The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: Parliamentary debatesTalboys and Wheeler, 1825 |
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Page 142 - Purpose by the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral...
Page 146 - America'1,) for the time being*. (9.) " And to the end that it may appear what service the ships so stationed shall perform, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the captain or commanding oflicer on board every such ship or vessel, shall keep a distinct and separate account, digested into proper columns, of the times when the said ship or vessel sailed out of port, when such ship or vessel came in, the service she was upon, together with the number of days cast up, that such ship or vessel...
Page 228 - Britain? It is now too apparent, that this great, this powerful, this formidable kingdom, is considered only as a province to a despicable electorate; and that, in consequence of a scheme formed long ago, and invariably pursued, these troops are hired only to drain this unhappy nation of its money.
Page 421 - ... drink spirits are drunk before they are well aware that they are drinking, the effects of this law shall be perceived before we know that we have made it. Their intent is, to give us a dram of policy, which is to be swallowed before it is tasted, and which, when once it is swallowed, will turn our heads.
Page 497 - ... till it was known in what expeditions it was to be employed, to what princes subsidies were to be paid, and what advantages were to be purchased by it for our country. I should rejoice, my Lords, to hear that the lottery by which the deficiencies ] of this duty are to be supplied was not filled, and that the people were grown at last wise enough to discern the fraud and to prefer honest commerce, by which all may be gainers, to a game by which the greatest number must certainly be losers. The...
Page 491 - ... to enforce it, so that perhaps its only defect may be that it will not execute itself. Nor, though I should allow that the law is at present impeded by difficulties which cannot be broken through, but by men of more spirit and dignity than the ministers may be inclined to trust with commissions of the peace, yet it can only be collected that another law is necessary, not that the law now proposed will be of any advantage. Great use has been made of the inefficacy of the present law to decry the...
Page 494 - ... havoc, and to interpose, while it is yet in our power to stop the destruction. So little, my lords, am I affected with the merit of...
Page 490 - ... find myself at the same distance from conviction as when I first entered the House. In vindication of this bill, my Lords, we have been told that the present law is ineffectual ; that our manufacture is not to be destroyed, or not this year; that the security offered by the...
Page 190 - That an humble address be presented to his majesty, to return him the thanks of this house, for his most gracious speech from the throne.