History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... Commons ....... 351 .... 352 ..... 354 356 357 358 359 ib . 360 361 ib . 362 363 Nephale Teresa CHAPTER LVIII . New Tru Bebetinat n at his camp of Valley Forge ........... 365 Furke Board of War 366 .......... The Co s Cabal " 367 The E ...
... Commons ....... 351 .... 352 ..... 354 356 357 358 359 ib . 360 361 ib . 362 363 Nephale Teresa CHAPTER LVIII . New Tru Bebetinat n at his camp of Valley Forge ........... 365 Furke Board of War 366 .......... The Co s Cabal " 367 The E ...
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... 299 300 301 304 306 307 ... 308 Reply of Lord Sandwich .... Chatham's second speech The tapestry hangings On the employment of Indians ..... ... A.D. 1777. Lord Amherst's testimony ... Debate in the Commons CONTENTS . xi.
... 299 300 301 304 306 307 ... 308 Reply of Lord Sandwich .... Chatham's second speech The tapestry hangings On the employment of Indians ..... ... A.D. 1777. Lord Amherst's testimony ... Debate in the Commons CONTENTS . xi.
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... Commons News of Burgoyne's surrender Arrival of Lord Petersham ...... Loyal spirit aroused ....... Subscriptions for new regiments And for the American prisoners ....... Effect upon the Court of Versailles ...... 1778. Treaty of ...
... Commons News of Burgoyne's surrender Arrival of Lord Petersham ...... Loyal spirit aroused ....... Subscriptions for new regiments And for the American prisoners ....... Effect upon the Court of Versailles ...... 1778. Treaty of ...
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... Commons ....... 351 ... 352 ... 354 356 357 358 359 The English Roman Catholics ib . The penal code against them ........ 360 Its repeal ..... ........................... 361 A Scottish Act promised ....... ib . Popular ferment in ...
... Commons ....... 351 ... 352 ... 354 356 357 358 359 The English Roman Catholics ib . The penal code against them ........ 360 Its repeal ..... ........................... 361 A Scottish Act promised ....... ib . Popular ferment in ...
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... Commons No - Popery riots in Scotland The Protestant Associations ........... 386 387 € 388 389 ... ib . 390 392 393 394 395 396 Overture to Lords Shelburne and Camden ............ 397 Lord Chancellor Thurlow ..... 398 War declared with ...
... Commons No - Popery riots in Scotland The Protestant Associations ........... 386 387 € 388 389 ... ib . 390 392 393 394 395 396 Overture to Lords Shelburne and Camden ............ 397 Lord Chancellor Thurlow ..... 398 War declared with ...
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Page 31 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 72 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Page 74 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
Page 458 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 51 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — " Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 33 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Page 220 - Pounds, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops, at or near Lexington and Concord, in the Province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April.
Page 306 - That God and nature put into our hands !' I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature ; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. — What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife...
Page 307 - I call upon the honour 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.
Page 51 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...