Parliamentary speeches from 1761 to 1802William Hazlitt Prior and Dunning, 1810 |
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... influence , I might have still continued to serve ; but I would not be responsible for others . I have no local attachments : it is indifferent to me , whe- ther a man was rocked in his cradle on this or that side of the Tweed . I ...
... influence , I might have still continued to serve ; but I would not be responsible for others . I have no local attachments : it is indifferent to me , whe- ther a man was rocked in his cradle on this or that side of the Tweed . I ...
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... influence over them . The gentleman mentioned the stock - holders . I hope he does not reckon the debts of the nation a part of the national estate . Since the accession of king William , many ministers , some of great , others of more ...
... influence over them . The gentleman mentioned the stock - holders . I hope he does not reckon the debts of the nation a part of the national estate . Since the accession of king William , many ministers , some of great , others of more ...
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... influence . Their first exertion of the pre- rogative was to make a peace contrary to the wishes of the nation , and on terms totally disproportioned to the successes of the war : but as they felt themselves un- equal to the conduct of ...
... influence . Their first exertion of the pre- rogative was to make a peace contrary to the wishes of the nation , and on terms totally disproportioned to the successes of the war : but as they felt themselves un- equal to the conduct of ...
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... influence and favourite maxims of the administration . That the affairs of the external part of the empire had been managed with the same want of wisdom , and had been brought into nearly the same condition , with those at home . In ...
... influence and favourite maxims of the administration . That the affairs of the external part of the empire had been managed with the same want of wisdom , and had been brought into nearly the same condition , with those at home . In ...
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... , that out of forty counties thirteen had spirit and independence sufficient to stem such a tide of venality . But I will suppose that this was not the case ; that no undue influence was 53 [ A. D. 1770 . EARL OF CHATHAM .
... , that out of forty counties thirteen had spirit and independence sufficient to stem such a tide of venality . But I will suppose that this was not the case ; that no undue influence was 53 [ A. D. 1770 . EARL OF CHATHAM .
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...