Parliamentary speeches from 1761 to 1802William Hazlitt Prior and Dunning, 1810 |
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... America on allowing Members to vacate their Seats 130 Lord Mansfield , on the Middlesex Election 22 on the same Subject 60 on the Privileges of Members of Parliament 69 Marquis of Rockingham , on the State of the Nation Duke of Grafton ...
... America on allowing Members to vacate their Seats 130 Lord Mansfield , on the Middlesex Election 22 on the same Subject 60 on the Privileges of Members of Parliament 69 Marquis of Rockingham , on the State of the Nation Duke of Grafton ...
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... America - - Earl of Effingham , on the same Mr. Dunning , ( Lord Ashburton ) on punishing Persons suspect- on the Powers of the Admiralty Board on the Right of Petition Thomas Lord Lyttleton , on the War with America The Duke of ...
... America - - Earl of Effingham , on the same Mr. Dunning , ( Lord Ashburton ) on punishing Persons suspect- on the Powers of the Admiralty Board on the Right of Petition Thomas Lord Lyttleton , on the War with America The Duke of ...
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... America , as he might afterwards sce fit . One word only he could not approve of ; " early " is a word that does not belong to the notice the ministry have given to parliament of the troubles in America . In a matter of such importance ...
... America , as he might afterwards sce fit . One word only he could not approve of ; " early " is a word that does not belong to the notice the ministry have given to parliament of the troubles in America . In a matter of such importance ...
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... America , I was ill in bed . If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed , so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequence , I would have solicited some kind hand , to have laid me down on this floor , to have born ...
... America , I was ill in bed . If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed , so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequence , I would have solicited some kind hand , to have laid me down on this floor , to have born ...
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... America , and other circumstances permit- ting , the commons are become the proprietors of the land , The crown has divested itself of its great estates . The church ( God bless it ) has but a pittance . The pro- perty of the lords ...
... America , and other circumstances permit- ting , the commons are become the proprietors of the land , The crown has divested itself of its great estates . The church ( God bless it ) has but a pittance . The pro- perty of the lords ...
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Page 283 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences, — a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 342 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 285 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; 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...
Page 295 - 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. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Page 295 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 11 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever ; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 286 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
Page 288 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Page 294 - The Church of England, too, was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world, and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty.
Page 11 - There is an idea in some, that the colonies are virtually represented in this House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here...