The Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Memoir of His Life, 4. köideJ. Ridgway & sons, 1836 |
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... considerations for a moment out of view , and wholly abstracting the transactions to which these affidavits related from the connection which had been endeavoured to be established between them and his noble friend , he would ask , was ...
... considerations for a moment out of view , and wholly abstracting the transactions to which these affidavits related from the connection which had been endeavoured to be established between them and his noble friend , he would ask , was ...
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... consideration of justice to his noble friend could have weight with gentlemen on the other side , was the conduct of the Government in Ireland ( if that were to be made matter of inquiry ) of such trifling import as to be thus ...
... consideration of justice to his noble friend could have weight with gentlemen on the other side , was the conduct of the Government in Ireland ( if that were to be made matter of inquiry ) of such trifling import as to be thus ...
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... considerations seemed to have been forgotten by the honourable and learned member . When he took his Pisgah retrospect of the session and its business , gazing at it as a land of pro- mise ( which , however , had not been , and in the ...
... considerations seemed to have been forgotten by the honourable and learned member . When he took his Pisgah retrospect of the session and its business , gazing at it as a land of pro- mise ( which , however , had not been , and in the ...
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... consideration of the poor laws had occupied a very large portion of the time and attention of Parliament , and though no immediate legislative measure had resulted from their labours , yet still the fruits of those labours had not been ...
... consideration of the poor laws had occupied a very large portion of the time and attention of Parliament , and though no immediate legislative measure had resulted from their labours , yet still the fruits of those labours had not been ...
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... consideration in some degree personally involves the members of Administration , it may be proper , to obviate the inference which might be drawn from our silence , that we shrink from a debate in which the pro- priety of our conduct is ...
... consideration in some degree personally involves the members of Administration , it may be proper , to obviate the inference which might be drawn from our silence , that we shrink from a debate in which the pro- priety of our conduct is ...
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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.