John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Volume 5John Frederick Smith W. Kent and Company, 1861 |
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Page 33
... continued to occupy almost the sole thought and interest of the session . On the 23rd of November the question of privilege came on ; and though he was absent , it was actively pushed by the ministers . Mr. Wilbraham protested against ...
... continued to occupy almost the sole thought and interest of the session . On the 23rd of November the question of privilege came on ; and though he was absent , it was actively pushed by the ministers . Mr. Wilbraham protested against ...
Page 34
... continued for four days , witnesses being examined , but to little satisfaction of government , for these declared that the whole City thought Wilkes in the right . Both houses passed resolutions , thanking the sheriff for the discharge ...
... continued for four days , witnesses being examined , but to little satisfaction of government , for these declared that the whole City thought Wilkes in the right . Both houses passed resolutions , thanking the sheriff for the discharge ...
Page 35
... ( Continued ) . Commencement of the Troubles with America - Grenville's Stamp Act- Barre's Speech - Franklin's Letters - Ferment in America - House of Burgesses dissolved in Virginia - Patrick Henry - Dangerous Illness of George III ...
... ( Continued ) . Commencement of the Troubles with America - Grenville's Stamp Act- Barre's Speech - Franklin's Letters - Ferment in America - House of Burgesses dissolved in Virginia - Patrick Henry - Dangerous Illness of George III ...
Page 48
... continued , " to show that even under arbitrary reigns parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent . The gentleman asks when the Americans were emancipated ? But I desire to know when they were made slaves ? " He ...
... continued , " to show that even under arbitrary reigns parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent . The gentleman asks when the Americans were emancipated ? But I desire to know when they were made slaves ? " He ...
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... continued for upwards of a year . During this time the public and many of his friends expressed the utmost impatience , not comprehending the nature of the case ; and his enemies demanded why , being lucapable or indisposed to discharge ...
... continued for upwards of a year . During this time the public and many of his friends expressed the utmost impatience , not comprehending the nature of the case ; and his enemies demanded why , being lucapable or indisposed to discharge ...
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Page 243 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 432 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 190 - From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord* frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.
Page 3 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Page 51 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Page 48 - 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.
Page 114 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
Page 106 - SIR, — His Majesty has thought proper to order a new commission of the Treasury to be made out, in which I do not perceive your name.
Page 393 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.
Page 47 - Majesty, the property of your Majesty's commons of America. It is an absurdity in terms. The distinction between legislation and taxation is essentially necessary to liberty. The Crown, the Peers, are equally legislative powers with the Commons. If taxation be a part of simple legislation, the Crown...