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... Spain [ 1809 ] Convention of Cintra [ Aug. 1810 ] 56 57 58 Sir John Moore's Expedition and Retreat - Battle of Corunna [ Dec. 1809 ] 58 Treaty of Alliance between England and Spain 59 Campaign of Wagram [ July , 1810 ] —Austria's Price ...
... Spain [ 1809 ] Convention of Cintra [ Aug. 1810 ] 56 57 58 Sir John Moore's Expedition and Retreat - Battle of Corunna [ Dec. 1809 ] 58 Treaty of Alliance between England and Spain 59 Campaign of Wagram [ July , 1810 ] —Austria's Price ...
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... Spain by a French Army [ Jan. 1823 ] Canning's Speech at Plymouth Necessity of Peace to England - Recognition of the Independence of 144 146 147 147 · the Spanish Colonies [ 1824 ] . Retrospect of the Struggle 148 149 The Alien Act ...
... Spain by a French Army [ Jan. 1823 ] Canning's Speech at Plymouth Necessity of Peace to England - Recognition of the Independence of 144 146 147 147 · the Spanish Colonies [ 1824 ] . Retrospect of the Struggle 148 149 The Alien Act ...
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... Spain 239 240 CHAPTER III . The first Reformed Parliament [ 1833 ] -the Work that lay before it Lord Althorp , the Whig Financier 241 · 242 · Ireland , O'Connell , and the Irish Church 243 • · The " Appropriation Clause " —Secession of ...
... Spain 239 240 CHAPTER III . The first Reformed Parliament [ 1833 ] -the Work that lay before it Lord Althorp , the Whig Financier 241 · 242 · Ireland , O'Connell , and the Irish Church 243 • · The " Appropriation Clause " —Secession of ...
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... Spain · Queen of Portugal and her Ministers - Danish Constitution - Prussia and the Zollverein - the Emperors and " Young Germany " -the Zillerthal Protestants - Independence of Cracow violated - Turkey and Circassia CHAPTER VI . 272 ...
... Spain · Queen of Portugal and her Ministers - Danish Constitution - Prussia and the Zollverein - the Emperors and " Young Germany " -the Zillerthal Protestants - Independence of Cracow violated - Turkey and Circassia CHAPTER VI . 272 ...
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... Spain was next intimidated into peace and alliance . No sooner had the armies of the Republic under Jourdan and Moreau received a check , than it was more than compensated by the brilliant and rapid Italian victories of Bonaparte ...
... Spain was next intimidated into peace and alliance . No sooner had the armies of the Republic under Jourdan and Moreau received a check , than it was more than compensated by the brilliant and rapid Italian victories of Bonaparte ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 146 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Página 146 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
Página 298 - And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
Página 180 - His Majesty recommends that, when this essential object shall have been accomplished, you should take into your deliberate consideration the whole condition of Ireland, and that you should review the laws which impose Civil disabilities on his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects.
Página 20 - One asylum of free discussion is still inviolate. There is still one spot in Europe where man can freely exercise his reason on the most important concerns of society, where he can boldly publish his judgment on the acts of the proudest and most powerful tyrants. The press of England is still free. It is guarded by the free constitution of our forefathers, It is guarded by the hearts and arms of Englishmen, and I trust I may venture to say, that if it be to fall, it will fall only under the ruins...
Página 28 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Página 100 - At this time the writings of William Cobbett suddenly became of great authority ; they were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing districts of South Lancashire, in those of Leicester, Derby, and Nottingham ; also in many of the Scottish manufacturing towns. Their influence was speedily visible ; he directed his readers to the true cause of their sufferings — misgovernment ; and to its proper corrective — parliamentary reform.
Página 152 - Let us fly to the aid of Portugal, by whomsoever attacked; because it is our duty to do so: and let us cease our interference where that duty ends. We go to Portugal not to rule, not to dictate, not to pre'scribe constitutions — but to defend and to preserve the independence of an ally. We go to plant the standard of England on the well-known heights of Lisbon. Where that standard is planted, foreign dominion shall not come.
Página 115 - It is but a few nights ago, that, while I was standing at the bar of the House of Commons, a young man, the brother of a peer, whose name is not worth setting down, came up to me, and breathing in my face the nauseous fumes of his undigested debauch, stammered out : " I am against your bill; I am for hanging all.
Página 189 - That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned.