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... confidence . " * It is to be observed that at the time of the Prince's death , Walpole speaks of " the quiet , inoffensive good sense of the Princess , who had never said a foolish thing nor done a disobliging one , since her arrival in ...
... confidence . " * It is to be observed that at the time of the Prince's death , Walpole speaks of " the quiet , inoffensive good sense of the Princess , who had never said a foolish thing nor done a disobliging one , since her arrival in ...
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... confidence placed in him by the Princess , the docility with which the young Prince listened to his instructions , and the new aspirations of the Tory party , tempted him forward . The more ambitious of that party were content to graft ...
... confidence placed in him by the Princess , the docility with which the young Prince listened to his instructions , and the new aspirations of the Tory party , tempted him forward . The more ambitious of that party were content to graft ...
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... confidence or rendering service to the Crown . He relieved them from this proscription , and sought , by abolishing party and national distinction , to reign , indeed , king and protector of all his people . This measure , so just and ...
... confidence or rendering service to the Crown . He relieved them from this proscription , and sought , by abolishing party and national distinction , to reign , indeed , king and protector of all his people . This measure , so just and ...
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Earl John Russell Russell. and confidence which ought to flow from the people to their representatives . " * Let us now hear Mr. Burke , speaking of the same period , but in the sense of the Whigs and the Rockingham Oppo- sition : 66 ...
Earl John Russell Russell. and confidence which ought to flow from the people to their representatives . " * Let us now hear Mr. Burke , speaking of the same period , but in the sense of the Whigs and the Rockingham Oppo- sition : 66 ...
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... confidence equally premature . " * Sir Richard Heron , in a letter to Sir Charles Bunbury , says : " Mr. Charles Fox , who I suppose was your schoolfellow , and who is but twenty , made a great figure last night upon the petition of the ...
... confidence equally premature . " * Sir Richard Heron , in a letter to Sir Charles Bunbury , says : " Mr. Charles Fox , who I suppose was your schoolfellow , and who is but twenty , made a great figure last night upon the petition of the ...
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Page 229 - Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 43 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in 20 government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 90 - Do not entertain so weak an imagination as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce.
Page 49 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 122 - ... effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain: that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them ; but that to their parliament was no part of our constitution...
Page 48 - Great Britain give and grant to your majesty, what ? Our own property ? No. We give and grant to your majesty, the property of your majesty's commons of America.
Page 121 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
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.
Page 91 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive and the only honourable conquests — not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Page 119 - He has dissolved Representative houses repeatedly and continually for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers...