The History of England, from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second: (Designed as a Continuation of Mr. Hume's History.)T. Cadell ... and R. Baldwin, 1804 |
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Side 45 - Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.
Side 15 - ... those grievances and abuses which had hitherto interrupted the commerce of Great Britain in the American seas ; and for settling all matters in dispute, in such a manner as might for the future prevent and remove all new causes and pretences of complaint.
Side 422 - ... permitted from time to time to view and examine the accounts of money, or value of money disposed of by virtue of laws made by them, which you are to signify unto them as there shall be occasion.
Side 352 - At length, however, it was floated through both houses on the tide of, a great majority, and steered into the safe harbour of royal approbation.
Side 275 - Commerce and manufacture flourished again, to such a degree of increase as had never been known in the island : but this advantage was attended with an irresistible tide of luxury and excess...
Side 317 - By this new law it was decreed that the new year should begin on the first day of January, and that eleven intermediate nominal days, between the second and fourteenth days of September, 1752, should for that time be omitted; so that the day succeeding the second should be denominated the fourteenth of that month.
Side 99 - British pay, without consulting the parliament, seemed highly derogatory to the rights and dignity of the great council of the nation, and a very dangerous precedent to future times: that these...
Side 47 - Sir, if any one instance had been mentioned, if it had been shown that I ever offered a reward to any member of either House, or ever threatened to deprive any member of his office or employment, in order to influence his vote in Parliament, there might have been some ground for this charge.
Side 350 - ... miscreants, the refuse of the clergy, dead to every sentiment of virtue, abandoned to all sense of decency and decorum, for the most part prisoners for debt or delinquency, and, indeed the very outcasts of human society, who hovered about the verge of the...
Side 244 - An Act to explain and amend an act made in the twenty-second year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, ' An Act for amending, explaining, and reducing into one Act of Parliament the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's ships, vessels, and forces by sea...