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... Britain discontent was only too manifest . We may not accept all the gloomy testimony of the memoir and letter - writers , the preachers and tractarians of the time , but a case is , nevertheless , clearly established . Religion had ...
... Britain discontent was only too manifest . We may not accept all the gloomy testimony of the memoir and letter - writers , the preachers and tractarians of the time , but a case is , nevertheless , clearly established . Religion had ...
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... Britain . England might not be jealous of her neighbours or of her virtue , but as the “ pre- dominant partner " she was jealous of her hegemony . It is fit thus to emphasise the state of the time in order that we may have a background ...
... Britain . England might not be jealous of her neighbours or of her virtue , but as the “ pre- dominant partner " she was jealous of her hegemony . It is fit thus to emphasise the state of the time in order that we may have a background ...
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... Britain had , as we shall see , great reason to congratulate herself that the early youth of her monarch was un- spotted from the world , and that amidst the levity and corruption of the times George III . was neither light nor corrupt ...
... Britain had , as we shall see , great reason to congratulate herself that the early youth of her monarch was un- spotted from the world , and that amidst the levity and corruption of the times George III . was neither light nor corrupt ...
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... Britain was as rich in genius , in intelligence , in courage and manliness , as was South Britain . He patronised Hume , Smollett , Home , Macpherson . Yet there was nothing narrow- minded about Bute . He also loved and honoured England ...
... Britain was as rich in genius , in intelligence , in courage and manliness , as was South Britain . He patronised Hume , Smollett , Home , Macpherson . Yet there was nothing narrow- minded about Bute . He also loved and honoured England ...
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... Britain would be an oligarchy , open and avowed . The vast body of Britons were still ready to exclaim , with Oliver Goldsmith , " I am then for , and would die for monarchy , sacred monarchy ; for if there be anything sacred amongst ...
... Britain would be an oligarchy , open and avowed . The vast body of Britons were still ready to exclaim , with Oliver Goldsmith , " I am then for , and would die for monarchy , sacred monarchy ; for if there be anything sacred amongst ...
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Page 408 - I shall esteem myself the happiest of men, if I can be instrumental in recommending my country more and more to your majesty's royal benevolence, and of restoring an entire esteem, confidence, and affection, or in better words, 'the old good nature, and the old good humour,' between people who, though separated by an ocean, and under different governments, have the same language, a similar religion, and kindred blood.
Page 408 - I did or could express — that touched him, I cannot say, but he was much affected, and answered me with more tremor than I had spoken with, and said : — " ' SIR, — The circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary, the language you have now held is so extremely proper, and the feelings you have discovered...
Page 275 - Had our Creator been pleased to give us existence in a land of slavery, the sense of our condition might have been mitigated by ignorance and habit. But, thanks be to his adorable goodness, we were born the heirs of freedom...
Page 321 - I will only add, to put before your eyes my most inmost thoughts, that no advantage to my country nor personal danger to myself can make me address myself to Lord Chatham, or to any other branch of opposition. Honestly, I would rather lose the crown I now wear, than bear the ignominy of possessing it under their shackles.
Page 384 - His bristly, black person, and shagged breast, quite open and rarely purified by any ablutions, was wrapped in a foul linen night-gown, and his bushy hair dishevelled.* In these Cynic weeds, and with Epicurean good humour, did he dictate his politics, and in this school did the heir of the crown attend his lessons and imbibe them.
Page 263 - If the gentleman does not understand the difference between external and internal taxes I cannot help it ; but there is a plain distinction between taxes levied for the purposes of raising a revenue and duties imposed for the regulation of trade, for the accommodation of the subject; although in the consequences some revenue might incidentally arise from the latter.
Page 381 - I trust you will be steady in your attachment to me, and ready to join other honest men in watching the conduct of this unnatural combination — and I hope many months will not elapse before the Grenvilles, the Pitts, and other men of abilities and character will relieve me from a situation that nothing could have compelled me to submit to, but the supposition that no other means remained of preventing the public finances from being materially affected.
Page 361 - At last the fatal day has come which the misfortunes of the times and the sudden change of sentiments of the House of Commons have drove me to of changing the Ministry, and a more general removal of other persons than I believe ever was known before. I have to the last fought for individuals, but the number I have saved, except my Bedchamber, is incredibly few.
Page 403 - I have been several evenings at the Queen's Lodge, with no other company but their own most lovely family. They sit round a large table, on which are books, work, pencils, and paper. The Queen has the goodness to make me sit down next to her ; and delights me with her conversation, which is informing, elegant, and pleasing, beyond description ; whilst the younger part of the family are drawing and working, &c. &c., the beautiful babe, Princess Amelia, bearing her part in the entertainment ; sometimes...
Page 409 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.