pretty carefully looked, into the proceedings of the French King, I am sorry to say it, I see nothing of the character and genius of arbitrary finance, none of the bold frauds of bankrupt power, none of the wild struggles and plunges of despotism in distress, — no lopping off from the capital of debt, no suspension of interest, no robbery under the name of loan, no raising the value, no debasing the substance, of the coin. I see neither Louis the Fourteenth nor Louis the...
Page 10 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation. I call upon that right reverend bench, those holy ministers of the Gospel, and pious pastors of our church; I conjure them to join in the holy work, and vindicate the religion of their God.
Page 407 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 242 - That, for his part, he would run all hazards with the people ; and if the people were too luke-warm to run all hazards with him, when their conscience and their country called them forth, they might get another President...