Memoirs of the Reign of George III. to the Session of Parliament Ending A. D. 1793: I-IV |
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... entered upon without an avowed and definite object . Nothing analogous to it has taken place in our annals since the war against Holland in 1672 , the object of which was never avowed , though well known to be the subversion of the ...
... entered upon without an avowed and definite object . Nothing analogous to it has taken place in our annals since the war against Holland in 1672 , the object of which was never avowed , though well known to be the subversion of the ...
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... from his majesty's ministers . Fifthly , That it is the duty of his majesty's ministers , in the present crisis , to advise his XIX . majesty against entering into engagements BOOK which may 28 HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN .
... from his majesty's ministers . Fifthly , That it is the duty of his majesty's ministers , in the present crisis , to advise his XIX . majesty against entering into engagements BOOK which may 28 HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN .
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I-IV William Belsham. XIX . majesty against entering into engagements BOOK which may prevent Great Britain from making à separate peace whenever the interests of his 1793 . majesty and his people may render such a mea- sure advisable ...
I-IV William Belsham. XIX . majesty against entering into engagements BOOK which may prevent Great Britain from making à separate peace whenever the interests of his 1793 . majesty and his people may render such a mea- sure advisable ...
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... entered the tersHolland . Dutch territory on the 17th of February . On the 24th Breda surrendered , through the cowardice or treachery of its governor , count Byland , almost on the first summons . The fort of Klundert was taken , after ...
... entered the tersHolland . Dutch territory on the 17th of February . On the 24th Breda surrendered , through the cowardice or treachery of its governor , count Byland , almost on the first summons . The fort of Klundert was taken , after ...
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... entering your states in Europe , or your colonies , all those members of the pre- tended National Convention , or of the pre- * It is true that count Staremberg , the Imperial ambassador at the Hague , also signed the memorial ; but ...
... entering your states in Europe , or your colonies , all those members of the pre- tended National Convention , or of the pre- * It is true that count Staremberg , the Imperial ambassador at the Hague , also signed the memorial ; but ...
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Page 284 - of LAW there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, — the very least, as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 115 - THAT they shall stop and detain all ships laden with goods, the produce of any colony belonging to France, or carrying provisions or other supplies for the use of any such colony, and shall bring the same, with their cargoes, to legal adjudication in our courts of admiralty.
Page 71 - Majesty's subjects from their oath of allegiance, upon any pretext whatsoever ? 3. Is there any principle in the tenets of the Catholic Faith, by which Catholics are justified in not keeping faith with heretics, or other persons differing from them in religious opinions, in any transaction, either of a public or a private nature...
Page 265 - The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion, that, contrary to the order of human events, they will, forever, keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.
Page 59 - Your Petitioners complain, that the elective franchise is so partially and unequally distributed, and is in so many instances committed to bodies of men of such very limited numbers, that the majority of your honourable House is elected by less than fifteen thousand electors, which, even if the male adults in the kingdom be estimated at so low a number as three millions, is not more than the two hundredth part of the people to be represented.
Page 254 - Asia, which has ever been esteemed the nurse of sciences, the inventress of delightful and useful arts, the scene of glorious actions, fertile in the productions of human genius, abounding in natural wonders, and infinitely diversified in the forms of religion and government, in the laws, manners, customs, and languages, as well as in the features and complexions of men.
Page 105 - In one country, and that the centre of Christendom, revelation underwent a total eclipse ; while atheism, performing on a darkened theatre its strange and fearful tragedy, confounded the first elements of society, blended every age, rank, and sex, in indiscriminate proscription and massacre, and convulsed all Europe to its centre ; that the imperishable memorial of these events might teach...
Page 265 - If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for war.
Page 232 - ... peculiar transaction of the prisoners, but of immense bodies of the King's subjects in various parts of the kingdom, assembled without the smallest reserve, and giving to the public, through the channel of the daily newspapers, a minute and regular journal of their whole proceedings.
Page 245 - This man, of masculine mind, though disgusted at the disorder which Lord George Gordon created, felt a triumph in his acquittal, and exclaimed, as we learn from Mr. Boswell, " I hate Lord G. Gordon, but I am glad he was not convicted of this constructive treason; for, though I hate him, I love my country and myself.