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... interests of the ecclesiastical state and Italy in general 1780. His holiness is distressed by the counter - requisitions made by the empress of Russia and the monarchs of the house of Bourbon . 1781 . 1782 . 1783 . 1784 . 1785 . -The ...
... interests of the ecclesiastical state and Italy in general 1780. His holiness is distressed by the counter - requisitions made by the empress of Russia and the monarchs of the house of Bourbon . 1781 . 1782 . 1783 . 1784 . 1785 . -The ...
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... interests have been hitherto very greatly promoted by our friendly intercourse with the colonies . Do not " let us endanger possession for contingency , do not let us substitute untried " theories for a system experimentally ascertained ...
... interests have been hitherto very greatly promoted by our friendly intercourse with the colonies . Do not " let us endanger possession for contingency , do not let us substitute untried " theories for a system experimentally ascertained ...
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... interests had , indeed , been attended to in the late edict of reconciliation , which rendered the privileges of citizenship more easily attainable to them ; decreeing that , on the payment of a small sum , twenty- five of them should ...
... interests had , indeed , been attended to in the late edict of reconciliation , which rendered the privileges of citizenship more easily attainable to them ; decreeing that , on the payment of a small sum , twenty- five of them should ...
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... interests , as occasion might invite . His secret views became more suspected when it was known that his brother , prince Henry of Prussia , under pretence of making a visit to his sister , the queen of Sweden , had changed his route ...
... interests , as occasion might invite . His secret views became more suspected when it was known that his brother , prince Henry of Prussia , under pretence of making a visit to his sister , the queen of Sweden , had changed his route ...
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... interests being opposed by France in the northern courts , it was conjectured by some that they were brought about by the intrigues of the French ambassador at Copenhagen . " The national attention was , at this time , directed to an ...
... interests being opposed by France in the northern courts , it was conjectured by some that they were brought about by the intrigues of the French ambassador at Copenhagen . " The national attention was , at this time , directed to an ...
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Page 230 - ... that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved...
Page 193 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Page 186 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.
Page 150 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them, in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Page 7 - Permit me, sire, further to observe, that whoever has already dared, or shall hereafter endeavour, by false insinuations and suggestions, to alienate your Majesty's affections from your loyal subjects in general, and from the City of London in particular, and to withdraw your confidence...
Page 277 - You cannot conciliate America by your present measures. You cannot subdue her by your present or by any measures. What, then, can you do ? You cannot conquer ; you cannot gain ; but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them.
Page 277 - I CANNOT, my lords, I WILL NOT join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment : it is not a time for adulation : the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne, in the language of TRUTH.
Page 296 - 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!
Page 141 - Principes pro victoria pugnant; comites pro principe. Si civitas, in qua orti sunt, longa pace et otio torpeat plerique nobilium...
Page 277 - As to the disposition of foreign powers, which is asserted to be pacific and friendly, let us judge, my Lords, rather by their actions and the nature of things than by interested assertions. The uniform assistance supplied to America by France suggests a different conclusion. The most important interests of France, in aggrandising and enriching herself with what she most wants, supplies of every naval store from America, must inspire her with different sentiments.