Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III. to which is Added Remarks on Party, and an Appendix, Volume 1 |
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... remains of feudal darkness in Europe carried its light over other quarters of the globe , and discovered and cultivated unknown regions . Where- fore , his capacity , whether to appreciate his position , or to aid in the progress of his ...
... remains of feudal darkness in Europe carried its light over other quarters of the globe , and discovered and cultivated unknown regions . Where- fore , his capacity , whether to appreciate his position , or to aid in the progress of his ...
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... remains of his great displays in the House of Lords have , in like manner , been preserved , chiefly in the two speeches reported by Mr. Hugh Boyd ; the second of which , the most celebrated of all , upon the employ- ment of the Indians ...
... remains of his great displays in the House of Lords have , in like manner , been preserved , chiefly in the two speeches reported by Mr. Hugh Boyd ; the second of which , the most celebrated of all , upon the employ- ment of the Indians ...
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... remains which have reached us . All accounts , however , concur in representing those effects to have been prodigious , The spirit and vehe- mence which animated its greater passages - their per- fect application to the subject - matter ...
... remains which have reached us . All accounts , however , concur in representing those effects to have been prodigious , The spirit and vehe- mence which animated its greater passages - their per- fect application to the subject - matter ...
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... remains for us but to stand foremost in the breach , to repair it , or to perish in it ? -Unlimited power corrupts the pos- sessor , and this I know , that where law ends , there tyranny begins . " In reference to the same subject , the ...
... remains for us but to stand foremost in the breach , to repair it , or to perish in it ? -Unlimited power corrupts the pos- sessor , and this I know , that where law ends , there tyranny begins . " In reference to the same subject , the ...
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... remains to speak of Lord Chatham as a private man , and he appears to have been in all respects exem- plary and amiable . His disposition was exceedingly affectionate . The pride , bordering upon insolence , in which he showed himself ...
... remains to speak of Lord Chatham as a private man , and he appears to have been in all respects exem- plary and amiable . His disposition was exceedingly affectionate . The pride , bordering upon insolence , in which he showed himself ...
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Page 50 - 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 46 - 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 51 - Spain; in vain he defended and established the honour, the liberties, the religion, the Protestant religion, of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of popery and the inquisition, if these more than popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us...
Page 47 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Page 174 - It would (among public misfortunes) be an evil more natural and tolerable, that the House of Commons should be infected with every epidemical frenzy of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity, some sympathy of nature with their constituents, than that they should in all cases be wholly untouched by the opinions and feelings of the people out of doors.
Page 51 - 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 163 - A species of men to whom a state of order would become a sentence of obscurity, are nourished into a dangerous magnitude by the heat of intestine disturbances ; and it is no wonder that, by a sort of sinister piety, they cherish, in their turn, the disorders which are the parents of all their consequence.
Page 174 - The king is the representative of the people ; so are the lords ; so are the judges. They all are trustees for the people, as well as the commons ; because no power is given for the sole sake of the holder ; and although government certainly is an institution of divine authority, yet its forms, and the persons who administer it, all originate from the people.
Page 51 - 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...
Page 51 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation. I call upon that right reverend bench, those holy ministers of the gospel, and pious pastors of our church; I conjure them to join in the holy work, and vindicate the religion of their God.