The Senator; or, Clarendon's parliamentary chronicle, Volume 18 |
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... respect to affairs on the Continent , a mail had , within a few hours of the moment he was speaking , arrived . The contents of which their Lordships would readily fee , from the nature of the thing , he could not now be prepared to ...
... respect to affairs on the Continent , a mail had , within a few hours of the moment he was speaking , arrived . The contents of which their Lordships would readily fee , from the nature of the thing , he could not now be prepared to ...
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... respect to the reft , I fhall propofe the new Loan , but I fhall leave it as a fubject for confideration on a future day , probably on Monday next . Having ftated this to the Commit- tee , I fhall now trouble them with the terms of the ...
... respect to the reft , I fhall propofe the new Loan , but I fhall leave it as a fubject for confideration on a future day , probably on Monday next . Having ftated this to the Commit- tee , I fhall now trouble them with the terms of the ...
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... respect to the Duties on Transfers of Perfonal Pro- perty , where ftamps may be neceflary to give it validity , there is no fubject of taxation which ought more freely to give a con- tribution to the public , than that which muft fall ...
... respect to the Duties on Transfers of Perfonal Pro- perty , where ftamps may be neceflary to give it validity , there is no fubject of taxation which ought more freely to give a con- tribution to the public , than that which muft fall ...
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... respect to the principle of this tax , it may be objected to on the ground of its being a great hardship to lay a burden on paffengers and the conveyance of goods ; but I hope when Gen- tlemen will confider how small a portion muft fall ...
... respect to the principle of this tax , it may be objected to on the ground of its being a great hardship to lay a burden on paffengers and the conveyance of goods ; but I hope when Gen- tlemen will confider how small a portion muft fall ...
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1 able Gentleman . The ftock in hand cannot , in any respect , be confidered as an annual tax , and , indeed , the Right Honour- able Gentleman feems , by the very arguments which he intro- duces in favour of that opinion , to admit ...
1 able Gentleman . The ftock in hand cannot , in any respect , be confidered as an annual tax , and , indeed , the Right Honour- able Gentleman feems , by the very arguments which he intro- duces in favour of that opinion , to admit ...
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Addrefs Adminiftration againſt alfo anfwer Bank becauſe Bill cafe caufe cauſe Chancellor circumftances Claufe Committee conduct confequence confidence confideration Conftitution courfe defire difcuffion duty Emperor enemy eſtabliſhed Exchequer Executive Government exifted expences expreffed faid fame feamen fecond fecurity fent fentiments fervice fhall fhew fhips fhould fince fituation fome France French Republic ftate ftill fubfcribers fubject fuch fufficient fuppofed fupport fure fyftem Government himſelf Houfe Houſe HOUSE OF COMMONS HOUSE OF LORDS impoffible increaſe inftance intereft itſelf laft lefs Loan Lord Lord Grenville Lord Malmesbury Lordships Majefty Majefty's meaſure ment Minifters moft moſt Motion muft muſt nation neceffary neceffity Noble obferved object occafion opinion oppofe paffed Parliament peace perfons poffible prefent preferve principle propofed propofition provifions purpoſe queftion reafon refolution refpect Reprefentation Right Honourable Gentleman ſhall ſtate ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought tion treaty uſed vote wifhed
Passagens conhecidas
Página xl - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance...
Página xxxii - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Página xli - The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me, a predominant motive has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.
Página xxxiii - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Página xli - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another: that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon, real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which...
Página xxxvii - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Página xli - The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations.
Página xl - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página xli - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world.
Página xxxv - States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them, of a policy in the general government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi...