The History, Debates, and Proceedings of Both Houses of Parliament of Great Britain from the Year 1743 to the Year 1774: Containing the Most Interesting Motions, Speeches, Resolutions, Reports, Petitions, Evidence, Protests and Papers, Laid Before Either House; Together with the Supplies and Ways and Means of Each Session; Also Lists of Each Parliament, and of the Divisions Upon the Most Important Questions; in Seven Volumes, Volumen 7J. Debrett, 1792 |
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... Province of the Maffachufet's Bay , in New England , " which occafioned feveral long and warm debates . But the Lords ftill keeping their House shut , and not even admitting the Members of the House of Commons , unless to deliver Bills ...
... Province of the Maffachufet's Bay , in New England , " which occafioned feveral long and warm debates . But the Lords ftill keeping their House shut , and not even admitting the Members of the House of Commons , unless to deliver Bills ...
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... Province of the Maffachufet's Bay , in New Eng- land ; " and for the Lords to be fummoned ; The faid Bill was accordingly read the third time . Moved , That the Bill , with the amendments , do pass , Which being objected to , After a ...
... Province of the Maffachufet's Bay , in New Eng- land ; " and for the Lords to be fummoned ; The faid Bill was accordingly read the third time . Moved , That the Bill , with the amendments , do pass , Which being objected to , After a ...
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... province , will not reconcile the minds of the people to that mode of government which is to be established upon its ruins . 3dly , Becaufe Lords are not in a fituation to determine how far the regulations of which this Bill is compofed ...
... province , will not reconcile the minds of the people to that mode of government which is to be established upon its ruins . 3dly , Becaufe Lords are not in a fituation to determine how far the regulations of which this Bill is compofed ...
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... provinces , who fhould be most dutiful and forward in their expreffions of loyalty to their royal benefactor : as you will readily perceive by the following extract of a letter from Governor Bernard to a noble Lord then in office ...
... provinces , who fhould be most dutiful and forward in their expreffions of loyalty to their royal benefactor : as you will readily perceive by the following extract of a letter from Governor Bernard to a noble Lord then in office ...
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... province in a thoufand diffi- culties , and in the worst of defpotifm , and put the whole peo- ple under arbitrary power ; that it was a moft cruel , oppreffive , and odious meafure , tearing up juftice and every good prin- ciple by the ...
... province in a thoufand diffi- culties , and in the worst of defpotifm , and put the whole peo- ple under arbitrary power ; that it was a moft cruel , oppreffive , and odious meafure , tearing up juftice and every good prin- ciple by the ...
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Página 154 - Sir, let the gentlemen on the other side call forth all their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made pack-horses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Página 155 - Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities : one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. — The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating any.
Página 149 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Página 155 - Reflect how you are to govern a people, who think they ought to be free and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience...
Página 125 - You are therefore at this moment in the awkward situation of fighting for a phantom, a quiddity, a thing that wants, not only a substance, but even a name ; for a thing which is neither abstract right nor profitable enjoyment.
Página 150 - In truth, Sir, he was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm of every private society which he honoured with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of a more pointed and finished wit ; and (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment.
Página 199 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them, in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Página 155 - I look, I say, on the imperial rights of Great Britain, and the privileges which the colonists ought to enjoy under these rights, to be just the most reconcilable things in the world.
Página 135 - With a masculine understanding," and a stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy...
Página 135 - Our little party differences have been long ago composed ; and I have acted more with him, and certainly with more pleasure with him, than ever I acted against him. Undoubtedly Mr. Grenville was a first-rate figure in this country. With a masculine understanding...