Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution, Band 2

William Smyth

J. and J.J. Deighton, 1840 - 494 Seiten

Inhalt

• VOL II: 10
• 80: 13
• 184: 45
• Charles II: 50
• East and West Indies XXII William III: 80
• Anne XXIV Anne XXV AnneUnion of England and Scotland: 184
• Sir Robert Walpole: 211
• LawMississippi Scheme South Sea Bubble: 242
• George II Pelham Rebellion of 1745: 266
• Prussia and Maria Theresa: 295
• George III: 323
• American War XXXII American War XXXIII American War XXXIV American War XXXV American War XXXVI American War 242 266 295: 349

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 489 - Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

Seite 397 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.

Seite 489 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...

Seite 466 - And let me conjure you in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man, who wishes, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.

Seite 395 - ... in order to prove that the Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself; and we never seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate, without attacking some of those principles, or deriding some of those feelings, for which our ancestors have shed their blood.

Seite 415 - For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...

Seite 369 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.

Seite 371 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.

Seite 187 - I shall therefore venture to acknowledge, that, not only as a man, but as a British subject, I pray for the flourishing commerce of Germany, Spain, Italy, and even France itself. I am at least certain that Great Britain, and all those nations, would flourish more, did their sovereigns and ministers adopt such enlarged and benevolent sentiments towards each other.

Seite 396 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution, Band 2; Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution, William Smyth
• Autor/in: William Smyth
• Ausgabe: 2
• Verlag: J. and J.J. Deighton, 1840
• Original von: New York Public Library
• Digitalisiert: 20. Sept. 2005
• Länge: 494 Seiten