The history of England, from the accession of George iii., 1760, to the accession of queen Victoria, 1837, Volume 3 |
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... hope or to fear , from the favor or displeasure of the crown . Government should have force adequate to its functions , but no more : if it had enough to support itself in abusing or neglecting them , they must ever be abused or ...
... hope or to fear , from the favor or displeasure of the crown . Government should have force adequate to its functions , but no more : if it had enough to support itself in abusing or neglecting them , they must ever be abused or ...
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... hope of alliance in Europe is abandoned : thus three of our West India islands have been torn from us in one summer ; while Jamaica , the most important of all , has been neglected , and every inquiry into that neglect stifled : thus ...
... hope of alliance in Europe is abandoned : thus three of our West India islands have been torn from us in one summer ; while Jamaica , the most important of all , has been neglected , and every inquiry into that neglect stifled : thus ...
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... In March , this year , he answers , evidently to a hint respecting American independence , that his love of this country makes him hope he never may live to see the day when XXII . 1780 . CHAP it shall be granted ; C 2 GEORGE III . 19.
... In March , this year , he answers , evidently to a hint respecting American independence , that his love of this country makes him hope he never may live to see the day when XXII . 1780 . CHAP it shall be granted ; C 2 GEORGE III . 19.
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... hope and confidence ; inclining them to measures that were likely to substitute an efficient for a distracted administration : but when Mr. Dunning brought forward his second resolution , the violence of opposition was found to have ...
... hope and confidence ; inclining them to measures that were likely to substitute an efficient for a distracted administration : but when Mr. Dunning brought forward his second resolution , the violence of opposition was found to have ...
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... hope and confidence ; the press teemed with effusions in his honor ; and ministers themselves began to look on him as the main stay of their power . On the thirteenth of February , sir George relieved Minorca ; and having landed ...
... hope and confidence ; the press teemed with effusions in his honor ; and ministers themselves began to look on him as the main stay of their power . On the thirteenth of February , sir George relieved Minorca ; and having landed ...
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Page 191 - Called upon by your country to defend its invaded rights, you accepted the sacred charge, before it had formed alliances, and whilst it was without funds or a government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
Page 189 - I cannot help fearing the result of the measure in contemplation, under present circumstances, when I see such a number of men, goaded by a thousand stings of reflection on the past and of anticipation on the future, about to be turned into the world, soured by penury and what they call the ingratitude of the public, involved in debts without one farthing of money to carry them home, after having spent the flower of their days, and many of them their patrimonies, in establishing the...
Page 346 - ... disconnecting the authority to command service, from the power of animating it by reward; and for allotting to the prince all the invidious duties of government, without the means of softening them to the public, by any one act of grace, favour, or benignity.
Page 420 - ... temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts ; — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the...
Page 143 - ... to direct Mr. Grenville, that the independency of the thirteen Provinces should be proposed by him in the first instance, instead of making it a condition of a general treaty...
Page 104 - I have received with sentiments of the deepest concern the communication which Lord George Germain has made me of the unfortunate result of the operations in Virginia. I particularly lament it on account of the consequences connected with it and the difficulties which it may produce in carrying on the public business or in repairing such a misfortune. But I trust that neither Lord George Germain nor any member of the Cabinet will suppose that it makes the smallest alteration in those principles of...
Page 103 - to finish my career, however far advanced in years, were I first minister of France, before I had witnessed the termination of this great contest between England and America.
Page 191 - Having defended the standard of liberty in this new world, having taught a lesson useful to those who inflict, and to those who feel oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens : but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command, — it will continue to animate remotest ages.
Page 281 - To tell you the truth," replied Mr. Fox, " nor I neither. There is something in all these subjects that passes my comprehension — something so wide that I could never embrace them myself, or find any one who did.
Page 217 - I trust the house of lords will this day feel, that the hour is come, for which the wisdom of our ancestors established that respectable corps in the state, to prevent either the crown or the commons from encroaching on the rights of each other.