Speeches in Parliament: Of the Right Honourable William Windham, Volume 2

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812
 

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Page 21 - ... last to be accomplished ; the primum mobile that originally set it in motion, and has since guided and governed all its movements.
Page 335 - Army : by which 1 mean, a class of men set apart from the general mass of the community, trained to particular uses, formed to peculiar notions, governed by peculiar laws, marked by particular distinctions ; who live in bodies by themselves, not fixed to any certain spot, nor bound by any settled employment; who
Page 32 - will ever cease, by night or by day, in peace or in war, to work their natural effect, to gravitate towards their proper centre; or that the bold, the proud, the dignified, the determined, those who will great things, and will stake their existence upon the accomplishment of what they have willed, shall not finally prevail over those who act upon the very opposite feelings; who will "never push their resistance beyond their convenience...
Page 50 - ... that there were evils and dangers, not less real and certain, in Peace, particularly in a Peace, made on such terms as the present. For terms of Peace, in spite of what we hear talked, have something to do with rendering our situation more or less secure, even in those respects, in which they are supposed to operate least. In general, though terms, however advantageous, would not secure us against the mischiefs of French fraternity, and the infusions of French principles and morals, yet they...
Page 33 - War are, generally speaking, to be comprised under three heads : the loss of lives and the consequent affliction brought upon friends and families; the loss of money, meaning, by that, money expended in a way not to be beneficial to the country that raises it; and the loss of money in another sense, that is to say, money not got ; by which I mean the interruption given to national industry, and the diminution of the productions thence arising, either by the number of hands withdrawn from useful labour,...
Page 124 - These lines, however bad the poetry, and however false the sentiment in its original application, were, he was sorry to say, perfectly descriptive of his opinion of His Majesty's present ministers.
Page 21 - What reason have we to suppose that they have renounced those designs, just when they seem to touch the moment of their highest and fullest accomplishment ? When there is but one country that remains between France and the empire of the world, then is the moment when we choose to suppose that all opposition may be withdrawn, and that the ambition of France will stop of its own accord. It is impossible not to see in these feeble and sickly imaginations, that fatal temper of mind, which leads men to...
Page 99 - ... circumstances, all consideration of objects, even of the highest consequence, in future. In this view it may be necessary to say a word or two, on the difference that must, for ever, subsist between troops of the line, and every other species of troops serving upon the footing of a Militia. It is as little pleasant to me, as to any other gentleman, to be making comparisons, that can rarely be satisfactory to both parties, and to be remarking perpetually to officers of the Militia, that, after...
Page 4 - ... generals or be they nations, are, to all intents and purposes, conquered! I know not what other definition we want of being conquered, than that a country can say to us, "-we can hold out, and you cannot; make Peace, '* or we will ruin you :" and that you, in consequence, * See Appendis A.
Page 329 - That an humble address be presented to his majesty, to represent to his majesty, that the editions of the works of our...

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