The Speeches of the Earl of Chatham, the Hon. R.B. Sheridan, Lord Erskine, and the Hon. Edmund Burke: With Biographical Memoirs, Etc1853 - 170 pages |
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... honourable gentleman has said , these were all the measures of a domestic nature that could be found fault with , because none other have been mentioned in this debate . Sir , he has already heard one reason assigned why no other ...
... honourable gentleman has said , these were all the measures of a domestic nature that could be found fault with , because none other have been mentioned in this debate . Sir , he has already heard one reason assigned why no other ...
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... honourable gentleman . Our conduct in the year 1734 , with regard to the war between the Emperor and France , may be easily accounted for , though not easily excused . * Ever since the last accession fo our * Augustus the Second , King ...
... honourable gentleman . Our conduct in the year 1734 , with regard to the war between the Emperor and France , may be easily accounted for , though not easily excused . * Ever since the last accession fo our * Augustus the Second , King ...
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... honourable gentleman that if we are con- vinced that the public measures are wrong , or that if we suspect them to be so , we ought to make inquiry , although there is not much complaint among the people ; but I wholly differ from him ...
... honourable gentleman that if we are con- vinced that the public measures are wrong , or that if we suspect them to be so , we ought to make inquiry , although there is not much complaint among the people ; but I wholly differ from him ...
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... honourable gentleman who made use of this objection must see how little it avails in the case before us ; and therefore I trust we shall have his concurrence in the question . " Lord Limerick's motion was carried by a majority of seven ...
... honourable gentleman who made use of this objection must see how little it avails in the case before us ; and therefore I trust we shall have his concurrence in the question . " Lord Limerick's motion was carried by a majority of seven ...
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... honourable gentleman has already been informed that no necessity existed for hiring auxiliary troops . It does not appear that either justice or policy required us to engage in the quarrels of the continent ; that there was any need of ...
... honourable gentleman has already been informed that no necessity existed for hiring auxiliary troops . It does not appear that either justice or policy required us to engage in the quarrels of the continent ; that there was any need of ...
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Page 478 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing and their privileges another— ^-that these two things may exist without any mutual relation — the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution.
Page 138 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Page 151 - 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...
Page 480 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 433 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Page 521 - ... piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; 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 ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 646 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Page xiii - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; 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 ; patriots and courtiers ; King's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious shew ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure...
Page 542 - House of Commons, as an immediate representative of the people, whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not. They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist.
Page 552 - Sir, let me add, too, that the opinion of my having some abstract right in my favor would not put me much at my ease in passing sentence, unless I could be sure that there were no rights which, in their exercise under certain circumstances, were not the most odious of all wrongs, and the most vexatious of all injustice. Sir, these considerations have great weight with me, when I find things so circumstanced that I see the same party, at once a civil litigant against me in point of right, and a culprit...