Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution, Band 2John Owen, 1841 |
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... Britain , " & c . & c . But when we come to open the volumes of Macpherson , we shall , in the first place , be somewhat dissatisfied with the intro- duction : Macpherson tells his story , but not with simplicity ; while simplicity ...
... Britain , " & c . & c . But when we come to open the volumes of Macpherson , we shall , in the first place , be somewhat dissatisfied with the intro- duction : Macpherson tells his story , but not with simplicity ; while simplicity ...
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... in every respect so masterly , that it is useless for me to do more than refer to it . Macpherson has written a history of Great Britain from the Restoration to the accession of the House of Hanover . WILLIAM THE THIRD . 123.
... in every respect so masterly , that it is useless for me to do more than refer to it . Macpherson has written a history of Great Britain from the Restoration to the accession of the House of Hanover . WILLIAM THE THIRD . 123.
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... Britain under the name of her deliverer from civil tyran- ny and religious persecution ; that he was considered in the same important light by the rest of Europe ; that the Empire , Spain , and Italy looked up to his counsels as their ...
... Britain under the name of her deliverer from civil tyran- ny and religious persecution ; that he was considered in the same important light by the rest of Europe ; that the Empire , Spain , and Italy looked up to his counsels as their ...
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... Britain was steadily pursued . The volumes of Coxe afford ample opportunity to those who wish to study this part of the general subject , and two or three of the pamphlets he alludes to , will be found in all collections of pamphlets ...
... Britain was steadily pursued . The volumes of Coxe afford ample opportunity to those who wish to study this part of the general subject , and two or three of the pamphlets he alludes to , will be found in all collections of pamphlets ...
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... Britain , is a man of ability , not of genius ; good - natured , not virtuous ; constant , not magnani . mous ; moderate in the exercise of power , not equitable in the engrossing of it . His virtues in some instances are free from the ...
... Britain , is a man of ability , not of genius ; good - natured , not virtuous ; constant , not magnani . mous ; moderate in the exercise of power , not equitable in the engrossing of it . His virtues in some instances are free from the ...
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Seite 393 - 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.
Seite 394 - The more they multiply, the more friends you will have; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. 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.
Seite 484 - 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...
Seite 463 - And let me conjure you in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man, who wishes, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.
Seite 411 - ... 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?
Seite 366 - 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 186 - 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 393 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Seite 52 - And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects. 11. And excessive fines have been imposed ; and illegal and cruel punishments inflicted.
Seite 394 - 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.