History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... Letters to and from Lord Bute ....... 322 Lord North's conciliatory views ........ 323 His speech in the House of ... letter to the King 335 The King's reply ............... .. ib . Lord Stormont recalled from Paris .......... The ...
... Letters to and from Lord Bute ....... 322 Lord North's conciliatory views ........ 323 His speech in the House of ... letter to the King 335 The King's reply ............... .. ib . Lord Stormont recalled from Paris .......... The ...
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... these conferences and negotiations was written on his voyage homewards in the form of a letter to his son , the date being March 22. 1775 . LI . 1775 . CHAP . inmost thoughts of Franklin D 2 FROM THE PEACE OF UTRECHT . 35.
... these conferences and negotiations was written on his voyage homewards in the form of a letter to his son , the date being March 22. 1775 . LI . 1775 . CHAP . inmost thoughts of Franklin D 2 FROM THE PEACE OF UTRECHT . 35.
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... letter , were among those who expressed the highest astonishment and indigna- tion when at a later period a similar policy was adopted on the British side . About a fortnight from the date of this letter , and towards the middle of ...
... letter , were among those who expressed the highest astonishment and indigna- tion when at a later period a similar policy was adopted on the British side . About a fortnight from the date of this letter , and towards the middle of ...
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... letter , " the longing desire " which for many years I have had of visiting the " great metropolis of England . " - " But , " he adds , " I am now tied and must set inclination aside . " * It is remarkable that his letters at that time ...
... letter , " the longing desire " which for many years I have had of visiting the " great metropolis of England . " - " But , " he adds , " I am now tied and must set inclination aside . " * It is remarkable that his letters at that time ...
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... letters there appears given incidentally , and as it were by chance , a golden rule upon that subject : - " As to the ... Letter to Joseph Reed , December 15. 1775 . Sir A. Foster's Notes on the United States ( unpublished ) . See ...
... letters there appears given incidentally , and as it were by chance , a golden rule upon that subject : - " As to the ... Letter to Joseph Reed , December 15. 1775 . Sir A. Foster's Notes on the United States ( unpublished ) . See ...
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Seite 31 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Seite 72 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Seite 74 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
Seite 458 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 51 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — " Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Seite 33 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Seite 220 - Pounds, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops, at or near Lexington and Concord, in the Province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April.
Seite 306 - 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...
Seite 307 - I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Seite 51 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...