Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nation to the Close of the American Revolution, Band 2

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H. G. Bohn, 1854

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Seite 184 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Seite 525 - In this edition the notes are placed beneath the text, Humboldt's analytical Summaries and the passages hitherto suppressed are included, and new and comprehensive Indices are added. Travels in America. In 3 vols. • Views of Nature ; or, Contemplations of the Sublime Phenomena of Creation. Translated by EC OTT
Seite 376 - 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 378 - 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 174 - 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.
Seite 478 - Let me request you to rely on the plighted faith of your country, and place a full confidence in the purity of the intentions of Congress, that, previous to your dissolution as an army, they will cause all your accounts to be fairly liquidated, as directed in...
Seite 526 - STANLEY'S Classified Synopsis of the Principal Painters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, including an Account of some of the early German Masters.
Seite 6 - Cambrensis' Historical Works : Topography of Ireland ; History of the Conquest of Ireland ; Itinerary through Wales; and Description of Wales. With Index. Edited by THOS.
Seite 523 - Rev. JS Watson, MA On the Nature of the Gods, Divination, Fate, Laws, a. Republic, Consulship.
Seite 43 - That king James II. having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people; and, by the advice of jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby become vacant.

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