The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches of the Most Distinguished English, Irish, and Scotch Parliamentary Speakers, from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I. to the Present Time, Volume 2Thomas Kirk, 1809 - Great Britain |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 69
Page 18
... asserted the right of parliament to tax America . I know not how it is , but there is a modesty in this house which does not choose to contradict a minister . Even your chair , sir , looks too often towards St. James's . I wish ...
... asserted the right of parliament to tax America . I know not how it is , but there is a modesty in this house which does not choose to contradict a minister . Even your chair , sir , looks too often towards St. James's . I wish ...
Page 19
... asserted in as strong terms as can be devised , and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever ; that we may bind their trade , confine their manufac- tures , and exercise every power whatsoever , except that of taking ...
... asserted in as strong terms as can be devised , and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever ; that we may bind their trade , confine their manufac- tures , and exercise every power whatsoever , except that of taking ...
Page 24
... assert their privileges , and give you vote for vote . I leave it , there- fore , to your lordships , to consider the fatal effects which may arise in such a conjuncture as the present , either from an open breach between the two houses ...
... assert their privileges , and give you vote for vote . I leave it , there- fore , to your lordships , to consider the fatal effects which may arise in such a conjuncture as the present , either from an open breach between the two houses ...
Page 34
... . My noble and learned friend , ( the lord Chancellor ) has also pledged himself to the house , that he will support that assertion . My lords , the character and circumstances of Mr. Wilkes 34 [ A. D. 1770. - EARL OF CHATHAM .
... . My noble and learned friend , ( the lord Chancellor ) has also pledged himself to the house , that he will support that assertion . My lords , the character and circumstances of Mr. Wilkes 34 [ A. D. 1770. - EARL OF CHATHAM .
Page 58
... asserting " We had no right to interfere with the privileges of the other house . " The noble earl has been very exact in his calculations of the pro- portion of persons who have petitioned ; and did the affair rest merely on this ...
... asserting " We had no right to interfere with the privileges of the other house . " The noble earl has been very exact in his calculations of the pro- portion of persons who have petitioned ; and did the affair rest merely on this ...
Other editions - View all
The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches ... William Hazlitt No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
act of parliament America argument asserted begums bill boroughs Britain British Burke called character Chatham church of England civil civil list conduct consequence considered constitution corruption crown danger declared duke duty effect elected endeavour England equal established exchequer expence favour feel France give Hastings honourable gentleman house of Bourbon house of commons house of peers idea interest Ireland Irish volunteers judges justice king kingdom late legislature liberty lord Chatham LORD NORTH lordship majesty majesty's means measure member of parliament ment mind minister motion nabob nation nature necessary never noble lord object observed opinion parliament peace persons Pitt political present prince principles proceedings proposed prove question reason reform reign representation resolution respect revenue sentiments Sheridan shew situation slaves speech spirit test act thing thought tion trade trust truth vote whole wish
Popular passages
Page 346 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 299 - I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders...
Page 292 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Page 11 - House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented by any knight of the shire, in any county in this kingdom? Would to God that respectable representation was augmented to a greater number! Or will you tell him that he is represented by any representative of a borough ? a borough which, perhaps, its own representatives never saw! This is what is called the rotten part of the constitution.
Page 296 - ... their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made pack-horses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Page 299 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 300 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 297 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength, our opprobrium for their glory; and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom?
Page 10 - They are the subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural rights of mankind and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen ; equally bound by its laws, and equally participating in the constitution of this free country. The Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England.
Page 122 - that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.