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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 51: (search)
erburn died, there was no man to mourn; no senate spoke his praise; no poet embalmed his memory; and his King, hearing that he was certainly dead, said only, He has not left a greater knave behind him in my dominions. Brougham on Loughborough. The report of the Lords which had been prepared beforehand, was immediately signed; and they went away, almost ready to throw up their hats for joy, as if by the vehement Philippic against the hoary-headed Franklin, they had obtained a triumph. C. J. Fox's Speeches, VI. 527. And who were the Lords of the Council, that thus thought to mark and brand the noblest representative of free labor who for many a year had earned his daily bread as apprentice, journeyman, or mechanic, and knew the heart of the working man, Kingsley's Alton Locke. and felt for the people of whom he remained one? If they who upon that occasion pretended to sit in judgment had never come into being, whom among them all would humanity have missed? But how would
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 52: (search)
y of State would speak with the French Minister of nothing but harmony. Never, said he in like manner to Pignatelli, Garnier to the Duke D'Aiguillon, 4 Feb. 1774. the Representative of Spain, never was the union between Versailles, Madrid and London, so solid; I see nothing that can shake it. Yet the old distrust lurked under the pretended confidence. Rochfort to Stormont, 18 March, 1774. The Government at the time encountered no formidable opposition. One day in February, Charles James Fox, who was of the Treasury Board, severely censured Lord North for want of decision and courage. The King was greatly incensed at his presumption. That young man, said the King, has so thoroughly cast off every principle of common honor and honesty, that he must become as contemptible as he is odious. He was therefore dismissed from office at this critical moment in American affairs; and being unconnected, he was left free to follow his own bold and generous impulses. He was soon to