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... British Colonists in North America . Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Perry , Speaker of the House of Commons of Ireland , dated July , 1778 , on a Bill for the Relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects in Ireland Letter to ...
... British Colonists in North America . Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Perry , Speaker of the House of Commons of Ireland , dated July , 1778 , on a Bill for the Relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects in Ireland Letter to ...
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... British government , pledged in the treaty of Poorunder , inviolate and sacred , as well as by the special orders and instructions of the East - India Company to fix his attention to the preservation of peace throughout India ; all ...
... British government , pledged in the treaty of Poorunder , inviolate and sacred , as well as by the special orders and instructions of the East - India Company to fix his attention to the preservation of peace throughout India ; all ...
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... British pow in India to carry on offensive wars , and to pursue schem of conquest , impolitie and unjust in their design . ill - co certed in the execution , and which , as this House has resolve have brought great calamities on India ...
... British pow in India to carry on offensive wars , and to pursue schem of conquest , impolitie and unjust in their design . ill - co certed in the execution , and which , as this House has resolve have brought great calamities on India ...
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... British nation in a most unjust and utterly unprovoked war against the said Nizam , between whom and the East ... British government , and with an universal hatred of the British nation ; that the said princes and states were thereby ...
... British nation in a most unjust and utterly unprovoked war against the said Nizam , between whom and the East ... British government , and with an universal hatred of the British nation ; that the said princes and states were thereby ...
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... British name and character , that the secret committee of the House of Commons , by whom the rest of the proceedings in that business were reported to the House , have upon due consideration thought it proper to leave out the letter of ...
... British name and character , that the secret committee of the House of Commons , by whom the rest of the proceedings in that business were reported to the House , have upon due consideration thought it proper to leave out the letter of ...
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Page 541 - CHAUCER'S Poetical Works. With Poems formerly attributed to him. With a Memoir, Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary, by R. Bell. Improved edition, with Preliminary Essay by Rev.
Page 121 - Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like jne. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I was...
Page 541 - Vol. I. — Essays, Lectures, and Poems. Vol. II.— English Traits, Nature, and Conduct of Life. Vol. III.— Society and Solitude — Letters and Social Aims — Miscellaneous Papers (hitherto uncollected)— May-Day, &c. FOSTER'S (John) Life and Correspondence. Edit. by JE Ryland. Portrait. 2 vols. -Lectures at Broadmead Chapel. Edit. by JE Ryland. » vols. Critical Essays contributed to the
Page 181 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Page 545 - SCHILLER'S WORKS continued. II.— History of the Revolt in the Netherlands, the Trials of Counts Egmont and Horn, the Siege of Antwerp, and the Disturbances in France preceding the Reign of Henry IV.
Page 135 - ... of the low fat Bedford level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...