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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... passed - Reflections on the sys tem of Commercial Intercourse held out by the Irish Propositions - Plan of Fortifications submitted to the House of Commons - Proposal of a Sinking- Fund - Bill passed - The Civil - List in Arrears Burke ...
... passed - Reflections on the sys tem of Commercial Intercourse held out by the Irish Propositions - Plan of Fortifications submitted to the House of Commons - Proposal of a Sinking- Fund - Bill passed - The Civil - List in Arrears Burke ...
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... passed - The King's Indisposition - Disputes on the Mode of Es- tablishing a Regency - Notification of the King's recovery - Parliament regularly opened - The Shop Tax repealed - Test and Corporation Acts - African Slave Trade ...
... passed - The King's Indisposition - Disputes on the Mode of Es- tablishing a Regency - Notification of the King's recovery - Parliament regularly opened - The Shop Tax repealed - Test and Corporation Acts - African Slave Trade ...
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... passed the Dymel ; and while were commanded by the prince of Soubise , prince Ferdinand , as if discouraged by so who had directed , but failed in the assault sudden a check , fell back to the Lippe , they of the preceding day . The ...
... passed the Dymel ; and while were commanded by the prince of Soubise , prince Ferdinand , as if discouraged by so who had directed , but failed in the assault sudden a check , fell back to the Lippe , they of the preceding day . The ...
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... passed both houses without opposition , the German war . This question had often and received the royal assent on the second before been agitated in parliament ; and it of December , when the queen , who was pres- seemed rather too late ...
... passed both houses without opposition , the German war . This question had often and received the royal assent on the second before been agitated in parliament ; and it of December , when the queen , who was pres- seemed rather too late ...
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... passed This protest , which contained a summary through both houses , for enabling the duke of the most forcible arguments that had of Bridgewater to extend his canal , from been urged against the prosecution of the Longford Bridge to ...
... passed This protest , which contained a summary through both houses , for enabling the duke of the most forcible arguments that had of Bridgewater to extend his canal , from been urged against the prosecution of the Longford Bridge to ...
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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...