A Popular History of England: From the Earliest Times to the Accession of Victoria, Volume 4D. Estes and C. E. Lauriat, 1876 - Great Britain |
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... opinions as you can scarcely form any idea of . " The king's anger and indignation were indeed extreme . His foresight in politics , his experience as a general , his Dutch pride , were all equally wounded . They insisted on a reduction ...
... opinions as you can scarcely form any idea of . " The king's anger and indignation were indeed extreme . His foresight in politics , his experience as a general , his Dutch pride , were all equally wounded . They insisted on a reduction ...
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... opinion that nothing can be so fatal to us as that distrust or jealousy should arise between me and my people . I should , however , have thought distrust impossible after what I have undertaken , ventured , and acted , in order to ...
... opinion that nothing can be so fatal to us as that distrust or jealousy should arise between me and my people . I should , however , have thought distrust impossible after what I have undertaken , ventured , and acted , in order to ...
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... opinion of Pope Innocent XII . was favorable to France : Louis XIV . ap- peared to be in a condition to defend himself alone against all Europe . On the 15th of November he solemnly accepted the bequest . - William's surprise equalled ...
... opinion of Pope Innocent XII . was favorable to France : Louis XIV . ap- peared to be in a condition to defend himself alone against all Europe . On the 15th of November he solemnly accepted the bequest . - William's surprise equalled ...
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... opinion , cannot take place ; and I fear we shall feel the contrary too soon . " The merchants of Holland deceived themselves , no less than did the statesmen of England , as to the consequences of the event which had just taken place ...
... opinion , cannot take place ; and I fear we shall feel the contrary too soon . " The merchants of Holland deceived themselves , no less than did the statesmen of England , as to the consequences of the event which had just taken place ...
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... opinion , he published on the 11th of November the order for the dissolution of Parliament . " I pray God to bless the resolution which your Majesty has just taken of convoking a new Parliament , " Heinsius wrote to him on the 15th ...
... opinion , he published on the 11th of November the order for the dissolution of Parliament . " I pray God to bless the resolution which your Majesty has just taken of convoking a new Parliament , " Heinsius wrote to him on the 15th ...
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Page 299 - This is the road that all heroes have trod before him. He is traduced and abused for his supposed motives. He will remember that obloquy is a necessary ingredient in the composition of all true glory ; he will remember that it was not only in the Roman customs, but it is in the nature and constitution of things, that calumny and abuse are essential parts of triumph.
Page 247 - 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 — to the cannibal savage, torturing, murdering...
Page 246 - But yesterday, and England might have stood against the world ; now, none so poor to do her reverence...
Page 351 - Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said : It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways.
Page 268 - Britain her empire on the ocean — her boasted grand and substantial superiority, which made the world bend before her ! Oh inestimable rights, that have taken from us our rank among nations, our importance abroad, and our happiness at home...
Page 230 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 247 - My lords, we are called upon as members of this House, as men, as Christian men, to protest against such notions standing near the Throne, polluting the ear of majesty. "That God and nature put into our hands!
Page 283 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
Page 230 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; 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 250 - Nothing short of independence, it appears to me, can possibly do. A peace on other terms would, if I may be allowed the expression, be a peace of war. The injuries we have received from the British nation were so unprovoked, and have been so great and so many, that they can never be forgotten.