Mirabeau's letters, during his residence in England; with anecdotes &c., tr. from the MSS. To which is prefixed, an intr. notice, Volume 1 |
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... Hardy - the man whose trial at the Old Bailey is inserted in the first of these volumes . It is not known to whom they had been written ; for , having been col- lected , either by Mirabeau or Adam , and partially arranged , with a view ...
... Hardy - the man whose trial at the Old Bailey is inserted in the first of these volumes . It is not known to whom they had been written ; for , having been col- lected , either by Mirabeau or Adam , and partially arranged , with a view ...
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... Hardy , the Servant of Comte Mirabeau , for the Robbery of his Master - Mirabeau's determination to make that Trial turn to the Benefit of his own Country , and to intro- PAGE 304 318 duce the Trial by Jury into France - Difference of ...
... Hardy , the Servant of Comte Mirabeau , for the Robbery of his Master - Mirabeau's determination to make that Trial turn to the Benefit of his own Country , and to intro- PAGE 304 318 duce the Trial by Jury into France - Difference of ...
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... Hardy's Trial —Sir William Garrow - Sir John Sylvester and Eliza Fen- ning Justice Fielding PAGE • 320 LETTER LV . Hardy's Acquittal - Britons Rule the Waves - Insolence of Counsel , and Duty of Judges Hirelings of the Press , and ...
... Hardy's Trial —Sir William Garrow - Sir John Sylvester and Eliza Fen- ning Justice Fielding PAGE • 320 LETTER LV . Hardy's Acquittal - Britons Rule the Waves - Insolence of Counsel , and Duty of Judges Hirelings of the Press , and ...
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... Hardy , of a valuable MS . , and of various articles of wearing - apparel , the property of himself and of the lady by whom he was accompanied . Hardy was tried for the offence , at the Old Bailey , and acquitted ; a termination of the ...
... Hardy , of a valuable MS . , and of various articles of wearing - apparel , the property of himself and of the lady by whom he was accompanied . Hardy was tried for the offence , at the Old Bailey , and acquitted ; a termination of the ...
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... I have got into a scrape , through my servant Hardy , which will end in a law - suit ; and Sir Gilbert is my counsel . Vale , my dear friend . VOL . I. E LETTER XVIII . Remarkable Letters from Voltaire , Madame du MIRABEAU'S LETTERS . 73.
... I have got into a scrape , through my servant Hardy , which will end in a law - suit ; and Sir Gilbert is my counsel . Vale , my dear friend . VOL . I. E LETTER XVIII . Remarkable Letters from Voltaire , Madame du MIRABEAU'S LETTERS . 73.
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Page 368 - 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 and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent: doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely.
Page 357 - I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favorite study — I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the General Congress at Philadelphia.
Page 368 - I do; I know their virtues and their valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Page 370 - What makes ambition virtue? The sense of honor. But is the sense of honor consistent with a spirit of plunder or the practice of murder? Can it flow from mercenary motives, or can it prompt to cruel deeds? Besides these murderers and plunderers, let me ask our ministers: What other allies have they acquired? What other powers have they associated to their cause ? Have they entered into alliance with the king of the gipsies ? Nothing, my lords, is too low or too ludicrous to be consistent with their...
Page lvii - Cependant, pour éviter toute équivoque et tout délai, je vous déclare que, si l'on vous a chargé de nous faire sortir d'ici, vous devez demander des ordres pour employer la force, car nous ne quitterons nos places que par la puissance de la baïonnette.
Page 376 - Princess: 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.— This, my Lords, is yet in our power; and let not the wisdom and justice of your Lordships neglect the happy, and, perhaps the only opportunity.
Page 375 - You cannot subdue her by your present or by any measures. What, then, can you do ? You cannot conquer ; you cannot gain ; but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them.
Page 94 - The secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty; and one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence, that he conspired to remove him, in order to be relieved from his superiority.
Page 94 - The ordinary feelings which make life amiable and indolent, were unknown to him. No domestic difficulties, no domestic weakness, reached him ; but, aloof from the 'sordid occurrences of life, and unsullied by its intercourse, he came occasionally into our system, to counsel and to decide.
Page 369 - German despot ; your attempts will be for ever vain and impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms : Never, never, never...