The History of Great Britain from the Death of George II. to the Coronation of George IV.: Designed as a Continuation of Hume and SmollettThomas Davis, 1844 - 724 pages |
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... army , which , without some signal gradually retired , abandoning post after post , success , would find itself absolutely incapa- till they were nearly driven to the banks of ble of making any stand against them . the Maine . In their ...
... army , which , without some signal gradually retired , abandoning post after post , success , would find itself absolutely incapa- till they were nearly driven to the banks of ble of making any stand against them . the Maine . In their ...
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... army in Hesse a large body to the VICISSITUDES OF THE CAMPAIGN . lower Rhine . He now found it equally In the mean time , general Sporken and proper to recall this body , together with the troops under his command , who had further ...
... army in Hesse a large body to the VICISSITUDES OF THE CAMPAIGN . lower Rhine . He now found it equally In the mean time , general Sporken and proper to recall this body , together with the troops under his command , who had further ...
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... army . The French took , upon this sustained attack than the former . Marshal occasion , eight hundred prisoners , nineteen Broglio led on their right wing against the pieces of cannon , four hundred horses , and left of the allied army ...
... army . The French took , upon this sustained attack than the former . Marshal occasion , eight hundred prisoners , nineteen Broglio led on their right wing against the pieces of cannon , four hundred horses , and left of the allied army ...
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... army on the Weser was given two months , in spite of the utmost efforts of to his rival , the prince of Soubise , assisted Laudohn and Daun to obstruct his opera- by marshal d'Etrées ; while the army on tions . The moment he found ...
... army on the Weser was given two months , in spite of the utmost efforts of to his rival , the prince of Soubise , assisted Laudohn and Daun to obstruct his opera- by marshal d'Etrées ; while the army on tions . The moment he found ...
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... army captured general's command , but also the as might , in spite of any obstruction , have great object of the Spanish army which had forced its way to Lisbon ; had it acted sepa- hitherto acted in Beira . The former of rately , it ...
... army captured general's command , but also the as might , in spite of any obstruction , have great object of the Spanish army which had forced its way to Lisbon ; had it acted sepa- hitherto acted in Beira . The former of rately , it ...
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Page 99 - At the same time, this kingdom, as the supreme governing and legislative power, has always bound the colonies by her laws, by her regulations, and restrictions in trade, in navigation, in manufactures, in every thing, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 154 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it ; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.
Page 104 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Page 252 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 220 - ... been conducted. They will, therefore, be ready to enter upon the consideration of a treaty of peace and commerce not inconsistent with treaties already subsisting, when the king of Great Britain shall demonstrate a sincere disposition for that purpose. The only solid proof of this disposition, will be, an explicit acknowledgment of the independence of these states, or the withdrawing his fleets and armies.
Page 220 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 378 - Already these free men show their discontent, and the repugnance which they have to bear arms against their brothers, the French. Well! we will fly to their succour; we will make a descent on the island; we will lodge there fifty thousand caps of liberty; we will plant there the sacred tree, and we will stretch out our arms to our republican brethren ; the tyranny of their government will soon be destroyed. Let every one of us be strongly impressed with this idea! — Monge.
Page 175 - America, and shall choose to become members of any of these states ; and they shall be protected in the free exercise of their respective religions, and be invested with the rights, privileges and immunities of natives, as established by the laws of these states ; and, moreover, that this Congress will provide, for every such person, fifty acres of unappropriated lands in some of these states, to be held by him and his heirs in absolute property.
Page 169 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 365 - I should ; because we are so made, as to be affected at such spectacles with melancholy sentiments upon the unstable condition of mortal prosperity, and the tremendous uncertainty of human greatness ; because in those natural feelings we learn great lessons ; because in events like these our passions instruct our reason...