 | William Cobbett - 1820 - 888 pages
...come, when such unqualified acquiescence on our part was requisite ; when we were to cease to inquire what those securities were ; or when we ought to have...Here, Sir, I have nearly closed this subject. One only topic remains, a most important one indeed, but which I should have been induced, perhaps, on the present... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1820 - 884 pages
...securities, if securities they can be called, as are offered by the present treaty. The great misfort une has been, that this question of peace has never yet...Here, Sir, I have nearly closed this subject. One only topic remains, a most important one indeed, but which I should have been induced, perhaps, on the present... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 830 pages
...been able to comprehend the dangers which they were engaged in combating. If they had, we never should have heard, except among the ignorant and disaffected,...exultation through the land at a peace such as the present. When a great military monarch was at the lowest ebb of his fortunes, and had sustained a defeat which... | |
 | William Windham - 1837 - 678 pages
...in them, is a separate question, which I will not nowv discuss. But the time, in my opinion, was not come when such unqualified acquiescence on our part...Sir, I have nearly closed' this subject. One only topic remains, a most important one indeed, but which I should have heen induced, perhaps, on the present... | |
 | William Windham - 1837 - 694 pages
...them, is a separate question, which I will not now discuss. But the time, in my opinion, was not corne when such unqualified acquiescence on our part was...Here, Sir, I have nearly closed this subject. One only topic remains, a most important one indeed, but which I should have been induced, perhaps, on the present... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 882 pages
...been able to comprehend the dangers which they were engaged in combating. If they had, we never should have heard, except among the ignorant and disaffected,...through the land, at a peace such as the present. When a great military monarch was at the lowest ebb of hi a fortunes, and had sustained a defeat which... | |
 | 1845 - 698 pages
...in them, is a separate question, which I will not now discuss. But the time, in my opinion, was not come when such unqualified acquiescence on our part...Here, Sir, I have nearly closed this subject. One only topic remains, a most important one indeed, but which I should have been induced, perhaps, on the present... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1854 - 382 pages
...been able to comprehend the dangers which they were engaged in combating. If they had, we never should have heard, except among the ignorant and disaffected,...through the land, at a peace such as the present. When a great military monarch was at the lowest ebb of his fortunes, and had sustained a defeat which... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1860 - 702 pages
...been able to comprehend the dangers which they were engaged in combating. If they had, we never should have heard, except among the ignorant and disaffected,...exultation through the land at a peace such as the present. When a great military monarch was at the lowest ebb of his fortunes, and had sustained a defeat which... | |
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... what those securities were ; or when we ought to have taken up with such securities, if securities they can be called, as are offered by the present treaty. The great misfortune has been, that this question of Peace has never yet been fully and fairly... 