The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists, of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accession of Henry VIII. to the Present Time. Including a Complete History of England from that Area, Volumen8Charles Dilly, 1791 |
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... vote was paffed in the Common Council of the city of London : " Refolved , That the thanks of this court be given to the Right Hon . William Pitt , for for the many great and eminent fervices rendered this nation 6 WILLIAM PITT ,
... vote was paffed in the Common Council of the city of London : " Refolved , That the thanks of this court be given to the Right Hon . William Pitt , for for the many great and eminent fervices rendered this nation 6 WILLIAM PITT ,
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... Common Council of London , ( amidft the rage of an extenfive War ) for the public Accommodation , And Ornament of the City , ROBERT MYLNE being Architect . And , that there might remain to Posterity a Monument of this City's Affection ...
... Common Council of London , ( amidft the rage of an extenfive War ) for the public Accommodation , And Ornament of the City , ROBERT MYLNE being Architect . And , that there might remain to Posterity a Monument of this City's Affection ...
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... common phrafe in the mouth of the loweft orders of our citizens ; but property , my lords , is the sole and entire dominion of the owner ; it excludes all the world besides the owner . None can intermeddle with it . It is a unity ; a ...
... common phrafe in the mouth of the loweft orders of our citizens ; but property , my lords , is the sole and entire dominion of the owner ; it excludes all the world besides the owner . None can intermeddle with it . It is a unity ; a ...
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... common caufe . Ireland is with the Americans to a man . The Whigs of that country will , and those of this country ought , to think the American cause their own . They are allied to each other in fen- timent timent and intereft , united ...
... common caufe . Ireland is with the Americans to a man . The Whigs of that country will , and those of this country ought , to think the American cause their own . They are allied to each other in fen- timent timent and intereft , united ...
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... common caufe . 66 My lords , confiftent with the preceding doc- trines , and with what I have ever and fhall con- tinue to maintain , I fay , I fhall oppofe America whenever I fee her aiming at throwing off the navigation act , and ...
... common caufe . 66 My lords , confiftent with the preceding doc- trines , and with what I have ever and fhall con- tinue to maintain , I fay , I fhall oppofe America whenever I fee her aiming at throwing off the navigation act , and ...
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Página 118 - In smoky ruins sunk they lie. The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life.
Página 199 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work...
Página 102 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Página 37 - That God and nature put into our hands.' I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature ; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian...
Página 38 - Judges to interpose the purity of their ermine, to save us from this pollution. I call upon the honour of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution.
Página 25 - This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment ! It is not a time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot now avail; cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Página 66 - ... the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order: correct, nay stern in his taste; hard to please, and easily offended, impetuous and irritable in his temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart...
Página 97 - Thou great Infallible, forbear to roar, Thy bulls and errors are rever'd no more. When doctrines meet with gen'ral approbation, It is not Heresy, but Reformation.
Página 29 - 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!
Página 2 - Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.