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... produce that impression upon the operations in Westphalia which England too hastily anticipated ; and it certainly was a con- quest dearly purchased at the loss of two thou- sand lives ! . In both the East and West Indies the British ...
... produce that impression upon the operations in Westphalia which England too hastily anticipated ; and it certainly was a con- quest dearly purchased at the loss of two thou- sand lives ! . In both the East and West Indies the British ...
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... produce the most auspicious consequences . An expedition was consequently fitted out , under the command of sir George Pococke and the earl of Albemarle , which sailed from Portsmouth on the 5th March , and arrived off the Havanah ...
... produce the most auspicious consequences . An expedition was consequently fitted out , under the command of sir George Pococke and the earl of Albemarle , which sailed from Portsmouth on the 5th March , and arrived off the Havanah ...
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... produced violent effects upon his constitution . He became a martyr to the gout ; and the agitation of his mind , no less than his bodily sufferings , impelled him to seek relief in frequent change of residence . Before the prorogation ...
... produced violent effects upon his constitution . He became a martyr to the gout ; and the agitation of his mind , no less than his bodily sufferings , impelled him to seek relief in frequent change of residence . Before the prorogation ...
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... produced disorder and tumult in several places . Mr Wilkes , who had nearly sunk into oblivion in consequence of his residence on the continent , had the presumption to return home on the dissolution of parliament , and to offer himself ...
... produced disorder and tumult in several places . Mr Wilkes , who had nearly sunk into oblivion in consequence of his residence on the continent , had the presumption to return home on the dissolution of parliament , and to offer himself ...
Side 56
... produced a tolerable state of harmony , which con- tinued during the remainder of the year . Among the domestic transactions of this year may be briefly mentioned the death of the princess Louisa Anne , second sister of his Majesty ...
... produced a tolerable state of harmony , which con- tinued during the remainder of the year . Among the domestic transactions of this year may be briefly mentioned the death of the princess Louisa Anne , second sister of his Majesty ...
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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.