a compendious view of universal history |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 80
Página iii
... Proceedings respecting lord Clive . - The aspect of affairs in America is daily more serious . -Several acts to punish and restrain the Bostonians and other revolters.- Wedderburne incenses doctor Franklin , agent for the Americans , by ...
... Proceedings respecting lord Clive . - The aspect of affairs in America is daily more serious . -Several acts to punish and restrain the Bostonians and other revolters.- Wedderburne incenses doctor Franklin , agent for the Americans , by ...
Página iv
... proceedings relative to Ireland . - Events in the West Indies.- Events in South Carolina . - Events in Connecticut , & c . - Events in Massa- chusets Bay . - Naval events on the American coast , in conjunction with the land forces . -Mr ...
... proceedings relative to Ireland . - Events in the West Indies.- Events in South Carolina . - Events in Connecticut , & c . - Events in Massa- chusets Bay . - Naval events on the American coast , in conjunction with the land forces . -Mr ...
Página v
... Proceedings of the delegates of the volunteer corps at Dungannon and Dublin . - Consequent acts of the parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland - inadequate to the purpose of quieting the Irish nation . 1770.- HOLLAND . -A RUPTURE ...
... Proceedings of the delegates of the volunteer corps at Dungannon and Dublin . - Consequent acts of the parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland - inadequate to the purpose of quieting the Irish nation . 1770.- HOLLAND . -A RUPTURE ...
Página vi
... PROCEEDINGS in Bretagne in favour of de Chalotais . - Proceedings against d'Aiguillon stopped by the king . - Marriage of the Dauphin . Choiseul's enemies avail themselves of his warlike councils to effect their ends . -Chancellor ...
... PROCEEDINGS in Bretagne in favour of de Chalotais . - Proceedings against d'Aiguillon stopped by the king . - Marriage of the Dauphin . Choiseul's enemies avail themselves of his warlike councils to effect their ends . -Chancellor ...
Página xiv
... Proceedings respecting this affair . -The Poles are completely subdued . - Proceedings of the diet . - The king's con- duct . - Conduct of the guarantees of the treaty of Oliva . -The spirit of liberty still exists . - New constitution ...
... Proceedings respecting this affair . -The Poles are completely subdued . - Proceedings of the diet . - The king's con- duct . - Conduct of the guarantees of the treaty of Oliva . -The spirit of liberty still exists . - New constitution ...
Contenido
3 | |
9 | |
12 | |
19 | |
21 | |
26 | |
29 | |
32 | |
137 | |
150 | |
153 | |
172 | |
200 | |
218 | |
280 | |
287 | |
47 | |
52 | |
59 | |
60 | |
66 | |
70 | |
91 | |
101 | |
102 | |
106 | |
294 | |
322 | |
332 | |
340 | |
369 | |
418 | |
447 | |
451 | |
481 | |
506 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
adopted affairs afforded alliance American Annual Register appeared appointed army attack attention Austrian Britain British brought campaign Catharine cause chief circumstances colonel colonies commanded commerce conduct consequence contest council count Kaunitz court crown Danube declared desire dispatched disposition distress dominions Doula duke duke d'Aiguillon Dumouriez effect emperor employed empress enemy engaged ensued enterprise expedient expence favour fleet force France French governor grand honour hostilities house of Bourbon Hyder Ali Idem India interests island king kingdom late lord lord Cornwallis majesty's Maratta Massachusets mean-time measures ment merits military minister Moldavia monarch nation object occasion officers opposed parliament partisans partition of Poland party peace persons Poland Porte possession present prince principles proceedings provinces Prussian majesty Ramsay rendered respecting restored revenue Rohillas Russian sentiments ships soon sovereign spirit Stedman subjects success tion trade transactions treaty troops Turgot Turkish Turks Walachia warlike whilst
Pasajes populares
Página 230 - ... that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved...
Página 193 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Página 186 - 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.
Página 150 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them, in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Página 7 - Permit me, sire, further to observe, that whoever has already dared, or shall hereafter endeavour, by false insinuations and suggestions, to alienate your Majesty's affections from your loyal subjects in general, and from the City of London in particular, and to withdraw your confidence...
Página 277 - You cannot conciliate America by your present measures. You cannot subdue her by your present or by any measures. What, then, can you do ? You cannot conquer ; you cannot gain ; but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them.
Página 277 - I CANNOT, my lords, I WILL NOT join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment : it is not a time for adulation : the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne, in the language of TRUTH.
Página 296 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy!
Página 141 - Principes pro victoria pugnant; comites pro principe. Si civitas, in qua orti sunt, longa pace et otio torpeat plerique nobilium...
Página 277 - As to the disposition of foreign powers, which is asserted to be pacific and friendly, let us judge, my Lords, rather by their actions and the nature of things than by interested assertions. The uniform assistance supplied to America by France suggests a different conclusion. The most important interests of France, in aggrandising and enriching herself with what she most wants, supplies of every naval store from America, must inspire her with different sentiments.