The Life and Times of Charles James Fox, Svazek 1R. Bentley, 1859 |
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Strana 103
... arms against Great Britain . Washington and Franklin , Adams and Jefferson , spoke only of war . The British troops were cooped up in Boston , blockaded by an American army . Every other seaport was in the hands of the insurgents . It ...
... arms against Great Britain . Washington and Franklin , Adams and Jefferson , spoke only of war . The British troops were cooped up in Boston , blockaded by an American army . Every other seaport was in the hands of the insurgents . It ...
Strana 105
... arms , to bring discredit on the wisdom of his Majesty's councils , and to nourish , without hope of end , a most unhappy civil war . Deeply impressed with a sense of this melancholy state of the public concerns , we shall , on the ...
... arms , to bring discredit on the wisdom of his Majesty's councils , and to nourish , without hope of end , a most unhappy civil war . Deeply impressed with a sense of this melancholy state of the public concerns , we shall , on the ...
Strana 108
... arms of reason and of ridi- cule . He was seated on the Treasury bench , between his Attorney and Solicitor - General , the two pillars of law and State , magis pares quam similes , and the Minister might indulge in a short slumber ...
... arms of reason and of ridi- cule . He was seated on the Treasury bench , between his Attorney and Solicitor - General , the two pillars of law and State , magis pares quam similes , and the Minister might indulge in a short slumber ...
Strana 112
... arms in North America , as also into the causes of the disaffection of the people of the province of Quebec . " On this occasion I find the following outline of Mr. Fox's speech , which shows the line of argument he followed . After ...
... arms in North America , as also into the causes of the disaffection of the people of the province of Quebec . " On this occasion I find the following outline of Mr. Fox's speech , which shows the line of argument he followed . After ...
Strana 113
... plain that the cause of all the disgraces the British arms had suffered arose from ignorance in those who planned , and incapacity VOL . I. I and want of integrity in those to whom the carrying CHARLES JAMES FOX . 113.
... plain that the cause of all the disgraces the British arms had suffered arose from ignorance in those who planned , and incapacity VOL . I. I and want of integrity in those to whom the carrying CHARLES JAMES FOX . 113.
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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.