A Letter to the Earl of Lauderdale: Containing Strictures on His Lordship's Letters, to the Peers of ScotlandT. N. Longman, 1785 - 179 páginas |
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... rienced leaders of the party will fcarcely be dif- posed to bestow that commendation on your can- dour , which it certainly deferves ; at least , if we may be allowed to judge from the conduct of Mr. Fox , in a late debate , who ...
... rienced leaders of the party will fcarcely be dif- posed to bestow that commendation on your can- dour , which it certainly deferves ; at least , if we may be allowed to judge from the conduct of Mr. Fox , in a late debate , who ...
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... rienced at the variety of abfurd and extravagant plans , contended for by the different members , had foon induced him to withdraw himself from all fuch meetings . His Lordship drew with accuracy the line of diftinction between the quef ...
... rienced at the variety of abfurd and extravagant plans , contended for by the different members , had foon induced him to withdraw himself from all fuch meetings . His Lordship drew with accuracy the line of diftinction between the quef ...
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... the fhocks of fourteen centuries , -with what propriety can you refufe your belief to the ap- proaching ruin of an infant ftate , which has expe- rienced rienced a monthly deficit of more than eighteent millions fterling [ 175 ]
... the fhocks of fourteen centuries , -with what propriety can you refufe your belief to the ap- proaching ruin of an infant ftate , which has expe- rienced rienced a monthly deficit of more than eighteent millions fterling [ 175 ]
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Containing Strictures on His Lordship's Letters, to the Peers of Scotland John Gifford. rienced a monthly deficit of more than eighteent millions fterling ' ; and the fupport of whofe army and navy was represented , by its rulers ...
Containing Strictures on His Lordship's Letters, to the Peers of Scotland John Gifford. rienced a monthly deficit of more than eighteent millions fterling ' ; and the fupport of whofe army and navy was represented , by its rulers ...
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Página 40 - Yet would the village praife my wonderous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay gandfire, fk.il I'd in geftic lore, Has frilk'd beneath the burthen of threefcore.
Página 40 - To kinder fkies. where rentle manners reign, I turn; and France difplays her bright domain. Gay fprightly land of mirth and focial eafe; Pleas'd with thyfelf, whom all the world can pleafe; How often have I led thy fportive choir, With tunelefs pipe, befide the murmuring Loire ! Where...
Página 5 - Remember what our father oft has told us : The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors : Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search : Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends.
Página 24 - But, without recurring to such cases, what must have been the state of the poor people paying heavy taxes, from which the nobility and clergy were exempted? A cruel aggravation of their misery, to see those who could best afford to pay, exempted because able!
Página 24 - ... population, which brought beings into the world, in order for little else than to be starved. The corvees, or police of the roads, were annually the ruin of many hundreds of farmers ; more than 300 were reduced to beggary in filling up one vale in...
Página 24 - Cahiers call injuftice without example, were another dreadful fcourge on the peafantry; and, as married men were exempted from it, occafioned in fome degree that mifchievous population, which brought beings into the world in order for little elfe than to be ftarved. The...
Página 83 - If we had invaded Holland, we should have become masters of the Dutch navy ; the wealth of that country would have been blended with our own, her power added to that of France, the government of England would have been undone, and the revolution of Europe secured.
Página 43 - God may incline thi:ir fovereign to re-confider thefe meafures, and to permit in future things to go on in that channel to which for ages they had been accuftomed; and thereby prevent an alteration which could not but entail the moft ruinous confequences ; confcquences too eafily to be forefcen, both on the fovereign and on the people.
Página 76 - ... assistance of France. Nothing could be more foreign than this reproach to the sentiments of the National Convention, and to the explanation we have given of them; and we did not think it was possible we should be charged with the open design of favouring the seditious, at the very moment, when we declare that it would be wronging the National Convention, if they were charged with the project of protecting insurrections, and with...
Página 89 - believe themfelves free and fovereign, when " we made them take fuch an oath as we thought fit, " as a teft to give them the right of voting — when " openly defpifing their religious worfhip we pro...