Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Volume 4William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), William Stanhope Taylor, John Henry Pringle John Murray, 1840 |
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affectionate America appear attend bill Burton Pynsent called CHATHAM TO JOHN Colonel Barré conduct constitution COUNTESS OF CHATHAM court crown DEAR LORD dear Sir debate declared desire Duke of Richmond Dunning EARL OF CHATHAM EARL OF SHELBURNE England esteem favour flattering France Friday friends give governor happy Hayes hear honour hope House of Commons House of Lords humble servant India Ireland January JOHN CALCRAFT judge Junius jury justice King King's Lady Chatham letter liberty Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Mansfield Lord Mayor Lord North Lord Rockingham Lord Temple Lordship Majesty matter measure ministers ministry Monday motion nation noble lord o'clock obedient obliged occasion opinion parliament peace Pitt pleasure present proceedings question respect Rockingham sentiments ship Spain Spanish speech spirit thanks thing Thursday tion to-morrow trust Wedderburne William wish yesterday
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Page 460 - I call upon the honor of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Page 460 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country.
Page 385 - 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 I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
Page 404 - Colony, for contributing their proportion to the Common Defence (such proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court or General Assembly of such Province or Colony and disposable by Parliament) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the Civil Government and the administration of Justice...
Page 373 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 536 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page 454 - As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells...
Page 459 - ... to recommend an immediate cessation of hostilities, and the commencement of a treaty to restore peace and liberty to America, strength and happiness to England, security and permanent prosperity to both countries.
Page 382 - ... of those brave forefathers to inherit their sufferings, as they have inherited their virtues ? Are they to sustain the infliction of the most oppressive and unexampled severity, beyond the accounts of history, or description of poetry : " Rhadamanthus habet durissima regna, castigatque AUDITQUE.
Page 383 - ... wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land. In their simplicity of life is found the simpleness of virtue — the integrity and courage of freedom. These true genuine sons of the earth are invincible: and they surround and hem in the mercantile bodies ; even if these bodies, which supposition I totally disclaim, could be supposed disaffected to the cause of liberty.