Memoirs of the Kings of Great Britain of the House of Brunswic-LunenburgMarchbank, 1802 - 485 páginas |
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... monarch was , at the period of his acceffion , in the 55th year of his age , being born the day before the re- ftoration of Charles II . The uniform prudence with which this prince had conducted himself throughout the conflicts of the ...
... monarch was , at the period of his acceffion , in the 55th year of his age , being born the day before the re- ftoration of Charles II . The uniform prudence with which this prince had conducted himself throughout the conflicts of the ...
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... monarch , and afferted with Sacheverel himself , in defiance of facts , that the nation did not refift .. The generality of the tories , however , including almoft the " The fovereignty of England is in three estates - viz . king ...
... monarch , and afferted with Sacheverel himself , in defiance of facts , that the nation did not refift .. The generality of the tories , however , including almoft the " The fovereignty of England is in three estates - viz . king ...
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... monarch in poffeffion , they flattered themselves that they confulted . their intereft without abandoning their principle . After the death of the duke of Gloucester , the MARCELLUS of England , the national deteftation of popery ...
... monarch in poffeffion , they flattered themselves that they confulted . their intereft without abandoning their principle . After the death of the duke of Gloucester , the MARCELLUS of England , the national deteftation of popery ...
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... monarch , was happily compenfated by the wretched imbecility of his rival . " Should the pretender ever be restored , it was eafy , " lord Bolingbroke tells us , " to fee that the court of St. James's would be conftituted in the fame ...
... monarch , was happily compenfated by the wretched imbecility of his rival . " Should the pretender ever be restored , it was eafy , " lord Bolingbroke tells us , " to fee that the court of St. James's would be conftituted in the fame ...
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... monarch , fo eagerly and rafhly refcinded in the very com- mencement of that of the latter . There must certainly be fome latent caufe for the precipitation with which this bill has been urged ; there must be fome fecret measure in ...
... monarch , fo eagerly and rafhly refcinded in the very com- mencement of that of the latter . There must certainly be fome latent caufe for the precipitation with which this bill has been urged ; there must be fome fecret measure in ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 339 - Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; — who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.
Página 199 - I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls: and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house of her fathers.
Página 38 - Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain, " Think nothing gain'd," he cries, " till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.
Página 288 - ... which we were fcarcely to march beyond the verge of their own country, or the ever memorable treaty, of which the tendency is difcovered in the name ; the treaty by which we difunited ourfelves from Auftria, deftroyed that building which we may perhaps now endeavour, without fuccefs, to raife again, and weakened the only power which it was our intereft to ftrengthen.
Página 19 - If milder measures had been pursued, certain it is, that the tories had never universally embraced jacobitism. The violence of the whigs forced them into the arms of the pretender.
Página 276 - General Hawley, who had boasted, that with two regiments of dragoons he would drive the rebel army from one end of the kingdom to the other, incurred abundance of censure for the disposition he made, as well as for his conduct before and after the action ; but he found means to vindicate himself to the satisfaction of his sovereign.
Página 91 - Atterbury, he faid, he could hardly account for the inveterate hatred and malice fome perfons bore the learned and ingenious bifhop of Rochefter...
Página 43 - ... the Spaniards do still insist, with their ships of war and forces, to attack the kingdom of Naples, or other the territories of the emperor in Italy, or to land in any part of Italy, which can only be with a design to invade the emperor's dominions, against whom only they have declared war by invading Sardinia ; or, if they should...
Página 88 - ... an infatuation not to be accounted for. — Your own intereft and welfare call upon you to defend yourfelves. — I...
Página 89 - Jerufalem ; infomuch as that field is called, in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to fay, the field of blood. For it is written in the book of Pfalms, Let his habitation be defolate, and let no man dwell therein ; and, His bifhoprick let another take.