John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Volume 5John Frederick Smith W. Kent and Company, 1861 |
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... demanded , evidence of this marriage was carefully preserved in the it is said , on his knees , and with the most passionate family of the descendants , a highly respectable family of the pleading , the restoration of his wife , but in ...
... demanded , evidence of this marriage was carefully preserved in the it is said , on his knees , and with the most passionate family of the descendants , a highly respectable family of the pleading , the restoration of his wife , but in ...
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... demanded Guadaloupe and Belleisle too , simply in lieu of the French conquests in Germany . He now demurred to the surrender of Cape Breton , or in any case to forego the right of fishing along its coasts . He was not content with ...
... demanded Guadaloupe and Belleisle too , simply in lieu of the French conquests in Germany . He now demurred to the surrender of Cape Breton , or in any case to forego the right of fishing along its coasts . He was not content with ...
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... demanded Grenville to reinstate the princess's name in the house of commons . But Grenville , with his usual obstinacy , declined to do it , unless it were strongly pressed upon him in the house . He trusted , however , that the ...
... demanded Grenville to reinstate the princess's name in the house of commons . But Grenville , with his usual obstinacy , declined to do it , unless it were strongly pressed upon him in the house . He trusted , however , that the ...
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... demanded more in the particulars of character ; for you may be assured he has it in his power appointments , namely , that Pratt , who had opposed the to come into the service of his country upon any plan of politics he chooses to ...
... demanded more in the particulars of character ; for you may be assured he has it in his power appointments , namely , that Pratt , who had opposed the to come into the service of his country upon any plan of politics he chooses to ...
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... demanded , as a right , to be at the head of affairs , and tacitly dictated to the monarch whom he should and should not employ . The Bedford This matter settled , Chatham condescended to coax the haughty duke of Bedford , whom he met ...
... demanded , as a right , to be at the head of affairs , and tacitly dictated to the monarch whom he should and should not employ . The Bedford This matter settled , Chatham condescended to coax the haughty duke of Bedford , whom he met ...
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Page 190 - I call upon the honor of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.
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 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 189 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Page 197 - Britain will not impose any duty, tax, or assessment whatever, payable in any of His Majesty's colonies, provinces, and plantations in North America or the West Indies, except only such duties as it may be expedient to impose for the regulation of commerce, the net produce of such duties to be always paid and applied to and for the use of the colony, province, or plantation in which the same shall be respectively levied, in such manner as other duties collected by the authority of the respective...
Page 190 - And I again call upon your lordships, and the united powers of the State, to examine it thoroughly and decisively, and to stamp upon it an indelible stigma of the public abhorrence.
Page 393 - 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 371 - Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard, this is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper.
Page 48 - America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. 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.