Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1854 - History, Modern |
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... Lord Russell . The regular historians will give you the detail of the transactions by which this period is rendered so memorable . But you must by all means continue your study of the Me- moirs of Dalrymple , which contain very curious ...
... Lord Russell . The regular historians will give you the detail of the transactions by which this period is rendered so memorable . But you must by all means continue your study of the Me- moirs of Dalrymple , which contain very curious ...
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... Lord Russell . These distinguished men were tried for treason , and found guilty , with what propriety I cannot now ... Lord Russell ; Lord Russell , the amiable and the good ; the hus- band with whom the bitterness of death was past ...
... Lord Russell . These distinguished men were tried for treason , and found guilty , with what propriety I cannot now ... Lord Russell ; Lord Russell , the amiable and the good ; the hus- band with whom the bitterness of death was past ...
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... Lord Stafford and others ( supposed conspirators in this Popish plot ) were therefore formally murdered . The king durst not interpose , nor was he of a temper to disturb his own security in the cause of insulted humanity . It is here ...
... Lord Stafford and others ( supposed conspirators in this Popish plot ) were therefore formally murdered . The king durst not interpose , nor was he of a temper to disturb his own security in the cause of insulted humanity . It is here ...
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... Lords , and the parlia- ment was adjourned before these proposed alterations could be adjusted . In point of fact , it never afterwards became a law . The truth is , that the com- mons should have provided for the case of the Dissenters ...
... Lords , and the parlia- ment was adjourned before these proposed alterations could be adjusted . In point of fact , it never afterwards became a law . The truth is , that the com- mons should have provided for the case of the Dissenters ...
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... Lords was , who were the proper persons to decide on these concessions - a committee of the clergy or a committee of the clergy and laity conjointly ? Burnet tells us that he himself made a mistake ( and a very egregious mistake it was ) ...
... Lords was , who were the proper persons to decide on these concessions - a committee of the clergy or a committee of the clergy and laity conjointly ? Burnet tells us that he himself made a mistake ( and a very egregious mistake it was ) ...
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Page 412 - ... sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire...
Page 382 - 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 411 - It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Page 514 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...
Page 432 - For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Page 412 - English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Page 431 - ... and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to live on? Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands, and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor?
Page 380 - 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 411 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 178 - I shall therefore venture to acknowledge, that, not only as a man, but as a British subject, I pray for the flourishing commerce of Germany, Spain, Italy, and even France itself. I am at least certain that Great Britain, and all those nations, would flourish more, did their sovereigns and ministers adopt such enlarged and benevolent sentiments towards each other.