The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire; and a View of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris in 1763; in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son, Volume 5A. Small, 1822 |
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Brani popolari
Pagina 67 - ... to rescue and secure a pious and gallant nation from the popery and despotism of a superstitious and inexorable tyrant. Your majesty, we are confident, justly rejoices that your title to the crown is thus founded on the title of your people to liberty ; and, therefore, we doubt not but your royal wisdom must approve the sensibility that teaches your subjects anxiously to guard the blessing they received from divine Providence, and thereby to prove the performance of that compact which elevated...
Pagina 60 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Pagina 243 - Britain, should determine on the means whereby the royal assent may be given in parliament to such bill as may be passed by the two Houses of parliament, respecting the exercise of the powers and authorities of the crown, in the name and on the behalf of the king, during the continuance of his majesty's present indisposition.
Pagina 66 - 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...
Pagina 243 - Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm...
Pagina 134 - The king insists," so ran its words, " on the exemplary punishment of the pensionary Van Berckel and his accomplices, as disturbers of the public peace and violators of the rights of nations.
Pagina 249 - England, she must show herself disposed to renounce her views of aggression and aggrandisement, and to confine herself within her own territory, without insulting other governments, without disturbing their tranquillity, without violating their rights.
Pagina 211 - Convention has pronounced upon the measures that it believes it ought to adopt to secure the sovereignty of the people, and the reign of liberty and equality.
Pagina 128 - With this mover and this seconder agreed the whole House of Commons ; the whole House of Lords ; the whole bench of Bishops ; the King; the Ministry; the Opposition; all the distinguished clergy of the establishment ; all the eminent lights (for they were consulted) of the dissenting churches. This according voice of national wisdom ought to be listened to with reverence.
Pagina 186 - The heads of two victims were carried upon pikes by the advanced guard of the rabble ; the Parisian militia followed ; and the " royal captives (in the forcible and indignant language of Burke) were slowly moved along, amidst the horrid yells, and shrill screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations of the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women.