The Speeches of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Sketch of His Life, Band 1H.G. Bohn, 1842 - 548 Seiten |
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... amount , and the entire sum being vested in trustees , they laid it out in purchasing the estate of Polesden , in Surrey . At this period , during the debates on the treason and sedition bills , Sheridan , following the example of Fox ...
... amount , and the entire sum being vested in trustees , they laid it out in purchasing the estate of Polesden , in Surrey . At this period , during the debates on the treason and sedition bills , Sheridan , following the example of Fox ...
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... amount did not reach 20,000 . Among the converts to the question appeared Mr. Thomas Pitt and the Lord - Advocate of Scotland . The former made the house an offer of the voluntary surrender of his borough at Old Sarum . MR . SHERIDAN ...
... amount did not reach 20,000 . Among the converts to the question appeared Mr. Thomas Pitt and the Lord - Advocate of Scotland . The former made the house an offer of the voluntary surrender of his borough at Old Sarum . MR . SHERIDAN ...
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... amount have not been accounted for at all . " That it appears to this house to be of the utmost importance , that all public accounts should be brought forward with as little delay as possible ; and that therefore they do humbly beseech ...
... amount have not been accounted for at all . " That it appears to this house to be of the utmost importance , that all public accounts should be brought forward with as little delay as possible ; and that therefore they do humbly beseech ...
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... amount payable in the other ; and that all such articles should be exportable from the kingdom into which they shall be imported , as free from duty as any similar commodities , or home manufactures of the same kingdom . 12. That it is ...
... amount payable in the other ; and that all such articles should be exportable from the kingdom into which they shall be imported , as free from duty as any similar commodities , or home manufactures of the same kingdom . 12. That it is ...
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... amount of the net produce of the taxes for the quarters ending 5th of January , 1784 and 1785 ; and of those ending 5th of April , 1784 and 1785 , should be laid before the house . " He took an opportu- nity of ' observing , that the ...
... amount of the net produce of the taxes for the quarters ending 5th of January , 1784 and 1785 ; and of those ending 5th of April , 1784 and 1785 , should be laid before the house . " He took an opportu- nity of ' observing , that the ...
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able gentleman amendment answer appeared argument assertion begged leave Begums blue riband Britain British Burke called Chancellor charge civil list clause committee conduct considered constitution contended debate debt defence duty EAST INDIA BILL exchequer excise ground Hastings heard high bailiff honourable and learned house of commons India bill Ireland jaghires justice kingdom laws learned gentleman Lord John Cavendish Lord Mulgrave Lord North Lord Thurlow Majesty Majesty's manufacture means measure ment Middleton minister motion moved nabob necessary noble lord noes object occasion opinion papers parliament person Pitt present Prince principle proceeding proposed proposition prove question reason resolution respect revenue right honourable friend right honourable gentle right honourable gentleman royal Sheridan declared Sheridan observed SHERIDAN remarked SHERIDAN rose Sir Elijah Impey speech taken thought tion treasury treaty vote Warren Hastings whole wished words
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Seite 66 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end...
Seite 65 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Seite 65 - House; the continuance of the present ministers in trusts of the highest importance and responsibility, is contrary to constitutional principles, and injurious to the interests of his Majesty and his people.
Seite 222 - All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun;
Seite 235 - Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing unmixed; all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing . great but his crimes; and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster.
Seite 433 - Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm...
Seite vi - I will say more : flattered and encouraged by the right hon. gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption — to attempt an improvement on one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy, in the
Seite 418 - If I could not prove, my lords, that those acts of Mr. Middleton were in reality the acts of Mr. Hastings, I should not trouble your lordships by combating them ; but as this part of his criminality can be incontestably ascertained, I appeal to the assembled legislators of this realm to say whether these acts were justifiable...
Seite 235 - ... that concerned his employers. He remembered to have heard an honourable and learned gentleman (Mr. Dundas) remark, that there was something in the first frame and constitution of the company, which extended the sordid principles of their origin over all their successive operations ; connecting with their civil policy, and even with their boldest achievements, the meanness of a pedlar, and the profligacy of pirates.
Seite 306 - ... it in toto, in point of fact as well as law. The fact not only never could have happened legally, but nerrr did happen in any way whatsoever ; and had, from the beginning, been a base and malicious falsehood.