The Life and Times of Charles James Fox, Svazek 1R. Bentley, 1859 |
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... French Revolution , and the French Revolutionary Wars , deserve to be studied in all their different aspects . They are the great elevations from which the streams of modern history must flow towards the ocean of time . I have ventured ...
... French Revolution , and the French Revolutionary Wars , deserve to be studied in all their different aspects . They are the great elevations from which the streams of modern history must flow towards the ocean of time . I have ventured ...
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... FRENCH AND SPANISH FLEET SCOUR ENGLISH CHANNEL -RESIGNATION OF LORD GOWER . 193 THE . 200 CHAPTER XIII . RISING SPIRIT OF OPPOSITION TO LORD NORTH - PETITIONS FOR - REFORM — MR . BURKE'S SPEECH ON ECONOMICAL REFORM MR . DUNNING'S ...
... FRENCH AND SPANISH FLEET SCOUR ENGLISH CHANNEL -RESIGNATION OF LORD GOWER . 193 THE . 200 CHAPTER XIII . RISING SPIRIT OF OPPOSITION TO LORD NORTH - PETITIONS FOR - REFORM — MR . BURKE'S SPEECH ON ECONOMICAL REFORM MR . DUNNING'S ...
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... That this education enabled Mr. Fox to read the Greek and Latin poets with facility , to make himself familiar with " Correspondence , " vol . i . p . 22 . French and Italian literature , and to become very early CHARLES JAMES FOX . 7.
... That this education enabled Mr. Fox to read the Greek and Latin poets with facility , to make himself familiar with " Correspondence , " vol . i . p . 22 . French and Italian literature , and to become very early CHARLES JAMES FOX . 7.
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Earl John Russell Russell. French and Italian literature , and to become very early a man of the world , cannot be disputed . But , on the other hand , it led to desultory habits of study , and , what was much worse , to a fondness for ...
Earl John Russell Russell. French and Italian literature , and to become very early a man of the world , cannot be disputed . But , on the other hand , it led to desultory habits of study , and , what was much worse , to a fondness for ...
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... French , I am far from being so thorough a master of it as I could wish , but I have so much of it that I could perfect myself in it at any time with very little trouble , especially if I pass three or four months in France . I want ...
... French , I am far from being so thorough a master of it as I could wish , but I have so much of it that I could perfect myself in it at any time with very little trouble , especially if I pass three or four months in France . I want ...
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Strana 89 - My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Strana 89 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sous of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Strana 229 - Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Strana 119 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Strana 77 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts: they must be repealed; you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it; I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
Strana 122 - ... effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain: that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with tliem: but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution...
Strana 123 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain...
Strana 49 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Strana 74 - The spirit which now resists your taxation in America is the same which formerly opposed loans, benevolences, and ship-money in England, — the same spirit which called all England on its legs, and by the Bill of Rights vindicated the English constitution; the same spirit which established the great, fundamental, essential maxim of your liberties, that no subject of England shall be taxed but by his own consent.
Strana 48 - Great Britain give and grant to your majesty, what ? Our own property ? No. We give and grant to your majesty, the property of your majesty's commons of America.