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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
cco on every poll. The parishes were about forty in number, increasing in value, some of them promising soon to yield a thousand pounds sterling a year. Thus the lewd Lord Baltimore had more church patronage than any landholder in England; and, as there was no bishop in America, ruffians, fugitives from justice, men stained by intemperance chap. VI.} 1754. and lust, Several Letters of the Lieutenant-governor Sharpe. But see in particular H. Sharpe to Hammersly, 22 June, 1768, and T. B. Chandler to S. Johnson, 9 June, 1767. (I write with caution, the distinct allegations being before me,) nestled themselves, through his corrupt and easy nature, in the parishes of Maryland. The king had reserved no right of revising the laws of Maryland, nor could he invalidate them, except as they should be found repugnant to those of England. Though the Acts of Trade were in force, the royal power was specially restrained from imposing or causing to be imposed any customs or other taxations
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
s not only, as a king, disposed to do all in his power to make his subjects happy, but is undoubtedly of a disposition truly religious. Horace Walpole echoed the praises of his grace, dignity, and good-nature; expressed his admiration in courtly verses, and began a friendly correspondence with Bute. All his dispositions are good, said Secker, the archbishop; he is a regular, worthy, and pious young man, and hath the interest of religion sincerely at heart. Seeker to Johnson, 4 Nov., in Chandler's Life of Johnson, 182. The poet Churchil did but echo the voice of the nation, when he wrote: Stripped of her gaudy plumes and vain disguise, See where Ambition, mean and loathsome, lies! Reflection with relentless hand pulls down The tyrant's bloody wreath and ravished crown. In vain he tells of battles bravely won, Of nations conquered, and of worlds undone. But if, in searching round the world, we find Some generous youth, the friend of all mankind, Whose anger, like the bolt of Jov