Popular History of England, Volumen 6Bradbury, Evans, 1860 |
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... PERIOD TO OUR OWN TIMES . BY CHARLES KNIGHT . " The harvest gathered in the fields of the Past is to be brought home for the use of the Present . " - DR . ARNOLD , Lectures on Modern History . VOLUME VI . FROM THE ACCSSEION OF GEORGE I ...
... PERIOD TO OUR OWN TIMES . BY CHARLES KNIGHT . " The harvest gathered in the fields of the Past is to be brought home for the use of the Present . " - DR . ARNOLD , Lectures on Modern History . VOLUME VI . FROM THE ACCSSEION OF GEORGE I ...
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... Hogarth's Caricature Portrait of Wilkes . 266 General Conway 269 Duke of Grafton 289 Charles Pratt , Lord Camden 270 House of Lords . ( From a Print of the Period . ) 303 viii CHAPTER XX.-A.D. 1768 to A.D. 1771 . PAGE PAGE.
... Hogarth's Caricature Portrait of Wilkes . 266 General Conway 269 Duke of Grafton 289 Charles Pratt , Lord Camden 270 House of Lords . ( From a Print of the Period . ) 303 viii CHAPTER XX.-A.D. 1768 to A.D. 1771 . PAGE PAGE.
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... period 322 Medal struck to commemorate the Evacuation Stanislaus Augustus 324 of Boston 363 Turkish Troops 326 Silas Deane . 364 Hyder Ali . ( From a Hindu Miniature 333 Sir Philip Francis 331 CHAPTER XXIV.-A.D. 1776 to A.D. 1777 ...
... period 322 Medal struck to commemorate the Evacuation Stanislaus Augustus 324 of Boston 363 Turkish Troops 326 Silas Deane . 364 Hyder Ali . ( From a Hindu Miniature 333 Sir Philip Francis 331 CHAPTER XXIV.-A.D. 1776 to A.D. 1777 ...
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... period . Mob intimidation was held to be more effective even than bribery . The impeachments of Bolingbroke , Oxford , and Ormond were followed by riots of a really serious character . At Manchester , in June , the meeting - houses of ...
... period . Mob intimidation was held to be more effective even than bribery . The impeachments of Bolingbroke , Oxford , and Ormond were followed by riots of a really serious character . At Manchester , in June , the meeting - houses of ...
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... period , the Master of Sinclair , who took an important part in the great rising of 1715 , directs against Mar the extremest force of " the peculiar tone of asperity " which caused his narrative to be so long withheld from the public ...
... period , the Master of Sinclair , who took an important part in the great rising of 1715 , directs against Mar the extremest force of " the peculiar tone of asperity " which caused his narrative to be so long withheld from the public ...
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Página 337 - 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 378 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Página 363 - 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 458 - 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 440 - 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 274 - 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 341 - 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 443 - 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 295 - 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 379 - 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.