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Page 321 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 307 - Committee of the House of commons, appointed to inquire into the high price of gold bullion, &c.
Page 10 - I cannot conclude without expressing the gratification I should feel, if some of those persons, with whom the early habits of my public life were formed, would strengthen my hands, and constitute a part of my government.
Page 41 - Judgment shall have been had, shall be ; and in case Admission shall be refused or not obtained within a reasonable time after it shall have been first demanded, to enter by Force by Day...
Page 281 - Lordship should not propose to attend in person at the next general quarter sessions of the peace, to be holden in and for the county...
Page 200 - However solicitous the Prince Regent must be to see his most Christian Majesty restored to the throne, and however anxious he is to contribute, in conjunction with his allies, to so auspicious an event, he nevertheless deems himself called upon to make this declaration on the exchange of the ratifications, as well in consideration of what is due to his most Christian Majesty's interests in France, as in conformity to the principles upon which the British government has invariably regulated its conduct.
Page 259 - Though his success at the bar was not at all adequate to his merits, he yet stedfastly persevered in his labours, and seemed to consider it as essential to his independence, that he should look forward to his profession alone for the honours and emoluments to which his extraordinary talents gave him so just a claim. " In the course of the last twelve years the House had lost some of the most considerable men that ever had enlightened and adorned it : there was this, however, peculiar in their present...
Page 204 - But the reason of this was obvious ; the city and the territory of Venice had been transferred to Austria by the treaty of Campo Formio, but the horses had remained the trophy of France ; and Austria, while she was thus hypocritically reading this moral lesson to nations, not only quietly retained the rich and unjust spoil she had got, but restored these splendid works of art, not to the Venice which had been despoiled of them, the ancient, independent, republican Venice, but to Austrian Venice,...
Page 165 - Jekyl is deficient in almost every qualification necessary to discharge properly the duties of a Master in Chancery. If the Chancellor had meant to show with what deliberation he could make a bad appointment to a very important judicial office, and with how strong a sense of the impropriety of it he could surrender up to the Prince that patronage which it is a duty he owes to the Public to exercise himself, he could not have contrived matters better than he has done.
Page 75 - I certainly must object to it. That the treatment of the Princess was a matter of great public concern ; and that it appeared to me to be very unconstitutional for the Sovereign to advise with any persons but his Ministers, on any public matter. 9th, Tu. Mr. Grattan, in a committee of the House of Commons, moved For leave to bring in a Bill for the relief of the Catholics. The question was carried on a division, by a majority of sixtyseven ; and I had the satisfaction of voting in the majority.