The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches of the Most Distinguished English, Irish, and Scotch Parliamentary Speakers ... with Notes, Biographical, Critical, and Explanatory, Volym 1William Hazlitt Prior and Dunning, 1810 |
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... Standing Army Duke of Wharton , on the Mutiny Bill - George the Second's Speech to his Parliament Mr. Shippen , on the Address on the Army - - Sir W. Wyndham , against the Address Lord Falmouth , on the Pension Bill Earl of Strafford ...
... Standing Army Duke of Wharton , on the Mutiny Bill - George the Second's Speech to his Parliament Mr. Shippen , on the Address on the Army - - Sir W. Wyndham , against the Address Lord Falmouth , on the Pension Bill Earl of Strafford ...
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... standing officers be employed in the king's house to reduce it to its ancient form , and not with sir Lionel Cranfield to divide a goose ; and that his shop - boys be not taken from his shops and placed in the green cloth ; that the ...
... standing officers be employed in the king's house to reduce it to its ancient form , and not with sir Lionel Cranfield to divide a goose ; and that his shop - boys be not taken from his shops and placed in the green cloth ; that the ...
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... standing it , did , by a message by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered to the house , require justice of you , his majesty hath since found nothing but protracting and delays . This his majesty holds not agreeable to the wisdom ...
... standing it , did , by a message by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered to the house , require justice of you , his majesty hath since found nothing but protracting and delays . This his majesty holds not agreeable to the wisdom ...
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... standing unsettled till we were arrived at that , the consequences would necessarily have been confusion , if that had not been settled . Yet there are not constituted hereditary lords , nor hereditary kings ; the power consisting in ...
... standing unsettled till we were arrived at that , the consequences would necessarily have been confusion , if that had not been settled . Yet there are not constituted hereditary lords , nor hereditary kings ; the power consisting in ...
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... standing senate , and as a number of men picked out to be legislators for the rest of their lives ; and if that be the case , my lords , they have reason to believe themselves our equals ; but , my lords , it is a dangerous thing to try ...
... standing senate , and as a number of men picked out to be legislators for the rest of their lives ; and if that be the case , my lords , they have reason to believe themselves our equals ; but , my lords , it is a dangerous thing to try ...
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Sida 150 - Levites: and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life : that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all. the words of this law and these statutes, to do them : that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left : to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Sida 402 - ... receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, according to the usage of the Church of England...
Sida 282 - Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
Sida 124 - For what do the enemy say? Nay, what do many say that were friends at the beginning of the Parliament ? Even this, that the members of both houses have got great places and commands, and the sword into their hands ; and, what by interest in Parliament, what by power in the army, will perpetually continue themselves in grandeur, and not permit the war speedily to end, lest their own power should determine with it.
Sida 252 - ... parricide. He that was guilty of parricide was beaten with rods upon his naked body till the blood gushed out of all the veins of his body; then he was sewed up in a leathern sack called a culeus, with a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown headlong into the sea.
Sida 154 - God is my witness, it liath been confirmed to me since, not "a day ago, that the King of Scots hath an Army at the " water's side, ready to be shipped for England. I have it " from those who have been eyewitnesses of it. And, while it " is doing, there are endeavours from some who are not far " from this place to stir up the people of this town into a "tumulting — what if I said into a rebellion?
Sida 124 - Therefore, waving a strict inquiry into the causes of these things, let us apply ourselves to the remedy ; which is most necessary. And I hope we have such true English hearts, and zealous affections towards the general weal of our Mother Country, as no Members of either House will scruple to deny themselves, and their own private interests, for the public good ; nor account it to be a dishonour done to them, whatever the Parliament shall resolve upon in this weighty matter.
Sida 249 - I think I see the present peers of Scotland, whose noble ancestors conquered provinces, overran countries, reduced and subjected towns and fortified places, exacted tribute through the greatest part of England, now walking in the court of requests, like so many English attornies ; laying aside their walking swords when in company with the English peers, lest their self-defence should be found murder.
Sida 424 - Then satires will be wrote by 'way of novels, secret histories, dialogues, or under some 'such title; and thereupon we shall be told, What!
Sida 317 - A standing army is still a standing army, whatever name it be called by. They are a body of men distinct from the body of the people; they are governed by different laws; and blind obedience and an entire submission to the orders of their commanding officer is their only principle.