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... Peace of Vienna 78 The Gin - Act 78 The Stuarts The Porteous Riots 79 Hanoverian Troops in English Pay Projected Descent on the British Coasts . 109 109 . 110 Parliamentary Proceedings on these Riots 83 Battle of Dettingen 110 ...
... Peace of Vienna 78 The Gin - Act 78 The Stuarts The Porteous Riots 79 Hanoverian Troops in English Pay Projected Descent on the British Coasts . 109 109 . 110 Parliamentary Proceedings on these Riots 83 Battle of Dettingen 110 ...
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... Peace of Aix - la - Chapelle The House in which Charles Edward lodged at Derby 181 Charles Edward sent out of France . 181 137 Carlisle Castle . Military Costume . Temp . George II . ( Selected from Hogarth's March to Finchley ...
... Peace of Aix - la - Chapelle The House in which Charles Edward lodged at Derby 181 Charles Edward sent out of France . 181 137 Carlisle Castle . Military Costume . Temp . George II . ( Selected from Hogarth's March to Finchley ...
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... Peace signed . 284 They quit Office The Peace of Paris 284 Pitt created Earl of Chatham Conclusion of the Seven Years ' War 285 The Cost of the War , and its Uses His Loss of Popularity 285 His Plans for great Measures 285 Embargo on ...
... Peace signed . 284 They quit Office The Peace of Paris 284 Pitt created Earl of Chatham Conclusion of the Seven Years ' War 285 The Cost of the War , and its Uses His Loss of Popularity 285 His Plans for great Measures 285 Embargo on ...
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... Peace signed between Great Britain and United States With France and Spain · Parliamentary Censures of the terms of Peace Lord Shelburne , being defeated , resigns The King and the American Minister Washington's farewell to his Army He ...
... Peace signed between Great Britain and United States With France and Spain · Parliamentary Censures of the terms of Peace Lord Shelburne , being defeated , resigns The King and the American Minister Washington's farewell to his Army He ...
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... peace . It was the 18th of Sep- tember when George , accompanied by his eldest son , landed at Greenwich . That the new king should have been received with acclamations when he set his foot on English soil was a matter of course . But ...
... peace . It was the 18th of Sep- tember when George , accompanied by his eldest son , landed at Greenwich . That the new king should have been received with acclamations when he set his foot on English soil was a matter of course . But ...
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Page 341 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 382 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Page 367 - 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.
Page 462 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Page 444 - Upon the whole, there was in this man something that could create, subvert, or reform ; an understanding, a spirit, and an eloquence, to summon mankind to society, or to break the bonds of slavery asunder, and to rule the wilderness of free minds with unbounded authority ; something that could establish or overwhelm empire, and strike a blow in the world that should resound through the universe.
Page 278 - I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Page 345 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle rather than a formed body...
Page 447 - I am now to address a free people : ages have passed away, and this is the first moment in which you could be distinguished by that appellation.
Page 299 - Power without right is the most odious and detestable object that can be offered to the human imagination. It is not only pernicious to those who are subject to it, but tends to its own destruction. It is what my noble friend (Lord Lyttleton) has truly described it,
Page 383 - I am now convinced beyond a doubt, that, unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place in that line, this army must inevitably be reduced to one or other of these three things ; starve, dissolve, or disperse in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can.