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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... sent to ask permission from her brother - in - law to visit him . Somers , who offered himself as a mediator between the princess and the king , found William in his cabinet , his head bowed on his hands , and absorbed in grief . He ...
... sent to ask permission from her brother - in - law to visit him . Somers , who offered himself as a mediator between the princess and the king , found William in his cabinet , his head bowed on his hands , and absorbed in grief . He ...
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... sent by Parliament , " and so much the more because you feel the greatness of our loss ; it exceeds all I can express , and indeed I am not able to think of anything else . " He had written to Heinsius : " I tell you in confidence , I ...
... sent by Parliament , " and so much the more because you feel the greatness of our loss ; it exceeds all I can express , and indeed I am not able to think of anything else . " He had written to Heinsius : " I tell you in confidence , I ...
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... sent him to the King of France , and continued his own journey to Calais . He still hoped some event would give him the opportunity to urge that the French troops might be embarked without further delay , and it was for this reason he ...
... sent him to the King of France , and continued his own journey to Calais . He still hoped some event would give him the opportunity to urge that the French troops might be embarked without further delay , and it was for this reason he ...
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... sent out to reconnoitre appeared at the door , with pale face and disconcerted air . " The king does not hunt to - morrow , " he said ; " the coaches have returned to Charing Cross ; the guards that were sent round to Richmond have just ...
... sent out to reconnoitre appeared at the door , with pale face and disconcerted air . " The king does not hunt to - morrow , " he said ; " the coaches have returned to Charing Cross ; the guards that were sent round to Richmond have just ...
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... sent for Pendergrass . " You are a man of honor , " he said , “ and I am grateful to you . But you must feel that the considerations which have induced you to tell us so much ought to induce you to tell us something more . The cau ...
... sent for Pendergrass . " You are a man of honor , " he said , “ and I am grateful to you . But you must feel that the considerations which have induced you to tell us so much ought to induce you to tell us something more . The cau ...
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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.