A View of the History of Great Britain: During the Administration of Lord North, to the Second Session of the Fifteenth Parliament ... with Statements of the Public Expenditure in that Period, صفحة 2G. Wilkie, 1782 - 243 من الصفحات |
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... forming with fome degree of laborious research ) if the posture of public affairs did not appear to him to require the recent hiftory of this country to be related now ; that by an epitome of the important tranfactions in which this ...
... forming with fome degree of laborious research ) if the posture of public affairs did not appear to him to require the recent hiftory of this country to be related now ; that by an epitome of the important tranfactions in which this ...
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... formed with his fa- vereign † , procured him to be appointed in the year 1767 , a joint paymaster of the forces and chancellor of the ex- chequer , One of the firft acts of the new minifter , was the bring- ing in a bill for the repeal ...
... formed with his fa- vereign † , procured him to be appointed in the year 1767 , a joint paymaster of the forces and chancellor of the ex- chequer , One of the firft acts of the new minifter , was the bring- ing in a bill for the repeal ...
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... formed of internal taxation ; and in effecting this , an effential fer- vice was meant to be rendered to the Eaft India Company , who felt very fenfibly the diminution of their exports to America . In the year 1768 , they had exported ...
... formed of internal taxation ; and in effecting this , an effential fer- vice was meant to be rendered to the Eaft India Company , who felt very fenfibly the diminution of their exports to America . In the year 1768 , they had exported ...
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... forming a noble and comprehensive plan of policy . He reprefented him as coming with his dog's - eared statutes to a debate . Mr. Burke , fome few years after , alluding to this re- mark , made by the oracle of the fenate , talked of ...
... forming a noble and comprehensive plan of policy . He reprefented him as coming with his dog's - eared statutes to a debate . Mr. Burke , fome few years after , alluding to this re- mark , made by the oracle of the fenate , talked of ...
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... formed under the title of " The Supporters , of the Bill of Rights , " one principal object of which was to exonerate Mr. Wilkes from his debts . Soon after Mr. Beckford's death , violent diffentions broke out ; many of the members ...
... formed under the title of " The Supporters , of the Bill of Rights , " one principal object of which was to exonerate Mr. Wilkes from his debts . Soon after Mr. Beckford's death , violent diffentions broke out ; many of the members ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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الصفحة 196 - If then the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be, for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable ; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient ; what way yet remains ? No way is open, but the third and last — to comply with the American spirit as necessary ; or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil.
الصفحة 188 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.
الصفحة 156 - ... according to law and equity, and, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England...
الصفحة 306 - I mean that for a limitation of the claims of the crown upon landed estates ; and this for the relief of the Roman Catholics. By the former he has emancipated property ; by the latter he has quieted conscience : and by both, he has taught that grand lesson to government and subject — no longer to regard each other as adverse parties.
الصفحة 338 - ... but when that country professes the unnatural design not only of estranging herself from us, but of mortgaging herself and her resources to our enemies, the whole contest is changed ; and the question is, how far Great Britain may, by every means in her power, destroy or render useless a connection contrived for her ruin and for the aggrandizement of France.
الصفحة 248 - Her fondness for conquest, as a warlike nation, her lust of dominion, as an ambitious one, and her...
الصفحة 292 - Your efforts are for ever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely, for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling...
الصفحة 291 - France, my lords, has insulted you ; she has encouraged and sustained America ; and whether America be wrong or right, the dignity of this country ought to spurn at the officious insult of French interference. The ministers and...
الصفحة 111 - That all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, do of right belong to the State.
الصفحة 111 - State. 2. That to appropriate acquisitions so made to the private emolument of persons intrusted with any civil or military power of the State is illegal. 3. That very great sums of money, and other valuable property have been acquired in Bengal from Princes and others of that country, by persons...