The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two Houses of Parliament, 3. köide |
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... increasing the army by abolishing a plan which procured about 15,000 men annually , and by dismissing 6000 veterans ... increase the army , he must observe that we should stand worse with this plan , than with our three species of force ...
... increasing the army by abolishing a plan which procured about 15,000 men annually , and by dismissing 6000 veterans ... increase the army , he must observe that we should stand worse with this plan , than with our three species of force ...
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... increased pay which he calculated at 162,000l . a year . But the most gloomy part of the whole was the subject of the pensions ; for it would have very lit- tle effect as to the recruiting , and would be tremendous in point of expence ...
... increased pay which he calculated at 162,000l . a year . But the most gloomy part of the whole was the subject of the pensions ; for it would have very lit- tle effect as to the recruiting , and would be tremendous in point of expence ...
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... increase of pay was to be the consequence of seven years service , a still greater increase of fourteen years ; and further advantages were to be the reward of remaining twenty - one years in the service . Still , according to the noble ...
... increase of pay was to be the consequence of seven years service , a still greater increase of fourteen years ; and further advantages were to be the reward of remaining twenty - one years in the service . Still , according to the noble ...
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... increased - when his period of service was limited - when he had the prospect of returning to the en- joyment of his country's rights , that he would be less eager in her cause ! If that were really the case -- that when all the motives ...
... increased - when his period of service was limited - when he had the prospect of returning to the en- joyment of his country's rights , that he would be less eager in her cause ! If that were really the case -- that when all the motives ...
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... increasing the army , and yet be excessively bur- thensome to the country . The honourable gentleman ap- peared to him to have formed a very different idea of what was necessary for an army , than the right honourable gen- tleman ( Mr ...
... increasing the army , and yet be excessively bur- thensome to the country . The honourable gentleman ap- peared to him to have formed a very different idea of what was necessary for an army , than the right honourable gen- tleman ( Mr ...
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