History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... doubt the main argument of Lord North and with his hearers lay in the many scenes of turbulence , - the tarrings and the featherings , the riotings and burnings , - which ever since the passing of the Stamp Act had distinguished the ...
... doubt the main argument of Lord North and with his hearers lay in the many scenes of turbulence , - the tarrings and the featherings , the riotings and burnings , - which ever since the passing of the Stamp Act had distinguished the ...
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... doubt and hesitation , was offered by several men of note , as Dowdeswell , Burke , and Charles Fox , who now for the first time appeared in the ranks of Opposition . Colonel Barré , General Conway , and Lord John Cavendish on the whole ...
... doubt and hesitation , was offered by several men of note , as Dowdeswell , Burke , and Charles Fox , who now for the first time appeared in the ranks of Opposition . Colonel Barré , General Conway , and Lord John Cavendish on the whole ...
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... doubt honestly and truly , that these Bills would avert an appeal to arms , but he felt the necessity of being prepared for either alternative . With that view he recalled Governor Hutchinson from Boston , and sent in his place a ...
... doubt honestly and truly , that these Bills would avert an appeal to arms , but he felt the necessity of being prepared for either alternative . With that view he recalled Governor Hutchinson from Boston , and sent in his place a ...
Sivu 11
... doubt was even uttered whether the Americans possessed the same natural courage as the English . In the course of the ensuing year a Minister of the Crown , the Earl of Sandwich , when speaking in the House of Lords , and Colonel Grant ...
... doubt was even uttered whether the Americans possessed the same natural courage as the English . In the course of the ensuing year a Minister of the Crown , the Earl of Sandwich , when speaking in the House of Lords , and Colonel Grant ...
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... doubt a foundation of truth . But unhappily the two nations on the opposite shores of the Atlantic , like the two Knights in the old legend , would look only to the colour on their own side of the shield . The result of these Elections ...
... doubt a foundation of truth . But unhappily the two nations on the opposite shores of the Atlantic , like the two Knights in the old legend , would look only to the colour on their own side of the shield . The result of these Elections ...
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Sivu 31 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Sivu 72 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Sivu 74 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
Sivu 458 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Sivu 51 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — " Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Sivu 33 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Sivu 220 - Pounds, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops, at or near Lexington and Concord, in the Province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April.
Sivu 306 - That God and nature put into our hands !' I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature ; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. — What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife...
Sivu 307 - 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.
Sivu 51 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...