William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: And the Growth and Division of the British Empire, 1708-1778G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906 - 391 páginas |
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... Maria Theresa's husband . Europe was soon embroiled in a great conflict , and Carteret eagerly supported the Austrian cause . He persuaded Maria Theresa in 1742 to pay Frederick's price , and by the Treaty of Breslau detached Prussia ...
... Maria Theresa's husband . Europe was soon embroiled in a great conflict , and Carteret eagerly supported the Austrian cause . He persuaded Maria Theresa in 1742 to pay Frederick's price , and by the Treaty of Breslau detached Prussia ...
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... Maria Theresa and the new Bavarian Elector , while her husband secured the Imperial crown ; England signed a convention with Frederick in August , 1745 , and Austria was compelled again formally to renounce * Marchmont Papers , i . , 80 ...
... Maria Theresa and the new Bavarian Elector , while her husband secured the Imperial crown ; England signed a convention with Frederick in August , 1745 , and Austria was compelled again formally to renounce * Marchmont Papers , i . , 80 ...
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... Maria Theresa might pay them . In Italy , the Bourbon cause was completely victorious ; and the effect of Fontenoy was seen in the Jacobite rising , that last gallant effort of a chi- valrous folly . The year proved that the Whig oli ...
... Maria Theresa might pay them . In Italy , the Bourbon cause was completely victorious ; and the effect of Fontenoy was seen in the Jacobite rising , that last gallant effort of a chi- valrous folly . The year proved that the Whig oli ...
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... Maria Theresa . The colony had been kept unstained by the presence of any heretic , and the restrictive system involved in such a policy had been the main reason why Canada had not been more rapidly pop- ulated and developed . The ...
... Maria Theresa . The colony had been kept unstained by the presence of any heretic , and the restrictive system involved in such a policy had been the main reason why Canada had not been more rapidly pop- ulated and developed . The ...
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... Maria Theresa for twenty - five thousand men to aid in de- fending the Low Countries , in view of the probable French attack upon them . The application had been very coldly received . The Austrian Court had never forgiven the anxiety ...
... Maria Theresa for twenty - five thousand men to aid in de- fending the Low Countries , in view of the probable French attack upon them . The application had been very coldly received . The Austrian Court had never forgiven the anxiety ...
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administration Admiral alliance ally America Anson's Grafton army attack Austrian Bedford Bourbon Britain British Burke Bute Cabinet Canada Carteret character Charles Townshend Chatham Correspondence Choiseul colonies colonists command conduct conquests Court Crown declared defence Duke Empire enemy England English Europe favour Ferdinand fleet force France Frederick French friends George Grenville George III Government Grafton Grenville Papers Hanover Hanoverian Hardwicke honour Horace Walpole House of Bourbon House of Commons India influence King King's leader letter Lord Bute Lord Chatham Lord Rockingham Lord Temple Lyttleton Majesty Maria Theresa measures Memoirs of George ment Minister Ministry Minorca Montcalm nation naval negotiations never Newcastle offer opinion opposition Parliament party patriotism peace Pelham Pitt Pitt's political possessed Prince principles proposed Prussia question realised resigned Rockingham sent Shelburne ships sovereign Spain Spanish speech Stamp Act struggle thousand tion Townshend treaty troops victory Walpole's Memoirs Whig Wilkes wrote
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Página 342 - I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favorite study — I have read 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.
Página 343 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts: they must be repealed— you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them; I stake my reputation on it: I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed.
Página 31 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Página 255 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Página 324 - The dissenting ministers are represented as men of close ambition, they are so, my lords ; and their ambition is to keep close to the college of fishermen, not of cardinals ; and to the doctrine of inspired apostles, not to the decrees of interested and aspiring bishops. They contend for a spiritual creed and spiritual worship; we have a calvinistic creed, a popish liturgy, and an arminian clergy.
Página 255 - Be to her faults a little blind Be to her virtues very kind." Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the house what is my opinion. It is, that the stamp act be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately.
Página 390 - ... Alice Gardner. LOUIS XIV. By Arthur Hassall. CHARLES XII. By R. Nisbet Bain. LORENZO DE' MEDICI. By Edward Armstrong. JEANNE D'ARC. By Mrs. Oliphant. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. By Washington Irving. ROBERT THE BRUCE. By Sir Herbert Maxwell. HANNIBAL. By W. O'Connor Morris. ULYSSES S. GRANT. By William Conant Church. ROBERT E. LEE. By Henry Alexander White. THE CID CAMPEADOR. By H. Butler Clarke. SALADIN. By Stanley LanePoole.
Página 361 - My Lords, his Majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied. Shall we tarnish the lustre of this nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions...
Página 347 - Such, then, being your precarious situations, who should wonder that you can put a negative on any measure which must annihilate your power, deprive you of your emoluments, and at once reduce you to that state of insignificance, for which God and nature designed you ? " The bill was rejected by sixty-one against thirty-two.