Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl Chatham: And of the Principle Events of His Time; with His Speeches in Parliament, from the Year 1736 to the Year 1778. In Three Volumes, Volume 2J. S. Jordan, 1793 - Great Britain |
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... honour to himself , and advantage to the Nation , was profcribed at Court , and deserted in Parlia- ment . He was retired to Hayes -- to his ability , glory , and integrity - where this young Prince distinguished him , by the most ...
... honour to himself , and advantage to the Nation , was profcribed at Court , and deserted in Parlia- ment . He was retired to Hayes -- to his ability , glory , and integrity - where this young Prince distinguished him , by the most ...
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... honoured his Minister after his recovery , he took a paper out of his pocket , containing a speech to both Houses of Parliament , requesting a power to nominate a Regent , with a Council , in cafe of his death , before his fucceffor was ...
... honoured his Minister after his recovery , he took a paper out of his pocket , containing a speech to both Houses of Parliament , requesting a power to nominate a Regent , with a Council , in cafe of his death , before his fucceffor was ...
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... characters are fair and I am ( always glad when men of fair character en- gage in his Majesty's fervice . Some of ' them have done me the honour to ask my " ⚫ opinion СНАР . XXIX . 1766 . 1 · opinion before OF THE EARL OF CHATHAM . 38.
... characters are fair and I am ( always glad when men of fair character en- gage in his Majesty's fervice . Some of ' them have done me the honour to ask my " ⚫ opinion СНАР . XXIX . 1766 . 1 · opinion before OF THE EARL OF CHATHAM . 38.
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... honour to ferve the Crown , and if I could ⚫ have submitted to influence , I might have • ftill continued to ferve ; but I would not be < refponfible for others . -I have no local attachments ; it is indifferent to me , whe- ' ther a ...
... honour to ferve the Crown , and if I could ⚫ have submitted to influence , I might have • ftill continued to ferve ; but I would not be < refponfible for others . -I have no local attachments ; it is indifferent to me , whe- ' ther a ...
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... have been generally understood - I mean to the right . Some gentlemen ( alluding to • Mr. Nugent ) seem to have confidered it as a point of honour . If gentlemen confider • t " XXIX . it in that light , they • it 34 ANECDOTES AND SPEECHES .
... have been generally understood - I mean to the right . Some gentlemen ( alluding to • Mr. Nugent ) seem to have confidered it as a point of honour . If gentlemen confider • t " XXIX . it in that light , they • it 34 ANECDOTES AND SPEECHES .
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Page 53 - Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the house what is really my opinion. It is that the Stamp Act be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately.
Page 395 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 383 - Tis liberty to liberty engaged," that they will defend themselves, their families, and their country. In this great cause they are immovably allied: it is the alliance of God and nature — immutable, eternal — fixed as the firmament of heaven.
Page 33 - It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever.
Page 34 - Great Britain give and grant to your majesty, what ? Our own property ? No. We give and grant to your majesty, the property of your majesty's commons of America.
Page 445 - That God and nature put into our hands!" I know not what ideas that Lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know, that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity.— What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian...
Page 426 - As it is the right of parliament to give, so it is the duty of the crown to ask it. But on this day, and in this extreme momentous exigency, no reliance is reposed on our constitutional counsels!
Page 160 - Upon the present question I meet him without fear. The evidence which truth carries with it is superior to all argument; it neither wants the support nor dreads the opposition of the greatest abilities. If there be a single word in the amendment to justify the interpretation which the noble lord has been pleased to give it, I am ready to renounce the whole. Let it be read, my lords; let...
Page 446 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation. I call upon that right reverend bench, those holy ministers of the Gospel, and pious pastors of our church; I conjure them to join in the holy work, and vindicate the religion of their God. I appeal to the wisdom and the law of this learned bench to defend and support the justice of their country. I call upon the bishops...
Page 491 - Conquest; that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon? Surely, my lords, this nation is no longer what it was! Shall a people, that seventeen years ago was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, take all we have, only give us peace?