Parliamentary speeches from 1761 to 1802William Hazlitt Prior and Dunning, 1810 |
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... France 474 on the Habeas Corpus 491 on an Inquiry into the Conduct of Ministers on Mr. Pitt's Bill for preventing Sedition on the Address to his Majesty 511 317 528 in answer to Mr. Dundas Sir W. Meredith's Speech on the Lord Mayor ...
... France 474 on the Habeas Corpus 491 on an Inquiry into the Conduct of Ministers on Mr. Pitt's Bill for preventing Sedition on the Address to his Majesty 511 317 528 in answer to Mr. Dundas Sir W. Meredith's Speech on the Lord Mayor ...
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... France 448 Mr. Sergeant Adair , on the Introduction of Foreign Troops into the Kingdom 482 Mr. Dundas , on employing the Emigrants 484 Mr. Grey , on the Treason Bill - 486 on moving for Peace 507 Mr. Canning , on the Treason Bill 488 Mr ...
... France 448 Mr. Sergeant Adair , on the Introduction of Foreign Troops into the Kingdom 482 Mr. Dundas , on employing the Emigrants 484 Mr. Grey , on the Treason Bill - 486 on moving for Peace 507 Mr. Canning , on the Treason Bill 488 Mr ...
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... France for a particular peace with that crown , which were fol- lowed by an actual negociation ; yet that congress hath not hitherto taken place , and the negociation with France is entirely broken off . The sincerity of my disposition ...
... France for a particular peace with that crown , which were fol- lowed by an actual negociation ; yet that congress hath not hitherto taken place , and the negociation with France is entirely broken off . The sincerity of my disposition ...
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... France had been permitted to make so considerable an acquisition as the island of Cor- sica ? That no man could deny that this island would prove a great addition to the strength of France , with respect to her marine , both from its ...
... France had been permitted to make so considerable an acquisition as the island of Cor- sica ? That no man could deny that this island would prove a great addition to the strength of France , with respect to her marine , both from its ...
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... shall only say , that France has obtained à more useful and important acquisition in one pacific campaign , than in any of her belligerent cam- paigns ; at least , while I had the honour A. D. 1770. ] EARL OF CHATHAM . 45.
... shall only say , that France has obtained à more useful and important acquisition in one pacific campaign , than in any of her belligerent cam- paigns ; at least , while I had the honour A. D. 1770. ] EARL OF CHATHAM . 45.
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الصفحة 283 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences, — a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
الصفحة 342 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
الصفحة 285 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
الصفحة 295 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
الصفحة 295 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
الصفحة 11 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever ; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
الصفحة 286 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
الصفحة 288 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
الصفحة 294 - The Church of England, too, was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world, and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty.
الصفحة 11 - There is an idea in some, that the colonies are virtually represented in this House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here...