The Political Progress of Britain: Or, An Impartial History of Abuses in the Government of the British Empire, in Europe, Asia, and America: From the Revolution, in 1688, to the Present Time: the Whole Tending to Prove the Ruinous Consequences of the Popular System of Taxation, War, and Conquest. : [One Line of Quotation]. Part firstPrintedby and for Richard Folwell, no. 33, Mulberry-Street., 1795 - 96 стор. |
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Сторінка 62 - Poverty, though it no doubt discourages, does not always prevent marriage. It seems even to be favourable to generation. A half-starved Highland woman frequently bears more than twenty children, while a pampered fine lady is often incapable of bearing any, and is generally exhausted by two or three.
Сторінка 74 - There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for by the church boxes, with others, who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door.
Сторінка 43 - one of those divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the historians of the last age, and its best authors, represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman, as a...
Сторінка 101 - Hesse 100,000/., and the czarina 150,000/., to be off from these bad bargains, and not suffer the suggestions so dangerous to his own quiet and the safety of his family to be thrown out, which would, and must be insisted upon in a debate of this nature ? Where would be the harm of it ? The duke had nothing to say, but desired they might talk it over with the chancellor; Mr Pitt replied, he was at their command, though nothing could alter his opinion.
Сторінка 106 - The procession began, and (except the lords appointed to hold the pall and attend the chief mourner, and those of his own domestics) when the attendants •were called in their ranks, there was not one English lord, not one bishop, and only one Irish lord...
Сторінка 91 - Lordships, the defendant was by law incapable at the time of his pretended election; and it is my firm persuasion that he was chosen because he was incapable. If he had been capable, he had not been chosen, for they did not want him to serve the office.
Сторінка 78 - Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is their interest to go to war. Were the money which it has cost to gain, at the close of a long war, a little town, or a little territory, the right to cut wood here, or to catch fish there, expended in improving what they already possess, in making roads, opening rivers, building ports, improving the arts, and finding employment for their idle poor, it would render them much stronger,...
Сторінка 107 - But, at the same time, the rigour and arbitrary proceedings of excise laws seem hardly compatible with the temper of a free nation. For the frauds that might be committed in this branch of the revenue, unless a strict watch is kept, make it necessary, wherever it is established, to give the officers a power of entering and searching the houses of such as deal in exciseable commodities, at any hour of the day, and in many cases, of the night likewise.
Сторінка 18 - There is a set of men, my Lords, in the city of London, who are known to live in riot and luxury upon the plunder of the ignorant, the innocent, the helpless — upon that part of the community which stands most in need of, and best deserves the care and protection of the Legislature. To me, my...
Сторінка 62 - ... destroy altogether, the powers of generation. But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing, of children. The tender plant is produced ; but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies. It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland, for a mother who has born twenty children not to have two alive.