John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Volume 5John Frederick Smith W. Kent and Company, 1861 |
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... five millions money were thought a monstrous national expenditure per annum ; and this only a hundred and seventy years ago ! When William Pitt proclaimed war against France , because it would not re - admit a rejected of " dynasty ...
... five millions money were thought a monstrous national expenditure per annum ; and this only a hundred and seventy years ago ! When William Pitt proclaimed war against France , because it would not re - admit a rejected of " dynasty ...
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... five hours , when the French were routed on all points , having lost , according to the allies , five thousand men , whilst they themselves had only lost one thousand five hundred . Both prince Ferdinand and Granby distinguished ...
... five hours , when the French were routed on all points , having lost , according to the allies , five thousand men , whilst they themselves had only lost one thousand five hundred . Both prince Ferdinand and Granby distinguished ...
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... five thousand inhabitants , mostly fishermen . The possession of this island , Pitt knew very well , could be of no further use to England than as a humiliation to France , and as a set - off for Minorca . He had sent an armament ...
... five thousand inhabitants , mostly fishermen . The possession of this island , Pitt knew very well , could be of no further use to England than as a humiliation to France , and as a set - off for Minorca . He had sent an armament ...
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... five thousand pounds a year . Pitt was not the man to undertake a highly responsible office without discharging the duties , and he was next offered the chancellorship of the duchy of Lancaster ; but he preferred a simple pension of ...
... five thousand pounds a year . Pitt was not the man to undertake a highly responsible office without discharging the duties , and he was next offered the chancellorship of the duchy of Lancaster ; but he preferred a simple pension of ...
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... five days , through a most rugged and difficult country , carried Valencia D'Alcantara by a coup - de- Portugal was in the worst possible condition to resist an main , securing a great quantity of arms , ammunition , and enemy . The ...
... five days , through a most rugged and difficult country , carried Valencia D'Alcantara by a coup - de- Portugal was in the worst possible condition to resist an main , securing a great quantity of arms , ammunition , and enemy . The ...
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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.