The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons, Том 3

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Сторінка 588 - As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Сторінка 540 - ... diabolical war. . . . The expense of it has been enormous, far beyond any former experience, and yet what has the British nation received in return ? Nothing but a series of ineffective victories or severe defeats — victories only celebrated with temporary triumph over our brethren whom we would trample down, or defeats which fill the land with mourning for the loss of dear and valuable relations slain in the impious cause of enforcing unconditional submission.
Сторінка 137 - November 30, it was refolved, that the houfe would the next morning refolve itfelf into a committee of the whole houfe, to confider of...
Сторінка 140 - Majefty, there be iffued and applied the fum of 40,000!. remaining in the receipt of the Exchequer' on the 5th day of April, 1781...
Сторінка 142 - Majefty, to make good the deficiency of the grants for the fervice of the year 1782.
Сторінка 296 - Motion being made, that an humble Addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, that he will be gracioufly pleafed to give Directions, that there be laid...
Сторінка 413 - Parliament, at his levee, on the subject of continuing the war; supposing that any remonstrance should be made on that score, what would the noble lord say ? ' Why, you know that this war is a matter of necessity, and not of choice ; you see the difficulties to which I am driven, and to which I have reduced my country ; and you know also that in my own private character I am a lover of peace. For what reason, then, do I persist, in spite of conviction ? For your benefit alone ! For you I have violated...
Сторінка 137 - North's claim for ,000 reduced to ¿£400,000. (Mr. Winter here read part of Lord North's speech). But there is another passage also relative to the renewal of the charter. "With respect to the renewal of the charter, he recollected one part of the offer made to government, which involved no inconsiderable ambiguity ; it was this : the Company demanded a full enjoyment of all their chartered rights.
Сторінка 645 - ... with reproaches ; and though some of them on many accounts have a title to much respect, yet even those so far forget all manliness of character, as to assail me with the most embittered eloquence in this house, when it was known that I could not be present to defend myself: now too that I am present, they know the advantage they derive from my being unendowed with qualifications for a popular...
Сторінка 134 - ... of this ftate, muft neceflarily belong to the public ; and confequently he was as clear as he was of any thing whatever, that the territorial pofleffions in India are the undoubted light and property of the crown and the people.

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