The History of England, المجلد 2A. J. Valpy, 1835 |
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الصفحة iii
... Measures regarding it -Adjournment - Expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain ; also from Naples , Sicily , and Parma - Origin of the measure - Danger and evils of the sudden abolition of the order - Affairs of Corsica- Parliament ...
... Measures regarding it -Adjournment - Expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain ; also from Naples , Sicily , and Parma - Origin of the measure - Danger and evils of the sudden abolition of the order - Affairs of Corsica- Parliament ...
الصفحة vii
... measures - Reflections on the subject , and the approaching contest - Bill for settling the administration of Canada - Debates thereon - Is passed - Law respecting copyright of books - Foreign events - Birth of prince Adolphus Frederic ...
... measures - Reflections on the subject , and the approaching contest - Bill for settling the administration of Canada - Debates thereon - Is passed - Law respecting copyright of books - Foreign events - Birth of prince Adolphus Frederic ...
الصفحة viii
... measures - Arrival of lord North's conciliatory propositions - Conduct of Pennsylvania and other states - Meeting of the general congress , and measures adopted - Reinforcements sent from England - General Gage's proclamation ...
... measures - Arrival of lord North's conciliatory propositions - Conduct of Pennsylvania and other states - Meeting of the general congress , and measures adopted - Reinforcements sent from England - General Gage's proclamation ...
الصفحة ix
... measures taken by general Carleton to expel them from his province - Failure of an attack on the British by general Thompson - Arnold's retreat to Crown Point , and command of lake Champlain - Pursued by the British under general ...
... measures taken by general Carleton to expel them from his province - Failure of an attack on the British by general Thompson - Arnold's retreat to Crown Point , and command of lake Champlain - Pursued by the British under general ...
الصفحة x
... measures in 1775 for the organisation of American diplomacy - Dr . Franklin , Arthur Lee , and M. Dumas - M . de Beaumarchais - Silas Deane's mission to France - Three commis- sioners sent in 1776 - Mr . Lee's mission to Spain ...
... measures in 1775 for the organisation of American diplomacy - Dr . Franklin , Arthur Lee , and M. Dumas - M . de Beaumarchais - Silas Deane's mission to France - Three commis- sioners sent in 1776 - Mr . Lee's mission to Spain ...
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الصفحة 192 - 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 honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
الصفحة 339 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
الصفحة 338 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
الصفحة 192 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
الصفحة 43 - Majesty's servants, at the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mr. Wilkes and at the expense of the Constitution...
الصفحة 190 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
الصفحة 191 - My idea, therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right or grant as matter of favor, is, to admit the people of our colonies into an interest in the Constitution, and, by recording that admission in the...
الصفحة 177 - Their situation is truly unworthy, penned up— pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army of impotence. You may call them an army of safety and of guard; but they are in truth an army of impotence and contempt; and, to make the folly equal to the disgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation.
الصفحة 134 - I know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies...
الصفحة 180 - A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.