 | Charles Lucas - 1756 - 1078 páginas
...few boroughs ? — My council may confider the fitnefs, if I require It ; but what if I had created forty noblemen, and four hundred boroughs ? — The more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer. — [Deiid. Curiof. Hiber. vol. I. page 120] And he immediately committed their two agents,... | |
 | John Lodge - 1772 - 540 páginas
...many or few boroughs ? My council may confider the fitnefs, if I require it. But what if I had created forty noblemen, and four hundred boroughs ? The more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer. Bi'T this complaint, as you made it, was prepofterous ; for in contending for a committee before... | |
 | John Huddlestone Wynne - 1773 - 396 páginas
...point.—What is it to you whether I make many or few Boroughs ? my council may confider the fknefs, if IreI require it. But, what if I make forty noblemen and...the more the merrier, the fewer the better chear. I have caufed London alfo to creel boroughs there, and when they are thoroughly planted will be a great... | |
 | John Curry - 1793 - 438 páginas
...6 Id. ib. roughs ? My council may confider the fitnefs, if I require it; but what if I had created forty noblemen, and four hundred boroughs ? The more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer." Dcild. Curiof. Hibern. vol. ip 220. In the fame fpeech he tells the Irifh agents, " that of... | |
 | 1831 - 738 páginas
...remonstrance, exposes his vivacity and kingcraft with more than his usual absurdity. ' What if I had c created forty noblemen, and four hundred boroughs ? The ' more the merrier — the fewer the better cheer.' The practice of dropping towns through favouritism, or neglect, on the part of the sheriff,... | |
 | 1844 - 784 páginas
...or few boroughs ? My council may consider the fitness, if I require it. But what, if I had created forty noblemen and four hundred boroughs ? The more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer.' Strafford carried on the game of despotism, fraud, confiscation, and legal vengeance. Cromwell... | |
 | Francis Plowden - 1805 - 496 páginas
...many or few boroughs ; my council may consider the fitness, if I require it ; but what if I had made forty noblemen, and four hundred boroughs, the more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer. But this complaint, as you made it, was preposterous, for in contending for a committee, before... | |
 | William Sampson - 1807 - 474 páginas
...whether I make many or few boroughs ? My council may consider the fitness if I require it ; but if I made forty noblemen, and four hundred boroughs, the more the merrier — the fewer the better cheer."— What do you think of the eloquence of this king ? And again — " You that are of a contrary... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 732 páginas
...or few boroughs ? My council may consider the fitness, if I require it ; but what if I had created forty noblemen, and four hundred boroughs? The more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer." — Dcsid. Curias. Hilxrn. TaL ip 220. In the same speech he tells the Irish agents, that of... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1810 - 588 páginas
...many or few boroughs ; my council may consider the fitness, if I require it; but what if I had made forty noblemen, and four hundred boroughs, the more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer. But this complaint, as you made it, was preposterous, for in contending for a committee, before... | |
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What is it to you, whether I make many or few boroughs ; my council may consider the fitness, if I require it ; but what if I had made forty noblemen, and four hundred boroughs, the more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer. 
