 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 472 pàgines
...crown upon the house of IJanover, but left themselves at large, in hopes to make their advantage ; and it was thought highly dangerous to leave that part...liberty to put themselves under a different king. However, the opposition to this work was so great, that it could not be overcome, until some time after... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pàgines
...crown u; on the house of Hanover, but left themselves at large, in hopes to make their advantage ; and it was thought highly dangerous to leave that part...liberty to put themselves under a different king. However, the opposition to this work was so great, that it could not be overcome, until some time after... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pàgines
...crown upon the House of Hanover, but left themselves at large, in hopes to make their advantage ; and it was thought highly dangerous to leave that part...liberty to put themselves under a different king. However, the opposition to this work Avas so great, that it could not be overcome, until some time... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 552 pàgines
...crown upon the House of Hanover, but left themselves at large, in hopes to make their advantage ; and it was thought highly dangerous to leave that part...liberty to put themselves under a different king. However, the opposition to this work was so great; that it could not be overcome, until some time after... | |
 | John Russell (1st earl.) - 1826 - 700 pàgines
...Union with Scotland towards the end of the reign of King William, the writer said they arose " because it was thought highly dangerous to leave that part...liberty to put themselves under a different king." The pamphlet of Steele, which gave such offence to the House of Commons, is written in language still... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1826 - 360 pàgines
...Union with Scotland towards the end of the reign of King William, the writer said they arose " because it was thought highly dangerous to leave that part...people, at liberty to put themselves under a different king.w The pamphlet of Steele, which gave such offence to the House of Commons, is written in language... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 350 pàgines
...sarcastic, political lampoon against the Whigs and their champion, interspersed with bitter reSections upon the Duke of Argyle and his country. In this composition,...privilege of universally arming themselves. " The Union, he allows, became necessary, because it might have cost England a year or two of war to reduce... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 352 pàgines
...justly, but offensively, imputes to the Scots refusing to settle the Crown on the line of I^anover, when, according to the satirist, it was thought "...privilege of universally arming themselves. " The Union, he allows, became necessary, because it might have cost England a year or two of war to reduce... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1833 - 520 pàgines
...Ireland was excluded. The natural mode of redressing this inequality, was certainly to put all (he three nations on a similar footing. But as nothing...privilege of universally arming themselves. " The Union, he allows, became necessary, because it might have cost England a year or two of war to reduce... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 512 pàgines
...composition, the author gives rein to his prejudices against the Scottish nation. He grudged that Scot land should have been admitted into commercial privileges,...of universally arming themselves. " The 5* VOL. I. 54 ISWIFT'.S PJUCTPHEBT Union, he allows, became necessary, because it might have cost England a year... | |
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Union, they were all the while in agony lest they should prove successful. Acute observer of men and motives as he was, Swift was in this instance mistaken. Less sharp-sighted than this celebrated author, and blinded by their own exasperated pride, the... 
