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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 36 0 Browse Search
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William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 12 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
a bill to overrule charters, and to make all orders by the king, or under his authority, the highest law of America. Such a coalition of power seemed in harmony with that legislative supremacy, which was esteemed the great whig doctrine of the revolution of 1683; it also had the semblance of an earlier precedent. In the reign of Henry the Eighth, parliament sanctioned what a king, by his royal power, might do, 31 Hen. VIII. c. VIII. Compare 1 Ed. VI., c. XII., Hallam's Constitutional Hist. of England, i. 47, 48, 50. and gave the energy of law to his proclamations and ordinances. In this it did but surrender the liberties of its own constituents: Halifax and his board invited the British parliament to sequester the liberties of other communities, and transfer them to the British crown. The people of Connecticut, Journal of Commons, XXV. 793. through their agent, Eliakim Palmer, protested against the unusual and extraordinary attempt, so repugnant to the laws and constit
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
is concern that any cause of offence had arisen, and affirmed his determined purpose of peace. The minister of foreign relations, De Puysieux, who, on the part of France, was responsible for the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, a man of honor, though not of ability, was equally disinclined to disturb the public tranquillity. But Saint-Contest, who, in September, 1751, succeeded him, though a feeble statesman and fond of peace, yet aimed at a federative maritime system against England; Flassan: Hist. de la Diplomatic Fran aise, VI. 15. and Rouille, the minister of the marine department, loved war and prepared for it. Spain wisely kept aloof. By antipathy, said the Marquis of Ensenada, the considerate minister of Ferdinand the Sixth, and from interest also, the French and English will be enemies, for they are rivals for universal commerce; and he urged on his sovereign seasonable preparations, that he might, by neutrality, recover Gibraltar, and become the arbiter of the civilized world
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
regulars with three hundred thousand pounds, to New England, to train its inhabitants in war, and, through them, to conquer Canada. After assuming the hero, and breathing nothing but war, the administration confessed its indecision; and in October, while England's foolish prime minister was sending pacific messages to the French administration, particularly to Madame de Pompadour and the Duke de Mirepoix, Newcastle to Walpole, 20 Oct., 1754. Walpole's Memoires, i. 347. Compare Flassan: Hist. de la Diplomatie Francaise. the direction and conduct of American affairs was left entirely to the Duke of Cumberland, then the captaingeneral of the British army. The French ministry desired to put trust in the chap. VII.} 1754. solemn assurances of England. Giving discretionary power in case of a rupture, they instructed Duquesne to act only on the defensive; Le Garde des Sceaux to Duqaesne, 1754. New York Paris Doc., x., 44. to shun effusion of blood, and to employ Indian war-pa
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
easure in Virgil and Columella. He had an air of the greatest importance, and in look and manner assumed an extraordinary appearance of wisdom. Chatham Correspond., i. 157. Waldegrave's Memoirs, 38. Unacquainted with business and unemployed in public office, yet as a consistent and most obsequious royalist, he retained the confidence of the princess dowager, and was the instructor chap. X.} 1756. of the future sovereign of England in the theory of the British constitution. Adolphus: Hist. of England, i. 12. On the organization of his household, Prince George desired to have him about his person. The request of the prince, which Pitt advocated, was resisted by Newcastle and by Hardwicke. To embroil the royal family, the latter did not hesitate to blast the reputation of the mother of the heir apparent by tales of scandal, The scandal against the Princess Dowager, the mother of Geo. III., has been often repeated; yet it seems to have sprung from the malicious gossip of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
ove all others; and on the third day after his accession, he called Bute, who was but his groom of the stole, and who had forfeited Pitt's friendship, Adolphus: Hist. of England, i. 11. not to the Privy Council only, but also to the cabinet. Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of King George III., i. 8, and Sir Denis Le Marchantted Grimaldi. To further the negotiations, Bussy repaired May. to London, furnished with authority to offer bribes to members of the English cabinet; Flassan: Hist. de la Diplomatie Francaise, VI. 399. and the circumspect, distrustful Hans Stanley, who dared only reflect the will of his employer, made his way to Paris. But sible to the people, he talks the language of the House of Commons, and forgets that at this board he is responsible only to the king. Annual Register, IV. 42. Hist. Minority. Walpole's George III, IV. 144. Adolphus, i. 44. The Duke of Newcastle was never seen in higher spirits, Sir George Colebrooke's Memoirs in a no