The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons [and of the House of Lords] Containing an Account of the Interesting Speeches and Motions ... During the 1st Session of the 14th [-18th] Parliament of Great BritainJ. Almon, 1784 |
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... late Changes had been pre- ceded by extraordinary Reports , 528 to 540 The King's Meffage , 540 Debate on Mr. Pitt's Motion for Leave to bring in his India Bill , 541 Debate on the Rumour of a Place ha- ving been offered to a Mr ...
... late Changes had been pre- ceded by extraordinary Reports , 528 to 540 The King's Meffage , 540 Debate on Mr. Pitt's Motion for Leave to bring in his India Bill , 541 Debate on the Rumour of a Place ha- ving been offered to a Mr ...
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... late Adminiftration ; his object was only to fhew that the pre- fent Minifters attended even to the moft minute interefts of this country . The fpeech recommended to the serious atten- tion of the House , the prefent ftate of the ...
... late Adminiftration ; his object was only to fhew that the pre- fent Minifters attended even to the moft minute interefts of this country . The fpeech recommended to the serious atten- tion of the House , the prefent ftate of the ...
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... late war , which he was happy to fay was now finally terminated , had been remarkably unfortunate to us ; but ftill it ferved to place the British character for mar- tial deeds in the higheft point of view ; no nation was ever involved ...
... late war , which he was happy to fay was now finally terminated , had been remarkably unfortunate to us ; but ftill it ferved to place the British character for mar- tial deeds in the higheft point of view ; no nation was ever involved ...
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... late belligerent powers agreed with him in the fincerity of their wishes to keep the calamities of war at a great dif- tance . He enlarged on the bleffings of peace ; and faid , that on its long continuance depended the future welfare ...
... late belligerent powers agreed with him in the fincerity of their wishes to keep the calamities of war at a great dif- tance . He enlarged on the bleffings of peace ; and faid , that on its long continuance depended the future welfare ...
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... late Adminiftration had . been frequently reproached for not having been able to con- clude in a very short space of time , a treaty , which to thofe who were not then in the cabinet , feemed to be a work of the greatest facility ; and ...
... late Adminiftration had . been frequently reproached for not having been able to con- clude in a very short space of time , a treaty , which to thofe who were not then in the cabinet , feemed to be a work of the greatest facility ; and ...
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Página 603 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 392 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Página 377 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Página 392 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Página 265 - But this gentleman, a subject, may this day say this at least with truth, — that he secures the rice in his pot to every man in India. A poet of antiquity thought it one of the first distinctions to a prince whom he meant to celebrate, that through a long succession of generations he had been the progenitor of an able and virtuous citizen who by force of the arts of peace had corrected governments of oppression and suppressed wars of rapine. Indole proh quanta...
Página 225 - Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by...
Página 377 - And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! For in one hour is she made desolate.
Página 377 - And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
Página 265 - Fourth wished that he might live to see a fowl in the pot of every peasant in his kingdom. That sentiment of homely benevolence was worth all the splendid sayings that are recorded of kings. But he wished perhaps for more than could be obtained, and the goodness of the man exceeded the power of the king. But this gentleman, a subject, may this day say this at least, with truth, that he secures the rice in his pot to every man in India.
Página 266 - India, which will not bless the presiding care and manly beneficence of this house, and of him who proposes to you this great work.