Parliamentary speeches from 1761 to 1802William Hazlitt Prior and Dunning, 1810 |
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... danger , while they have breath and lungs left , that they will ever suffer the public to be at a loss for daily specimens of their polished eloquence and profound wisdom . There were some other objects to be attended to in making this ...
... danger , while they have breath and lungs left , that they will ever suffer the public to be at a loss for daily specimens of their polished eloquence and profound wisdom . There were some other objects to be attended to in making this ...
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... danger might have been supported by others . With respect to Corsica , I shall only say , that France has obtained a more useful and important acquisition in one pacific campaign , than in any of her belligerent cam- paigns ; at least ...
... danger might have been supported by others . With respect to Corsica , I shall only say , that France has obtained a more useful and important acquisition in one pacific campaign , than in any of her belligerent cam- paigns ; at least ...
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... danger , until it comes with accumulated terror upon us . My lords , the condition of his majesty's affairs in Ireland , and the state of that kingdom within itself , will undoubtedly make a very material part of your lord- ships ...
... danger , until it comes with accumulated terror upon us . My lords , the condition of his majesty's affairs in Ireland , and the state of that kingdom within itself , will undoubtedly make a very material part of your lord- ships ...
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... danger to this country , be ever so alarming , unless there be an actual rebellion or invasion in Great Britain . Even in the two cases excepted by the king's promise , the mis- chief must have already begun to operate , must have ...
... danger to this country , be ever so alarming , unless there be an actual rebellion or invasion in Great Britain . Even in the two cases excepted by the king's promise , the mis- chief must have already begun to operate , must have ...
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... danger presses . If the house of commons think themselves insulted , by having a member forced upon them , whose private or public qualities are obnoxious to them , let them de- termine it among themselves ; it would ill become us to ...
... danger presses . If the house of commons think themselves insulted , by having a member forced upon them , whose private or public qualities are obnoxious to them , let them de- termine it among themselves ; it would ill become us to ...
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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...