The History of England, from the Accession of George III, 1760, to the Accession of Queen Victoria, 1837, Band 3G. Bell, 1846 |
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... Hastings - Close of the session - Margaret Nicholson's at- tempt on the life of the king - Commercial treaty with France- Convention with Spain - Dr . Seabury , bishop of Connecticut , consecrated at Aberdeen - Scottish episcopalians ...
... Hastings - Close of the session - Margaret Nicholson's at- tempt on the life of the king - Commercial treaty with France- Convention with Spain - Dr . Seabury , bishop of Connecticut , consecrated at Aberdeen - Scottish episcopalians ...
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... Hastings - Prorogation of parlia- ment - The royal family visit the southern coast - Return to Windsor , levees , & c . - State of affairs in the north of Europe , in the Netherlands , and in France CHAPTER XXXIII . 394 State of parties ...
... Hastings - Prorogation of parlia- ment - The royal family visit the southern coast - Return to Windsor , levees , & c . - State of affairs in the north of Europe , in the Netherlands , and in France CHAPTER XXXIII . 394 State of parties ...
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... his enterprise till reinforcements should arrive from New York . General Greene , the trusty friend of 14 Afterwards lord Moira , and marquis of Hastings . XXII . 1780 . CHAP . Washington , being appointed GEORGE III . 43.
... his enterprise till reinforcements should arrive from New York . General Greene , the trusty friend of 14 Afterwards lord Moira , and marquis of Hastings . XXII . 1780 . CHAP . Washington , being appointed GEORGE III . 43.
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... Hastings , and invested with independent powers : he carried with him 560 Euro- pean troops ; and a strong corps of sepoys was pre- pared to march along the coast as soon as the rainy season would permit : at the same time , Mr ...
... Hastings , and invested with independent powers : he carried with him 560 Euro- pean troops ; and a strong corps of sepoys was pre- pared to march along the coast as soon as the rainy season would permit : at the same time , Mr ...
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... Hastings , the Mahrattas had withdrawn from his alliance , and even bound themselves to gua- rantee the British territory , as it stood at the period of their last treaty ; while a strong detachment , sent to besiege Tellicherry , had ...
... Hastings , the Mahrattas had withdrawn from his alliance , and even bound themselves to gua- rantee the British territory , as it stood at the period of their last treaty ; while a strong detachment , sent to besiege Tellicherry , had ...
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Seite 191 - Called upon by your country to defend its invaded rights, you accepted the sacred charge, before it had formed alliances, and whilst it was without funds or a government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
Seite 189 - I cannot help fearing the result of the measure in contemplation, under present circumstances, when I see such a number of men, goaded by a thousand stings of reflection on the past and of anticipation on the future, about to be turned into the world, soured by penury and what they call the ingratitude of the public, involved in debts without one farthing of money to carry them home, after having spent the flower of their days, and many of them their patrimonies, in establishing the...
Seite 346 - ... disconnecting the authority to command service, from the power of animating it by reward; and for allotting to the prince all the invidious duties of government, without the means of softening them to the public, by any one act of grace, favour, or benignity.
Seite 420 - ... temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts ; — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the...
Seite 143 - ... to direct Mr. Grenville, that the independency of the thirteen Provinces should be proposed by him in the first instance, instead of making it a condition of a general treaty...
Seite 104 - I have received with sentiments of the deepest concern the communication which Lord George Germain has made me of the unfortunate result of the operations in Virginia. I particularly lament it on account of the consequences connected with it and the difficulties which it may produce in carrying on the public business or in repairing such a misfortune. But I trust that neither Lord George Germain nor any member of the Cabinet will suppose that it makes the smallest alteration in those principles of...
Seite 103 - to finish my career, however far advanced in years, were I first minister of France, before I had witnessed the termination of this great contest between England and America.
Seite 191 - Having defended the standard of liberty in this new world, having taught a lesson useful to those who inflict, and to those who feel oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens : but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command, — it will continue to animate remotest ages.
Seite 281 - To tell you the truth," replied Mr. Fox, " nor I neither. There is something in all these subjects that passes my comprehension — something so wide that I could never embrace them myself, or find any one who did.
Seite 217 - I trust the house of lords will this day feel, that the hour is come, for which the wisdom of our ancestors established that respectable corps in the state, to prevent either the crown or the commons from encroaching on the rights of each other.