A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 6D. Appleton, 1887 - Great Britain |
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Page 520 - Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty will be borne by the people without mutiny or murmur. But if a long train of abuses, prevarications, and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under and see whither they are going...
Page 103 - England, she must show herself disposed to renounce her views of aggression and aggrandisement, and to confine herself within her own territory, without insulting other governments, without disturbing their tranquillity, without violating their rights.
Page 561 - I have it in particular command from his Majesty, to recommend it to you to apply yourselves to the consideration of such measures as may be most likely to strengthen and cement a general union of sentiment among all classes and descriptions of his Majesty's subjects in support of the established constitution ; with this view, his Majesty trusts that the situation of his Majesty'* Catholic subjects will engage your serious attention, and, in the consideration of this subject, he relies on the wisdom...
Page 239 - Mr. Grenville thought better of the wisdom and power of human legislation than in truth it deserves. He conceived, and many conceived along with him, that the flourishing . trade of this country was greatly owing to law and institution, and not quite so much to liberty ; for but too many are apt to believe regulation to be commerce, and taxes to be revenue.
Page 240 - ... the most effectual plan for advancing a people to greatness, is to maintain that order of things which nature has pointed out ; by allowing every man, as long as he observes the rules of justice, to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and his capital into the freest competition with those of his fellow-citizens.
Page 171 - Dispensatory, the Complete justice and a Book of Farriery. In the corner, by the fireside, stood a large wooden twoarmed chair with a cushion; and within the chimney-corner were a couple of seats. Here, at Christmas, he entertained his tenants assembled round a glowing fire made of the roots of trees and other great logs, and told and heard the traditionary tales of the village respecting ghosts and witches till fear made diem afraid to move. In the mean time the jorum of ale was in continual circulation.
Page 401 - I will not barter English commerce for Irish slavery; that is not the price I would pay, nor is this the thing I would purchase.
Page 77 - ... excite disturbances in other countries — to disregard the rights of neutral nations — and to pursue views of conquest and...
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Page 309 - I shall soon be enabled to transmit to you the sketch or outlines of an act of Parliament to be adopted by the legislatures of the respective kingdoms, by which the superintending power and supremacy of Great Britain, in all matters of state and general commerce, will be virtually and effectually acknowledged...