The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 |
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... cause his vast wings were not in motion , nor his prey flying dismayed under their shadow . - Such feelings are , happily , not natural . It is folly to expect what is unattainable , and no less so to reject or undervalue what we may ...
... cause his vast wings were not in motion , nor his prey flying dismayed under their shadow . - Such feelings are , happily , not natural . It is folly to expect what is unattainable , and no less so to reject or undervalue what we may ...
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... cause , if I were to be asked what was the nature and character of Mr. Fox's eloquence , I should answer , that it was only asking me in other words what I understood to be the nature and practical character of eloquence itself , when ...
... cause , if I were to be asked what was the nature and character of Mr. Fox's eloquence , I should answer , that it was only asking me in other words what I understood to be the nature and practical character of eloquence itself , when ...
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... cause of its being preserved and reverenced throughout the world , whilst principalities and powers , strangers to , or neglecting the grand secret of conservation , have been convulsed and overthrown . No man better understood the ...
... cause of its being preserved and reverenced throughout the world , whilst principalities and powers , strangers to , or neglecting the grand secret of conservation , have been convulsed and overthrown . No man better understood the ...
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... cause , in our own venerable constitution . This principle even strikingly distinguishes his speech , when in 1793 ... causes , through the lapse of many ages , to maturity ; a consti- tution which , therefore , mocks and puts to shame ...
... cause , in our own venerable constitution . This principle even strikingly distinguishes his speech , when in 1793 ... causes , through the lapse of many ages , to maturity ; a consti- tution which , therefore , mocks and puts to shame ...
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... cause of reform , when lost sight of that our whole history , from its begin- ning , has been a perpetual and gradual system of reformation . If all who mixed themselves with this delicate and momentous subject , had held this sound and ...
... cause of reform , when lost sight of that our whole history , from its begin- ning , has been a perpetual and gradual system of reformation . If all who mixed themselves with this delicate and momentous subject , had held this sound and ...
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Seite 333 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Seite 60 - ... colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice in such province or colony, it will be proper, if such proposal shall be approved by his Majesty...
Seite 258 - That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he will be graciously pleased to issue a Commission for inquiring into the defects, occasioned by time and otherwise, in the Laws of this realm, and into the measures necessary for removing the same.
Seite 287 - II. st. 1, c. 5, that no petition to the king, or either house of parliament, for alteration of matters established by law in church or state...
Seite 28 - An Act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom of coffee and...
Seite 354 - 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, copies of...
Seite 48 - An Act to discontinue, in such manner and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of goods, wares, and merchandize, at the town, and within the Harbour of Boston in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in North America...
Seite 36 - ... proper, if such proposal shall be approved by his Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament, and for so long as such provision shall be made accordingly, to forbear, in respect of such province or colony, to levy any duty, tax, or assessment, or to impose any...
Seite 313 - Attorney-general thought proper to proceed against the defendants as for a riot only." (These are the various instances in which, he says, the statute does not apply :) " But every insurrection which in judgment of law is intended agains* the person of the King, be it to dethrone or imprison him, or to oblige him to alter his measures of Government, or to remove evil counsellors round about him, — these risings all amount to levying war within the statute ; whether attended with the pomp and circumstances...
Seite 111 - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, that he will be graciously pleased to give directions that a monument be erected in the Cathedral Church of ST.