Popular History of England, Volumen 6Bradbury, Evans, 1860 |
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... returned for Middlesex 290 " North Britain , " No. 45 . 262 Riots 290 Arrest of Wilkes 262 Sentence upon Wilkes 291 Negotiation for Mr. Pitt's return to Power 263 The King's Desire to Govern 263 His Expulsions from Parliament and Re ...
... returned for Middlesex 290 " North Britain , " No. 45 . 262 Riots 290 Arrest of Wilkes 262 Sentence upon Wilkes 291 Negotiation for Mr. Pitt's return to Power 263 The King's Desire to Govern 263 His Expulsions from Parliament and Re ...
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... returned unmolested to the head - quarters at Perth , where Mar had now about twelve thousand men under his command . As usual with the Highland chieftains , some were quarrelling about the post of honour , and all were waiting the ...
... returned unmolested to the head - quarters at Perth , where Mar had now about twelve thousand men under his command . As usual with the Highland chieftains , some were quarrelling about the post of honour , and all were waiting the ...
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... returned to Perth in numbers greatly reduced by desertion . " We were not long in our old quarters , " writes the Master of Sinclair , " when the bad news of our friends ' misfortune at Preston was brought us . " Mar felt that the time ...
... returned to Perth in numbers greatly reduced by desertion . " We were not long in our old quarters , " writes the Master of Sinclair , " when the bad news of our friends ' misfortune at Preston was brought us . " Mar felt that the time ...
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... returned to her lord ; whitened and rouged his face ; concealed his beard ; put on an artificial head - dress , and led him out with his handkerchief to his eyes , the very Mrs. Mills who had come in weeping and covering her face . At ...
... returned to her lord ; whitened and rouged his face ; concealed his beard ; put on an artificial head - dress , and led him out with his handkerchief to his eyes , the very Mrs. Mills who had come in weeping and covering her face . At ...
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... returned to Spanish ports , in a dismantled condition . The earl Marischal , with two frigates , carrying about three hundred troops , proceeded to Scotland ; and his brother , with Tullibardine , Seaforth , and a few other noble ...
... returned to Spanish ports , in a dismantled condition . The earl Marischal , with two frigates , carrying about three hundred troops , proceeded to Scotland ; and his brother , with Tullibardine , Seaforth , and a few other noble ...
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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.