Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: And of the Principal Events of His Time, Том 2Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1810 |
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... possessed with a notion , that the mini ters had sent for him , on purpose to embar rass his affairs , and that it would take time to dis- abuse the royal ear . I immediately made enquiry after the truth of this assertion , and found it ...
... possessed with a notion , that the mini ters had sent for him , on purpose to embar rass his affairs , and that it would take time to dis- abuse the royal ear . I immediately made enquiry after the truth of this assertion , and found it ...
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... possession of it . This was an unprecedented kind of purchase . The French might , with the same propriety , have purchased the Spanish claim to the Netherlands , or Jamaica . This addition to the French monarchy alarmed the courts of ...
... possession of it . This was an unprecedented kind of purchase . The French might , with the same propriety , have purchased the Spanish claim to the Netherlands , or Jamaica . This addition to the French monarchy alarmed the courts of ...
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... possessed of certain rights which the laws have given him , and which the laws alone can take from him . I am neither moved by his private vices , nor by his public merits . In his person , though he were the worst of men , I contend ...
... possessed of certain rights which the laws have given him , and which the laws alone can take from him . I am neither moved by his private vices , nor by his public merits . In his person , though he were the worst of men , I contend ...
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... possession had been considered . But , if these had been weaker than they were , he thought some respect was due to the memory of the great Prince by whom these grants had been made ; and , in common justice to the noble Duke * ; whose ...
... possession had been considered . But , if these had been weaker than they were , he thought some respect was due to the memory of the great Prince by whom these grants had been made ; and , in common justice to the noble Duke * ; whose ...
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... possessions ; and that , for the advantage and maintenance of the peace in general , for the tranquillity of Italy in particular , all things should remain there in the condition they were in before the war , " VOL . II . I His Lordship ...
... possessions ; and that , for the advantage and maintenance of the peace in general , for the tranquillity of Italy in particular , all things should remain there in the condition they were in before the war , " VOL . II . I His Lordship ...
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Страница 269 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.
Страница 314 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country.
Страница 302 - 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...
Страница 275 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Страница 303 - ... of the woods — to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment : unless thoroughly done away, it will be a stain on the national character.
Страница 268 - ... to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. Avoid, then, this humiliating, disgraceful necessity. With a dignity becoming your exalted situation, make the first advances to concord, to peace, and happiness; for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede, is obvious, from sound and rational policy. Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power. It reconciles superiority of power with the feelings...
Страница 268 - 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.
Страница 302 - You may swell every expence, and every effort, still more extravagantly ; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German Prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign Prince ; your efforts are forever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which...
Страница 240 - Robert had heard them all he assured them that he was conscious of having meant well ; that in the present inflamed temper of the people the act could not be carried into execution without an armed force...
Страница 316 - Spanish cruelty : we turn loose these savage hell-hounds against our brethren and countrymen in America, of the same language, laws, liberties, and religion ; endeared to us by every tie that should sanctify humanity.