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... ministers , the means of doing their duty ; especially in a crifis when our being depended on fupplying them with fome means or other . In fuch a cafe their penury of mind , in difcovering refources , would make it rather the more ...
... ministers , the means of doing their duty ; especially in a crifis when our being depended on fupplying them with fome means or other . In fuch a cafe their penury of mind , in difcovering refources , would make it rather the more ...
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... ministers disadvan- tageous to the nation , and by the merchants un- " fafe and unprofitable . " 66 Both the affertions in this paragraph are equally groundlefs . The treaty then concluded by Sir George Macartney was not on the terms ...
... ministers disadvan- tageous to the nation , and by the merchants un- " fafe and unprofitable . " 66 Both the affertions in this paragraph are equally groundlefs . The treaty then concluded by Sir George Macartney was not on the terms ...
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... . The Duke of Richmond perfonally furveyed the place , and obtained a fuller knowledge of its true state and condition than any of our ministers had done ; and , and , in confequence , had larger offers from the STATE OF THE NATION . 187.
... . The Duke of Richmond perfonally furveyed the place , and obtained a fuller knowledge of its true state and condition than any of our ministers had done ; and , and , in confequence , had larger offers from the STATE OF THE NATION . 187.
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... minister a remedy to this capital evil of the age ; neither is he confiftent with himself , in conftantly extolling thofe whom he knows to be the authors of the very mifchief of which he complains , and which the whole nation feels fo ...
... minister a remedy to this capital evil of the age ; neither is he confiftent with himself , in conftantly extolling thofe whom he knows to be the authors of the very mifchief of which he complains , and which the whole nation feels fo ...
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... ministers , whom the people regard with the utmost abhorrence ; who vote thanks , when the publick opinion calls upon them for impeachments ; who are eager to grant , when the general voice de- mands account ; who , in all difputes ...
... ministers , whom the people regard with the utmost abhorrence ; who vote thanks , when the publick opinion calls upon them for impeachments ; who are eager to grant , when the general voice de- mands account ; who , in all difputes ...
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Página 333 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some particular principle, in which they are all agreed.
Página 286 - ... of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity, some sympathy of nature with their constituents, than that they should in all cases be wholly untouched by the opinions and feelings of the people out of doors.
Página 418 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Página 388 - But it may be truly said, that men too much conversant in office are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted.
Página 433 - I look, I say, on the imperial rights of Great Britain, and the privileges which the colonists ought to enjoy under these rights, to be just the most reconcilable things in the world.
Página 422 - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Página 433 - Reflect how you are to govern a people, who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue ; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience...
Página 397 - ... and at the head of the treasury department. It was indeed in a situation of little rank and no consequence, suitable to the mediocrity of my talents and pretensions. But a situation near enough to enable me to see, as well as others, what was going on ; and I did see in...
Página 334 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow It is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Página 363 - Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear.