The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons [and of the House of Lords] Containing an Account of the Interesting Speeches and Motions ... During the 1st Session of the 14th [-18th] Parliament of Great BritainJ. Almon, 1792 - Great Britain |
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Page 237 - In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the Most Serene and Most Potent Prince, George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Arch-Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c...
Page 310 - Rather bear the ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 45 - Addrefs accordingly, which they had directed him to report to the Houfe ; and he read the fame in his place, and afterwards delivered it in at the table, where the fame was read and agreed to by the Houfe.
Page 318 - ... and effrontery, in offering to bring such a power as Russia to terms. Such as you and some other trivial Christians united fancy yourselves equal to command ; we know better, and therefore this effrontery of yours amounts rather to audacity, and to an imbecile dictation, which must render your councils at home mean and contemptible, and your advice abroad unworthy of...
Page 373 - The house of commons only approved it." -Is he asked why he gave up the object of the armament, after he had made it ? "I did not give it up !" he exclaims. " I think the same of its necessity as ever. It is the house of commons that gives it up. It is the house that supports the nation in their senseless clamour against my measures. It is to this house that you must look for the shame and guilt of your disgrace.
Page 111 - Majefty, with the two feparate articles thereto annexed, and of which they form a part, as alfo with all the claufes, conditions, and ftipulations which are therein contained, was concluded by the mediation of his Imperial and RoyalApoftolic Majefty.
Page 375 - ... manners, ripened by habit and experience, had confirmed the flattering promise of his youth. Did they think that the shabbiness of their message was to be done away by the worth of the messenger ? If I were to send a humiliating apology to any person, would it change its quality by being...
Page 355 - House stood forth against the monstrous measure of involving the country without unfolding the reason. The minister proudly and obstinately refused, and called on the majority to support him. We gave our opinion at large on the subject, and with effect, as it turned out, on the public mind. On that...
Page 382 - I can easily defend it ; but when they recur to these facts, and show me how we may be doomed to all the horrors of war by the caprice of an individual who will not even condescend to explain his reasons, I can only fly to this House, and exhort you to rouse from...
Page 245 - That an humble addrefs be prefented to his majefty, that he will be gracioufly pleafed to give directions...