The Pictorial History of England During the Reign of George the Third: Being a History of the People, as Well as a History of the Kingdom, Illustrated with Several Hundred WoodcutsC. Knight, 1841 - Great Britain |
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... House of Lords ; and Mr. Fox , Pitt's old rival , who had gladly remained in his lucrative place of paymaster of the forces , led in the House of Commons . The prime minister gave a full detail of the negoti- ations , and concluded his ...
... House of Lords ; and Mr. Fox , Pitt's old rival , who had gladly remained in his lucrative place of paymaster of the forces , led in the House of Commons . The prime minister gave a full detail of the negoti- ations , and concluded his ...
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... House of Commons ; and the House , by a majority of 237 against 111 , resolved that the paper entitled " The North Briton , No. 45 , " was a false , scandalous , and seditious libel , and that the said paper should be burned by the ...
... House of Commons ; and the House , by a majority of 237 against 111 , resolved that the paper entitled " The North Briton , No. 45 , " was a false , scandalous , and seditious libel , and that the said paper should be burned by the ...
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... House he wrote a note to Martin , and a meeting in Hyde Park on the ... Commons two whole days . Mr. Wilbraham , member for Newton , in Lancashire ... house . By this time the moon had risen and was shining very brightly , and by fair ...
... House he wrote a note to Martin , and a meeting in Hyde Park on the ... Commons two whole days . Mr. Wilbraham , member for Newton , in Lancashire ... house . By this time the moon had risen and was shining very brightly , and by fair ...
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... House of Commons . He denied the existence of any precedent to show that the inviolability liament extended to the case of seditious libels : he insisted on the dangerous tendency of publications calculated to revive hostile feelings ...
... House of Commons . He denied the existence of any precedent to show that the inviolability liament extended to the case of seditious libels : he insisted on the dangerous tendency of publications calculated to revive hostile feelings ...
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... house and asked to see him . Being refused admittance , Dun went to a coffee ... Commons , who presently voted that the man was only insane , and should be ... House , was to appear at the bar of the Commons , Dr. Brocklesby , an eminent ...
... house and asked to see him . Being refused admittance , Dun went to a coffee ... Commons , who presently voted that the man was only insane , and should be ... House , was to appear at the bar of the Commons , Dr. Brocklesby , an eminent ...
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Page 48 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure...
Page 191 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS.
Page 211 - I propose, by removing the ground of the difference, and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country, to give permanent satisfaction to your people; and (far from a scheme of ruling by discord) to reconcile them to each other in the same act, and by the bond of the very same interest which reconciles them to British government.
Page 211 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented from principle in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of...
Page 212 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks amongst them like something that is more noble and liberal.
Page 354 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets.
Page 327 - it was perfectly justifiable to use all the means that God and nature put into our hands!" I AM ASTONISHED ! — shocked ! to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this House, or in this country ; principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman, and unchristian ! My lords, I did not intend to have encroached again upon your attention; but I cannot repress my indignation.
Page 212 - Who are you that should fret and rage and bite the chains of nature? Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire; and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown.
Page 211 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is (let me say) of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Page 68 - On the 17th, it was resolved, that John Wilkes, Esq. having been in this session of parliament expelled the House, was, and is, incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.