Select Speeches of the Right Honourable William Windham, and the Right Honourable William Huskisson: With Preliminary Biographical Sketches, Volume 2 |
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... wish to allude to any particular part of his pub- lic conduct , lest such allusion should tend to create the slightest difference of opinion among those who are willing to do honour to his memory . When I speak of his great talents and ...
... wish to allude to any particular part of his pub- lic conduct , lest such allusion should tend to create the slightest difference of opinion among those who are willing to do honour to his memory . When I speak of his great talents and ...
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... wish to abstain from any thing like exaggeration . It was very rarely his lot to obtain what is usually termed popularity . But , if it be true , as it has often been remarked , that rarely high cha- racter and popularity are to be ...
... wish to abstain from any thing like exaggeration . It was very rarely his lot to obtain what is usually termed popularity . But , if it be true , as it has often been remarked , that rarely high cha- racter and popularity are to be ...
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... wish to avoid any thing which could tend to excite controversy , and to confine himself to those points upon which controversy was impossible . It was his wish to say something on those parts of his character which others might not have ...
... wish to avoid any thing which could tend to excite controversy , and to confine himself to those points upon which controversy was impossible . It was his wish to say something on those parts of his character which others might not have ...
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... wish to bring him ; -I mean , to matter of fact . But I deny that the continuance of that war was owing to the inadequacy of the representation . On the contrary , it was the wish of the people that that war should be begun , nor was ...
... wish to bring him ; -I mean , to matter of fact . But I deny that the continuance of that war was owing to the inadequacy of the representation . On the contrary , it was the wish of the people that that war should be begun , nor was ...
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... wish . If they have , why do they not declare it ? What is the political malady , what the grievance that is now complained of ? What evil has overtaken us , in consequence of this inadequate representation of the people ? Experience ...
... wish . If they have , why do they not declare it ? What is the political malady , what the grievance that is now complained of ? What evil has overtaken us , in consequence of this inadequate representation of the people ? Experience ...
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Page 563 - I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries and isthmus bordering on it as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
Page 390 - ... or to regulate the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade, or business, or the management thereof...
Page xxiv - JUSTUM et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida, neque Auster, Dux inquieti turbidus Adriae, 5 Nee fulminantis magna manus Jovis : Si fractus illabatur orbis, * Impavidum ferient ruinae.
Page 581 - ... poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society. The stationary is dull; the declining melancholy.
Page 550 - A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hour may lay it in the dust : and when Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate?
Page 247 - ... that this House will not alter the standard of gold or silver, in fineness, weight or denomination ;" an amendment which was carried by an overwhelming majority.
Page 424 - ... that, unfortunately, a policy, the very reverse of this, has been, and is more or less adopted and acted upon by the government of this and of every other country ; each trying to exclude the productions of other countries, with the specious and well-meant design of encouraging its own productions...
Page 336 - Mr. Montague, the then chancellor of the exchequer, proposed, and parliament adopted, the following resolution : — " That this House will not alter the standard of the gold and silver coins of this kingdom in fineness, weight, or denomination.
Page 426 - ... of revenue and partly for that of protection, that the prayer of the present petition is respectfully submitted to the wisdom of parliament ; the petitioners therefore humbly pray that the house will be pleased to take the subject into consideration, and to adopt such measures as may be calculated to give greater freedom to foreign commerce, and thereby to increase the resources of the state.
Page 424 - ... restrictive or prohibitory regulations are founded were followed out consistently, it would not stop short of excluding us from all foreign commerce whatsoever.