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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... taken place during the recefs of Parliament . The definitive treaties of peace , between the Court of Great Britain and thofe of France and Spain , and the United States of America , had been happily concluded ; by which the feal was ...
... taken place during the recefs of Parliament . The definitive treaties of peace , between the Court of Great Britain and thofe of France and Spain , and the United States of America , had been happily concluded ; by which the feal was ...
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... taken place fimply , and without being accompanied by fimilar misfor- tunes in the fleets and finances of the enemy ; for if , when it is proved that we have fuffered , it is also made manifeft , that the enemy has fuffered in the fame ...
... taken place fimply , and without being accompanied by fimilar misfor- tunes in the fleets and finances of the enemy ; for if , when it is proved that we have fuffered , it is also made manifeft , that the enemy has fuffered in the fame ...
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... taken to ftipulate every condition that could be asked for the protection of thofe , who had no longer the happi- nefs to be the fubjects of his Majefty ; they were now as effectually fecured as when they were fo . This alone he con ...
... taken to ftipulate every condition that could be asked for the protection of thofe , who had no longer the happi- nefs to be the fubjects of his Majefty ; they were now as effectually fecured as when they were fo . This alone he con ...
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... taken place , namely , the peace with France , he did not think any ratification necef- fary . This was the language he had held in his difpatches to our negociators : but as the other powers were of opinion , that they ought not to ...
... taken place , namely , the peace with France , he did not think any ratification necef- fary . This was the language he had held in his difpatches to our negociators : but as the other powers were of opinion , that they ought not to ...
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... taken to inveftigate and enquire into the real ftate of our Indian territories ; and fuch able and accurate reports had been made upon the fubject , that no popular af- fembly could poffibly be better informed , than that House was ...
... taken to inveftigate and enquire into the real ftate of our Indian territories ; and fuch able and accurate reports had been made upon the fubject , that no popular af- fembly could poffibly be better informed , than that House was ...
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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.