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... objects of dread . Her finances were low , and her navy was ruined ; her affairs in America and the West Indies were irretrievable ; and her West India possessions she was sensible must surrender to the first English armament that ...
... objects of dread . Her finances were low , and her navy was ruined ; her affairs in America and the West Indies were irretrievable ; and her West India possessions she was sensible must surrender to the first English armament that ...
Side 7
... object of jealousy , and his conduct was vigilantly scrutinized . This nobleman had been much about the person of the prince before his elevation to the throne , and the attachment of his royal master to him was no secret . A general ...
... object of jealousy , and his conduct was vigilantly scrutinized . This nobleman had been much about the person of the prince before his elevation to the throne , and the attachment of his royal master to him was no secret . A general ...
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... object of this enterprise was the reduction of the city of Manilla , the capital of the island of Luconia , the seat of the Spanish government in those islands , and the centre of communication between South America and the East Indies ...
... object of this enterprise was the reduction of the city of Manilla , the capital of the island of Luconia , the seat of the Spanish government in those islands , and the centre of communication between South America and the East Indies ...
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... object of attention . The order of the day being read for his attendance , the speaker pro- duced a letter from him , enclosing a certificate , purporting to be from one of the physicians of the king of France , and of an army surgeon ...
... object of attention . The order of the day being read for his attendance , the speaker pro- duced a letter from him , enclosing a certificate , purporting to be from one of the physicians of the king of France , and of an army surgeon ...
Side 57
... object of dis- cussion . A committee of the whole house was formed for the purpose of instituting an inquiry in- to the state of American affairs , in the necessity of which both ministers and the opposition concur- red , though from ...
... object of dis- cussion . A committee of the whole house was formed for the purpose of instituting an inquiry in- to the state of American affairs , in the necessity of which both ministers and the opposition concur- red , though from ...
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Side 127 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Side 149 - ... commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom, but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. Any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort, and if we must fall, let us fall like men.
Side 45 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Side 90 - ... better securing the execution of the laws, and the just dependence of the colonies upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain.
Side 149 - In God's name, if it is absolutely necessary to declare either for peace or war, and the former cannot be preserved with honour, why is not the latter commenced without hesitation? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom ; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. — But, my Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort; and if we must fall, let us fall like men...
Side 149 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me ; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy...
Side 42 - They nourished up by your indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to...
Side 334 - ... usury of twelve per cent to the first overgrown principal; and has again grafted on this meliorated stock a perpetual annuity of six per cent, to take place from the year 1781. Let no man hereafter talk of the decaying energies of Nature. All the acts and monuments in the records of peculation, the consolidated corruption of ages, the patterns of exemplary plunder in the heroic times of Roman iniquity, never equalled the gigantic corruption of this single act. Never did Nero, in all the insolent...
Side 112 - American forces ; on presenting it, congress unanimously adopted this resolution : " that they would maintain and assist him, and adhere to him with their lives and fortunes in the cause of American liberty.
Side 330 - But his superiority over other learned men consisted chiefly in what may be called the art of thinking, the art of using his mind, a certain continual power of seizing the useful substance of all that he knew and exhibiting it in a clear and forcible manner ; so that knowledge which we often see to be no better than lumber in men of dull understanding was in him true, evident, and actual wisdom.