The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time ... Illustrated with a Great Variety of Historical and Explanatory Notes ... with a Large Appendix ...

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Página 191 - Houfe, read the firft Time, and order'd to be read a fecond Time.
Página 137 - To dwell on all the instances of partiality which have been shown, and the yearly visits which have been paid to that delightful country ; to reckon up all the sums that have been spent to aggrandize and enrich it, would be an irksome and invidious task — invidious to those who are afraid to be told the truth, and irksome to those who are unwilling to hear of the dishonour and injuries of their country.
Página 134 - Continent ; that there was any need of forming an army in the Low Countries ; or that, in order to form an army, auxiliaries were necessary. But, not to dwell upon disputable...
Página 135 - ... and by being oppressed with exorbitant taxes, levied by military executions, and employed only in supporting the state of its oppressors. They dwell upon the importance of public faith, and the necessity of an exact observation...
Página 135 - ... be told, that the money of this nation cannot be more properly employed than in hiring Hanoverians to eat and sleep.
Página 16 - Projeftors are always pleafed to call an Amendment, unlefs I have very fenfibly felt the Inconvenience of what is propofed to be amended. In the prefent Cafe, perhaps my Want of Feeling may proceed from my Want of Experience ; but young as I am, as I have the Honour to be a Member of this Houfe, I...
Página 137 - ... from the purchase of part of the Swedish dominions, to the contract which we are now called upon to ratify. I hope few have forgotten the memorable stipulation for the Hessian troops, for the forces of the duke of...
Página 135 - ... nor have any claim to be paid, but that they left their own country for a place of greater security. It is always reasonable to judge of the future by the past ; and, therefore, it...
Página 136 - I; but since we have not heard them mentioned in this debate, and have found, by experience, that none of the merits of that electorate are passed over in silence, it may, I think, fairly be concluded, that the distresses of the...
Página 11 - That an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty that he will be gracioufly pleafed to give directions that there be laid...

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