Popular History of England, Volumen 6Bradbury, Evans, 1860 |
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... Walpole 73 Screen was built 97 Walpole's Character of Bolingbroke 74 Bolingbroke quits England 76 ILLUSTRATIONS . CHAPTER VII.-A.D. 1741 to A.D. 1745 . Crown . ( There is no perfect example of the Great Seal . ) 57 Maria Theresa . 105 ...
... Walpole 73 Screen was built 97 Walpole's Character of Bolingbroke 74 Bolingbroke quits England 76 ILLUSTRATIONS . CHAPTER VII.-A.D. 1741 to A.D. 1745 . Crown . ( There is no perfect example of the Great Seal . ) 57 Maria Theresa . 105 ...
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... Walpole , the English minister at the Hague : " The Pretender is now at Perth , and to be crowned king of Scotland . This step his friends here would not have suffered him to take in the present situation of affairs , unless the regent ...
... Walpole , the English minister at the Hague : " The Pretender is now at Perth , and to be crowned king of Scotland . This step his friends here would not have suffered him to take in the present situation of affairs , unless the regent ...
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... Walpole , to prevent these appeals , moved the adjournment of the House to the 1st of March , during which interval the executions were to take place . Walpole only carried his motion by a majority of seven . In the House of Peers ...
... Walpole , to prevent these appeals , moved the adjournment of the House to the 1st of March , during which interval the executions were to take place . Walpole only carried his motion by a majority of seven . In the House of Peers ...
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... Walpole to Chatham , was , in his turn , obliged to yield , however unwillingly , to the " uniformity and firmness of mind " which governed the continental policy of these princes . Their repeated absences from England were no light ...
... Walpole to Chatham , was , in his turn , obliged to yield , however unwillingly , to the " uniformity and firmness of mind " which governed the continental policy of these princes . Their repeated absences from England were no light ...
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... Walpole was the minister who gave to our government that character of lenity which it has since generally preserved . " * Before Walpole became the supreme director of affairs , there was much complication of foreign policy , which we ...
... Walpole was the minister who gave to our government that character of lenity which it has since generally preserved . " * Before Walpole became the supreme director of affairs , there was much complication of foreign policy , which we ...
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Página 341 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Página 382 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Página 367 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Página 462 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Página 444 - Upon the whole, there was in this man something that could create, subvert, or reform ; an understanding, a spirit, and an eloquence, to summon mankind to society, or to break the bonds of slavery asunder, and to rule the wilderness of free minds with unbounded authority ; something that could establish or overwhelm empire, and strike a blow in the world that should resound through the universe.
Página 278 - I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Página 345 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle rather than a formed body...
Página 447 - I am now to address a free people : ages have passed away, and this is the first moment in which you could be distinguished by that appellation.
Página 299 - Power without right is the most odious and detestable object that can be offered to the human imagination. It is not only pernicious to those who are subject to it, but tends to its own destruction. It is what my noble friend (Lord Lyttleton) has truly described it,
Página 383 - I am now convinced beyond a doubt, that, unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place in that line, this army must inevitably be reduced to one or other of these three things ; starve, dissolve, or disperse in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can.