Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution, Том 2J. and J.J. Deighton, 1840 - Всего страниц: 494 |
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... followed with cries of acclamation and joy from the whole parliament . " But it was not by such honest effusions , such affecting indications of the wish of the people , if possible , to be on terms of kindness with their sovereign ...
... followed with cries of acclamation and joy from the whole parliament . " But it was not by such honest effusions , such affecting indications of the wish of the people , if possible , to be on terms of kindness with their sovereign ...
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... followed , which was not within the intention of the legislature ; the Dissenters as well as the Papists agreed not with the Church of England in their manner of taking the sacrament ; and the act has ever since operated to their ...
... followed , which was not within the intention of the legislature ; the Dissenters as well as the Papists agreed not with the Church of England in their manner of taking the sacrament ; and the act has ever since operated to their ...
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... followed that James , though a Papist himself , would have violated the constitution of his country , rather than not make his subjects the same ; that the conduct of men altered with their situation ; and that , at all events , the ...
... followed that James , though a Papist himself , would have violated the constitution of his country , rather than not make his subjects the same ; that the conduct of men altered with their situation ; and that , at all events , the ...
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... followed between his majesty and his prelates , and it might soon have been very clear to the monarch , that the trial of seven of them in Westminster Hall , and the imprisonment in the Tower , whatever might be the passive nature of ...
... followed between his majesty and his prelates , and it might soon have been very clear to the monarch , that the trial of seven of them in Westminster Hall , and the imprisonment in the Tower , whatever might be the passive nature of ...
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... followed by the collections of Churchill and Harris . But you must note that when Harris's work is quoted , it is the last edition , not the first , that is referred to . Before I conclude , I must observe that this most extensive ...
... followed by the collections of Churchill and Harris . But you must note that when Harris's work is quoted , it is the last edition , not the first , that is referred to . Before I conclude , I must observe that this most extensive ...
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Стр. 489 - Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Стр. 397 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Стр. 489 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...
Стр. 466 - And let me conjure you in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man, who wishes, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.
Стр. 395 - ... in order to prove that the Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself; and we never seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate, without attacking some of those principles, or deriding some of those feelings, for which our ancestors have shed their blood.
Стр. 415 - For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Стр. 369 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Стр. 371 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.
Стр. 187 - I shall therefore venture to acknowledge, that, not only as a man, but as a British subject, I pray for the flourishing commerce of Germany, Spain, Italy, and even France itself. I am at least certain that Great Britain, and all those nations, would flourish more, did their sovereigns and ministers adopt such enlarged and benevolent sentiments towards each other.
Стр. 396 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...