The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 5James Potts, 1775 |
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... should have been an army of execution , not an army of ob- fervation . That the general in his laft letters had represented himself as being at once befieged and befieging ; that he complained his cannon had been ftolen , and other ...
... should have been an army of execution , not an army of ob- fervation . That the general in his laft letters had represented himself as being at once befieged and befieging ; that he complained his cannon had been ftolen , and other ...
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... should next proceed on the ftamp - tax , and then the abfentee - tax would come under confideration ; after which the other new duties would fol- low . He then moved to refolve , that to- wards raifing the faid fupply , the fum of ...
... should next proceed on the ftamp - tax , and then the abfentee - tax would come under confideration ; after which the other new duties would fol- low . He then moved to refolve , that to- wards raifing the faid fupply , the fum of ...
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... should not extend to civil bills ; and the expence of commiffioners might be faved , as the commiffioners of accounts might do that duty , He added that he thought the prefent administration good , candid and fincere , and that ...
... should not extend to civil bills ; and the expence of commiffioners might be faved , as the commiffioners of accounts might do that duty , He added that he thought the prefent administration good , candid and fincere , and that ...
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... should be inclu- ded . Mr. Scott oppofed the motion ; and Mr. Meade withdrew it to propofe it at a more convenient time . On Wednesday Nov. 24 , leave was giv- en to bring in heads of a bill to ex- plain and amend the acts made for the ...
... should be inclu- ded . Mr. Scott oppofed the motion ; and Mr. Meade withdrew it to propofe it at a more convenient time . On Wednesday Nov. 24 , leave was giv- en to bring in heads of a bill to ex- plain and amend the acts made for the ...
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... Should a man publifh any thing concern- ing the parliament that was ftrictly truth , though from thofe truths he should even draw falfe confequences , and say such and fuch a measure of the house would be the ruin of the country , and ...
... Should a man publifh any thing concern- ing the parliament that was ftrictly truth , though from thofe truths he should even draw falfe confequences , and say such and fuch a measure of the house would be the ruin of the country , and ...
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Page 399 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 155 - ... house. He has said that the Americans are our children, and how can they revolt against their parent ? He says, that if they are not free in their present state, England is not free ; because Manchester, and other considerable places are not represented. So then, because some towns...
Page 151 - I am not disposed to blame him. Let those, who have betrayed him by their adulation, insult him with their malevolence.
Page 386 - Englishman travelling in that country could not go six yards from the high-road without being murdered. The march of the human mind is slow. Sir, it was not until after two hundred years discovered that, by an eternal law, Providence had decreed vexation to violence and poverty to rapine. Your ancestors did, however, at length open their eyes to the ill husbandry of injustice.
Page 347 - It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. 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.
Page 340 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Page 90 - Sir, it is not a pleasant consideration ; but nothing in the world can read so awful and so instructive a lesson, as the conduct of ministry in this business, upon the mischief of not having large and liberal ideas in the management of great affairs.
Page 345 - Lastly, we have no sort of experience in favor of force as an instrument in the rule of our colonies. Their growth and their utility has been owing to methods altogether different. Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault. It may be so ; but we know, if feeling is evidence, that our fault was more tolerable than our attempt to mend it, and our sin far more salutary than our penitence.
Page 148 - I remember, Sir, with a melancholy pleasure, the situation of the honourable gentleman who made the motion for the repeal ; in that crisis, when the whole trading interest of this empire, crammed into your lobbies, with a trembling and anxious expectation, waited, almost to a winter's return of light, their fate from your resolutions. When at length you had determined in their...
Page 344 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.