Memoirs of the Kings of Great Britain of the House of Brunswic-LunenburgMarchbank, 1802 - 485 páginas |
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... present fair and flattering ap pearances , he had tranfmitted orders to the Regency , * cone fitting For the mere purpose of embarraffing the whigs , a motion had been made in parliament by the tories , A. D. 1705 , for an address to ...
... present fair and flattering ap pearances , he had tranfmitted orders to the Regency , * cone fitting For the mere purpose of embarraffing the whigs , a motion had been made in parliament by the tories , A. D. 1705 , for an address to ...
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... present parliament at a junc- ture fo critical . The bill , which originated in the house of peers , was oppofed with great ability by divers noble- men , and in particular by the earl of Nottingham , who , disgufted and provoked by the ...
... present parliament at a junc- ture fo critical . The bill , which originated in the house of peers , was oppofed with great ability by divers noble- men , and in particular by the earl of Nottingham , who , disgufted and provoked by the ...
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... present establish- ment ; and that the government acknowledged its weakness to be fuch , as to make fo extraordinary a provifion ne- ceffary for its fafety ; when it appeared that the nation was not to be trufted , and that the ...
... present establish- ment ; and that the government acknowledged its weakness to be fuch , as to make fo extraordinary a provifion ne- ceffary for its fafety ; when it appeared that the nation was not to be trufted , and that the ...
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... present frame of our conftitution ! What emotions of indignation must not the infolence of this demand excite - especially if it happen to be urged by a state which owes its very being to England , and which continues to fubfift as a ...
... present frame of our conftitution ! What emotions of indignation must not the infolence of this demand excite - especially if it happen to be urged by a state which owes its very being to England , and which continues to fubfift as a ...
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... present parliament may more juftly be compared to a torrent , which , in its furious and foaming course , defolates the land , bearing down all the landmarks and ancient mounds which have been raised to confine it within its regular and ...
... present parliament may more juftly be compared to a torrent , which , in its furious and foaming course , defolates the land , bearing down all the landmarks and ancient mounds which have been raised to confine it within its regular and ...
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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.