The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the SpeechesAylott & Jones, 1848 - 170 էջ |
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... carried . Lord Chatham was first taken to the house of Mr. Sargent , in Downing - street ; and when he had in some measure recovered , he was removed to his own residence at Hayes ; where , after lin- gering for a few days , he expired ...
... carried . Lord Chatham was first taken to the house of Mr. Sargent , in Downing - street ; and when he had in some measure recovered , he was removed to his own residence at Hayes ; where , after lin- gering for a few days , he expired ...
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... most part attributable to their not having been suffered to carry on smuggling with impunity . By virtue of two treaties concluded in the years 1667 2 THE MODERN ORATOR . Mar The Spanish Convention Mar The Spanish Convention.
... most part attributable to their not having been suffered to carry on smuggling with impunity . By virtue of two treaties concluded in the years 1667 2 THE MODERN ORATOR . Mar The Spanish Convention Mar The Spanish Convention.
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... carried on trade with each other , but reserved the right of searching the merchant - vessels sailing near the ports and in the seas belonging to the respective countries , and of confiscating contraband goods . Much debate . arose on ...
... carried on trade with each other , but reserved the right of searching the merchant - vessels sailing near the ports and in the seas belonging to the respective countries , and of confiscating contraband goods . Much debate . arose on ...
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... carried further into execution , and by being more strongly cemented ? But be it what it will , is this any longer a nation ? Is this any longer an English Parliament , if with more ships in your harbours than in all the navies of ...
... carried further into execution , and by being more strongly cemented ? But be it what it will , is this any longer a nation ? Is this any longer an English Parliament , if with more ships in your harbours than in all the navies of ...
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... carried by a majority of only 28 ; the numbers being 260 against 232. * SIR CHARLES WAGER'S BILL FOR THE INCREASE OF THE NAVY . 1741. Upon the 27th of January , Sir Charles Wager † introduced a bill for the encouragement and increase of ...
... carried by a majority of only 28 ; the numbers being 260 against 232. * SIR CHARLES WAGER'S BILL FOR THE INCREASE OF THE NAVY . 1741. Upon the 27th of January , Sir Charles Wager † introduced a bill for the encouragement and increase of ...
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Էջ v - 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...
Էջ 143 - 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...
Էջ 130 - 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.
Էջ 148 - Spain; in vain he defended and established the honour, the liberties, the religion, the Protestant religion, of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of popery and the inquisition, if these more than popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us...
Էջ 130 - ... becoming your exalted situation, make the first advances to concord, to peace, and happiness ; for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede is obvious from sound and rational policy. Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power. It reconciles superiority of power with the feelings of men, and establishes solid confidence on the foundations of affection and gratitude.
Էջ 84 - ... unless by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land...
Էջ 147 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country.
Էջ 70 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Էջ 67 - The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted.
Էջ 63 - I called it forth, and drew into your service a hardy and intrepid race of men — men, who, when left by your jealousy, became a prey to the artifices of your enemies, and had gone nigh to have overturned the state in the war before the last.