The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons ...Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 |
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... wished that it might always be that which coincided most with the ideas of the bulk of the state , and the general sentiments of the people . In the southern parts of Great Britain , hierarchy was the established church , and in the ...
... wished that it might always be that which coincided most with the ideas of the bulk of the state , and the general sentiments of the people . In the southern parts of Great Britain , hierarchy was the established church , and in the ...
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... wished - for effect , and the excise was defeated of its object , the security of the revenue , and it should be found that the failure was owing to the fraudulent conduct of the manufacturers of tobacco and snuff , then they would only ...
... wished - for effect , and the excise was defeated of its object , the security of the revenue , and it should be found that the failure was owing to the fraudulent conduct of the manufacturers of tobacco and snuff , then they would only ...
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... wished that gentlemen had con- tented themselves with making their opposition to the bill in the manner they thought best , without obliquely conveying reflexions on the conduct of those who had acted differently . Mr. Henry Thornton ...
... wished that gentlemen had con- tented themselves with making their opposition to the bill in the manner they thought best , without obliquely conveying reflexions on the conduct of those who had acted differently . Mr. Henry Thornton ...
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... wished to remark was , that not only with respect to the increase of the army , but , in other in- stances , he had opposed expence , and tried to enforce eco- nomy , the surest means of aiding the revenue . The House divided : Yeas 70 ...
... wished to remark was , that not only with respect to the increase of the army , but , in other in- stances , he had opposed expence , and tried to enforce eco- nomy , the surest means of aiding the revenue . The House divided : Yeas 70 ...
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... wished to call to the recol- lection of gentlemen , that our first surprise did not originate last war in that quarter . It was a wise and happy preamble established by our ancestors in the mutiny bill , that it should assign as a ...
... wished to call to the recol- lection of gentlemen , that our first surprise did not originate last war in that quarter . It was a wise and happy preamble established by our ancestors in the mutiny bill , that it should assign as a ...
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Strona 115 - Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
Strona 234 - ... the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue...
Strona 285 - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, that he •will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this house...
Strona 183 - When that nameless thing which has been lately set up in France was described as "the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country...
Strona 14 - France are just the reverse of each other in almost every particular, and in the whole spirit of the transaction. With us it was the case of a legal monarch attempting arbitrary power ; in France it is the case of an arbitrary monarch, beginning, from whatever cause, to legalize his authority.
Strona 395 - Act, such person shall be at liberty to make his complaint thereof by appeal to the Justices of the Peace at the next general or quarter sessions of the Peace to be held for the county, riding, division, or place wherein the cause of such complaint shall arise, such appellant first giving to such Justices ten days...
Strona 234 - An Act to remove Doubts respecting the Functions of Juries in Cases of Libel. [AD 1792.] WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether on the trial of an indictment or information for the making or publishing any libel, where an issue or issues are joined between the king and the defendant or defendants, on the plea of not guilty pleaded, it be competent to the jury impanelled to try the same to give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue...
Strona 391 - Ye horrid towers, the abode of broken hearts ; Ye dungeons, and ye cages of despair, That monarchs have supplied from age to age With music, such as suits their sovereign ears, The sighs and groans of miserable men ! There's not an English heart that would not leap To hear that ye were fallen at last; to know That e'en our enemies, so oft employ'd In forging chains for us, themselves were free.
Strona 9 - Ramillies or Blenheims could never have done it. Were we absolute conquerors, and France to lie prostrate at our feet, we should be ashamed to send a commission to settle their affairs, which could impose so hard a law upon the French, and so destructive of all their consequence as a nation, as that they had imposed on themselves.
Strona 11 - When they had done this, they instantly, with the most atrocious perfidy and breach of all faith among men, laid the axe to the root of all property, and consequently or all national prosperity, by the principles they established, and the example they set, in confiscating all the possessions of the church. They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man...