The history of England, from the accession of George iii to 1783, Volume 31810 |
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... lords , ib . - Amendment moved by lord Chatham , 3 . -Incidental debate on the employment of favages in war , 9.- The meafure defended by lord Suffolk , 10. - Animated Speech of lord Chatham , ib . - Amendment rejected , 12. - Debate on ...
... lords , ib . - Amendment moved by lord Chatham , 3 . -Incidental debate on the employment of favages in war , 9.- The meafure defended by lord Suffolk , 10. - Animated Speech of lord Chatham , ib . - Amendment rejected , 12. - Debate on ...
Página iv
... lords , 78 . Honours paid to his memory by the common council of London , ib . - Lord Chatham's funeral , 79. - Adjournment of parliament , 80. - Speech from the throne , ib . CHAP . XXXIV . 1778 , --- Expeditions from Philadelphia ...
... lords , 78 . Honours paid to his memory by the common council of London , ib . - Lord Chatham's funeral , 79. - Adjournment of parliament , 80. - Speech from the throne , ib . CHAP . XXXIV . 1778 , --- Expeditions from Philadelphia ...
Página vii
... Lord George Gordon elected prefident of the proteftant affocia- tions , ib . - Effects of debating focieties , ib . - Intemperance of lord George Gordon , 239 .-- Petitions to parliament against the catholics , 240. - London petition ...
... Lord George Gordon elected prefident of the proteftant affocia- tions , ib . - Effects of debating focieties , ib . - Intemperance of lord George Gordon , 239 .-- Petitions to parliament against the catholics , 240. - London petition ...
Página ix
... Lord Cornwallis ftations himself at York and Gloucester , ib . - Arrival of the French , ib . - and English fleets , ib . - Partial action , 347.- Arnold's expedition to New London , ib . - York town invefled , ib . - Progress of the ...
... Lord Cornwallis ftations himself at York and Gloucester , ib . - Arrival of the French , ib . - and English fleets , ib . - Partial action , 347.- Arnold's expedition to New London , ib . - York town invefled , ib . - Progress of the ...
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John Adolphus. THE HISTORY OF ENGL A A N D. GEORGE THE THIRD . CHAPTER THE THIRTY - SECOND : 1777-1778 . Meeting of parliament . - Debates on the addrefs in the house of lords - Amendment moved by lord ... lord Suffolk . - Animated Speech of ...
John Adolphus. THE HISTORY OF ENGL A A N D. GEORGE THE THIRD . CHAPTER THE THIRTY - SECOND : 1777-1778 . Meeting of parliament . - Debates on the addrefs in the house of lords - Amendment moved by lord ... lord Suffolk . - Animated Speech of ...
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Página 5 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Página 11 - Against your Protestant brethren ; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hellhounds, I say, of savage war.
Página 462 - I make it my humble and earnest prayer to Almighty God that Great Britain may not feel the evils which might result from so great a dismemberment of the empire; and that America may be free from those calamities which have formerly proved in the mother country how essential monarchy is to the enjoyment of constitutional liberty.
Página 11 - ... ermine, to save us from this pollution. I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution.
Página 10 - My lords, we are called upon as members of this house, as men, as Christian men, to protest against such notions standing near the throne, polluting the ear of majesty. ' That God and nature put into our hands.
Página 204 - Master of the Household; the whole Board of Green Cloth; — and a vast number of subordinate offices in the department of the Steward of the Household; — the whole establishment of the Great Wardrobe; — the Removing Wardrobe;— the Jewel Office; — The Robes; the Board of Works; almost the whole charge of the civil branch of the Board of Ordnance are taken away.
Página 199 - When I look, as I have pretty carefully looked, into the proceedings of the French King, I am sorry to say it, I see nothing of the character and genius of arbitrary finance, none of the bold frauds of bankrupt power, none of the wild struggles and plunges of despotism in distress, — no lopping off from the capital of debt, no suspension of interest, no robbery under the name of loan, no raising the value, no debasing the substance, of the coin. I see neither Louis the Fourteenth nor Louis the...
Página 10 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation. I call upon that right reverend bench, those holy ministers of the Gospel, and pious pastors of our church; I conjure them to join in the holy work, and vindicate the religion of their God.
Página 407 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Página 242 - That, for his part, he would run all hazards with the people ; and if the people were too luke-warm to run all hazards with him, when their conscience and their country called them forth, they might get another President...