History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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addressed administration affairs afterwards American answer appeared appointed Assembly became Bill brought Burke called carried cause Chancellor character Charles chief close Colonies continued Council course Court debate desired doubt Duke of Grafton duty Earl England express favour feeling follows formed former Francis Franklin friends further George give Government Grenville hand honour House of Commons important Junius King King's late least less letter Lord Bute Lord Chatham Lord North Majesty March means measure Members Memoirs mind Ministers nearly never North object observed obtained occasion Opposition Parliament party passed perhaps period person Pitt political popular present proceeded proposed question received remained respect Royal says Secretary seemed sent side speech spirit Stamp strong Temple thought tion took views vote whole Wilkes writes
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Seite 135 - Be to her faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind.
Seite 42 - Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Seite 134 - 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.
Seite 134 - The Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper: they have been wronged: they have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America that she will follow the example. There...
Seite 147 - I was not, like his Grace of Bedford, swaddled, and rocked, and dandled into a legislator; " Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me.
Seite 131 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.
Seite 93 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Seite 66 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Seite 131 - I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast that I was the first minister who looked for it, and found it, in the mountains of the North.
Seite 22 - Cambridge is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it. I do believe you would like it, if you knew what it was without inhabitants.