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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... thing that can be an impediment to his expensive profligacy . - The subject , then , of the second part of the reign , the era which succeeded the disgrace of Clarendon , is the corruption of Charles , his connexion with Louis the ...
... thing that can be an impediment to his expensive profligacy . - The subject , then , of the second part of the reign , the era which succeeded the disgrace of Clarendon , is the corruption of Charles , his connexion with Louis the ...
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... thing which he can desire to know on this subject , and the sum and substance of every thing that there is to be known . " Louis , " says Voltaire , writing this long before the publica- tion of Dalrymple's History , which I shall ...
... thing which he can desire to know on this subject , and the sum and substance of every thing that there is to be known . " Louis , " says Voltaire , writing this long before the publica- tion of Dalrymple's History , which I shall ...
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... thing connected with royalty , it was supposed , would have been fatalto the possessor . The narrative is still safe , and is in the possession of Dr. Cameron , of Edinburgh . Since I wrote the last paragraph , another copy of the nar ...
... thing connected with royalty , it was supposed , would have been fatalto the possessor . The narrative is still safe , and is in the possession of Dr. Cameron , of Edinburgh . Since I wrote the last paragraph , another copy of the nar ...
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... thing that was an impediment to his own vicious indulgences ; so he was sincerely desirous to be ar- bitrary , that he might have money without either the trouble of asking for it , or the inconvenience of accounting for it . Depending ...
... thing that was an impediment to his own vicious indulgences ; so he was sincerely desirous to be ar- bitrary , that he might have money without either the trouble of asking for it , or the inconvenience of accounting for it . Depending ...
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... thing for the court that they could wish , as far as the Dutch war was concerned ( having made a speech in his character of chancellor , with which he was reproached to his last hour , ) still , when the whole cause in which he had so ...
... thing for the court that they could wish , as far as the Dutch war was concerned ( having made a speech in his character of chancellor , with which he was reproached to his last hour , ) still , when the whole cause in which he had so ...
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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 395 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
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 386 - How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?
Seite 393 - England worship freedom they will turn their faces towards you. 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.
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 368 - 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 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.