History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles: 1713 - 1783 : In Seven Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1853 |
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Page 90
... eloquent and well known burst of oratory , which is ascribed to Colonel Barré , on one of these occasions . Mr. Grenville having spoken of the Americans as children of our own , planted by our care and nourished by our indulgence ...
... eloquent and well known burst of oratory , which is ascribed to Colonel Barré , on one of these occasions . Mr. Grenville having spoken of the Americans as children of our own , planted by our care and nourished by our indulgence ...
Page 91
... eloquence and energy that the House of Burgesses of his province was induced to pass a series of Resolutions , and a petition to the King denying in strong terms the right of the mother country to tax them without their own consent ...
... eloquence and energy that the House of Burgesses of his province was induced to pass a series of Resolutions , and a petition to the King denying in strong terms the right of the mother country to tax them without their own consent ...
Page 93
... eloquence as not only carried the cause , contrary to all previous expectation , but placed him ever afterwards at the head of his profession in the Colony . To this very day , says Mr. Wirt , writing in 1818 , the impres- sion remains ...
... eloquence as not only carried the cause , contrary to all previous expectation , but placed him ever afterwards at the head of his profession in the Colony . To this very day , says Mr. Wirt , writing in 1818 , the impres- sion remains ...
Page 94
... eloquence which on this occasion flashed forth from the coarse and unlettered Henry , as the spark of fire from the flint , continued to distinguish him both as a Member of the House of Burgesses at Williamsburg , and afterwards as a ...
... eloquence which on this occasion flashed forth from the coarse and unlettered Henry , as the spark of fire from the flint , continued to distinguish him both as a Member of the House of Burgesses at Williamsburg , and afterwards as a ...
Page 104
... eloquence of Grenville . " When , " such were the King's own words to Lord Bute , " he has wearied me for two hours , he looks at his watch " to see if he may not tire one for an hour more . " * Besides such ill - timed eloquence , he ...
... eloquence of Grenville . " When , " such were the King's own words to Lord Bute , " he has wearied me for two hours , he looks at his watch " to see if he may not tire one for an hour more . " * Besides such ill - timed eloquence , he ...
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