Popular History of England, Nide 6Bradbury, Evans, 1860 |
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... Admiral Vernon 89 Pall Mall , about 1740 91 Act 73 Wyndham's Character of Walpole 73 The Admiralty , as it appeared before Adams ' Screen was built 97 Walpole's Character of Bolingbroke 74 Bolingbroke quits England 76 ILLUSTRATIONS ...
... Admiral Vernon 89 Pall Mall , about 1740 91 Act 73 Wyndham's Character of Walpole 73 The Admiralty , as it appeared before Adams ' Screen was built 97 Walpole's Character of Bolingbroke 74 Bolingbroke quits England 76 ILLUSTRATIONS ...
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... Admiral Byng 213 The Battle of Minden 235 Surrender of St. Philip , in Minorca 214 Canada 236 Popular Rage against Byng 214 Operations in North America 236 Commencement of the Seven Years ' War . 215 Wolfe in the St. Lawrence 237 ...
... Admiral Byng 213 The Battle of Minden 235 Surrender of St. Philip , in Minorca 214 Canada 236 Popular Rage against Byng 214 Operations in North America 236 Commencement of the Seven Years ' War . 215 Wolfe in the St. Lawrence 237 ...
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... Admiral Keppel , after Sir Joshua Reynolds . 393 394 375 Paul Jones . ( From a French Print . ) 395 398 376 La Fayette Kosciusko Battle of the Brandywine The British in Philadelphia Burgoyne's Army enters the United States from Canada ...
... Admiral Keppel , after Sir Joshua Reynolds . 393 394 375 Paul Jones . ( From a French Print . ) 395 398 376 La Fayette Kosciusko Battle of the Brandywine The British in Philadelphia Burgoyne's Army enters the United States from Canada ...
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... admiral to intercept them . The battle , it is held , was commenced by the Spaniards . Byng was superior in force ; and the Spanish admirals acted without a settled plan . But they fought bravely , till the main fleet was all taken or ...
... admiral to intercept them . The battle , it is held , was commenced by the Spaniards . Byng was superior in force ; and the Spanish admirals acted without a settled plan . But they fought bravely , till the main fleet was all taken or ...
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... admiral could have manifested more energy and promptitude than admiral Byng displayed , in exploits that required the utmost courage and decision of character . He rendered the most efficient aid to the forces of the emperor in the ...
... admiral could have manifested more energy and promptitude than admiral Byng displayed , in exploits that required the utmost courage and decision of character . He rendered the most efficient aid to the forces of the emperor in the ...
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Sivu 337 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Sivu 378 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Sivu 363 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Sivu 458 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Sivu 440 - Upon the whole, there was in this man something that could create, subvert, or reform ; an understanding, a spirit, and an eloquence, to summon mankind to society, or to break the bonds of slavery asunder, and to rule the wilderness of free minds with unbounded authority ; something that could establish or overwhelm empire, and strike a blow in the world that should resound through the universe.
Sivu 274 - I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Sivu 341 - 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...
Sivu 443 - I am now to address a free people : ages have passed away, and this is the first moment in which you could be distinguished by that appellation.
Sivu 295 - Power without right is the most odious and detestable object that can be offered to the human imagination. It is not only pernicious to those who are subject to it, but tends to its own destruction. It is what my noble friend (Lord Lyttleton) has truly described it,
Sivu 379 - I am now convinced beyond a doubt, that, unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place in that line, this army must inevitably be reduced to one or other of these three things ; starve, dissolve, or disperse in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can.