Historical Memoirs Respecting the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics: From the Reformation, to the Present Time, Band 3John Murray, 1821 - 456 Seiten |
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... favoured courtier at Versailles , than the most commanding orator in St. Stephen's chapel . His dis- tressses threw him into politics ; he assumed the character of a staunch whig , and his consistency must be admitted by all . He ...
... favoured courtier at Versailles , than the most commanding orator in St. Stephen's chapel . His dis- tressses threw him into politics ; he assumed the character of a staunch whig , and his consistency must be admitted by all . He ...
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... favour of Mr. Burke : -this , among his countrymen , is a general opinion , but it is accompanied by no evidence . One argument only is adduced in support of his claim . Mr. Burke was equal to the composition of the letters of Junius ...
... favour of Mr. Burke : -this , among his countrymen , is a general opinion , but it is accompanied by no evidence . One argument only is adduced in support of his claim . Mr. Burke was equal to the composition of the letters of Junius ...
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... favour of sir Philip urge , as a strong circumstance in its support , that , without family , without patronage , without any one pretension to the notice of the king or the minister , he was suddenly raised , from an obscure seat in ...
... favour of sir Philip urge , as a strong circumstance in its support , that , without family , without patronage , without any one pretension to the notice of the king or the minister , he was suddenly raised , from an obscure seat in ...
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... favour of sir Philip Francis from external , and the arguments against him from internal evidence , and reconciles and gives activity to each . The expression attributed to lord North , in the letter transcribed by the writer , has been ...
... favour of sir Philip Francis from external , and the arguments against him from internal evidence , and reconciles and gives activity to each . The expression attributed to lord North , in the letter transcribed by the writer , has been ...
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... favour the public with a comparative view of their leading principles , and those of the law of England . Unfortunately , such a work can be expected from none but a person , who is at once con- versant with the principles , the theory ...
... favour the public with a comparative view of their leading principles , and those of the law of England . Unfortunately , such a work can be expected from none but a person , who is at once con- versant with the principles , the theory ...
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Seite xxxiii - ... every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest...
Seite 137 - An Act for [the] Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments...
Seite xxxii - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Seite xxxii - ... criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Seite xxxiii - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land.
Seite xxviii - I do not fear to meet it single and alone. No one venerates the peerage more than I do, — but, my lords, I must say that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more,— I can say and will say, that as a peer of parliament, — as speaker of this right...
Seite xxvii - I am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as...
Seite xxviii - ... keeper of the great seal, as guardian of his majesty's conscience, as lord high chancellor of England, nay, even in that character alone in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered...
Seite xxxiii - Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region.
Seite xxxii - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treat)- and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.