The Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Memoir of His Life, 4. köideJ. Ridgway & sons, 1836 |
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Page 174 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 40 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Page 407 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 155 - That an humble address be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to...
Page 221 - The King thinks it necessary, in consequence of the arrival of the Queen, to communicate to the House of Lords certain papers respecting the conduct of her majesty since her departure from this kingdom, which he recommends to the immediate and serious attention of this House.
Page 111 - Russell moved for a Committee of the whole House to take into consideration the state of Ireland.
Page 330 - As to cutting away the rotten boroughs, *' I am as much offended as any man at seeing so " many of them under the direct influence of the " crown, or at the disposal of private persons.
Page 407 - I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm.
Page 361 - Now, Sir, I should be curious to know which generation of our ancestors it is that the exercise of political influence in the elections of the present day, so lamentably disquiets in their graves.
Page 249 - Parliament— derogatory from the dignity of the crown, and injurious to the best interests of the empire.