The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler ; and W. Pickering, 1825 |
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Page 140 - America,*) for the time being." (9.) "And to the end that it may appear what service the ships so stationed shall perform, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the captain or commanding officer on board every such ship or vessel, shall keep a distinct and separate account, digested into proper columns, of the times when the said ship or vessel sailed out of port, when such ship or vessel came in, the service she was upon, together with the number of days cast up, that such ship or vessel...
Page 222 - Britain ? It is now too apparent, that this great, this powerful, this formidable kingdom, is considered only as a province to a despicable electorate...
Page 489 - ... till it was known in what expeditions it was to be employed, to what princes subsidies were to be paid, and what advantages were to be purchased by it for our country. I should rejoice, my Lords, to hear that the lottery by which the deficiencies ] of this duty are to be supplied was not filled, and that the people were grown at last wise enough to discern the fraud and to prefer honest commerce, by which all may be gainers, to a game by which the greatest number must certainly be losers. The...
Page 483 - ... to enforce it, so that perhaps its only defect may be that it will not execute itself. Nor, though I should allow that the law is at present impeded by difficulties which cannot be broken through, but by men of more spirit and dignity than the ministers may be inclined to trust with commissions of the peace, yet it can only be collected that another law is necessary, not that the law now proposed will be of any advantage. Great use has been made of the inefficacy of the present law to decry the...
Page 184 - That an humble address be presented to his majesty, to return him the thanks of this house, for his most gracious speech from the throne.
Page 219 - Sir, where they still remain. They marched to the place most distant from the enemy, least in danger of an attack, and most strongly fortified, had an attack been designed. They have, therefore, no other claim to be paid, than that they left their own country for a place of greater security.
Page 487 - ... earnestness, to quit a course of luxury by which his health and his intellects would equally be destroyed. The gentleman appeared convinced, and told him " that he would conform to his counsel, and thought he could not change his course of life at once, but would leave off strong liquors by degrees.
Page 491 - They well know, my lords, that they are unfversally detested, and that wherever a Briton is destroyed, they are freed from an enemy ; they have, therefore, opened the floodgates of gin upon the nation, that when it is less numerous, it may be more easily governed. Other ministers, my lords, who had not attained to so great a knowledge in the art of making war upon their country, when they found their enemies clamorous and bold, used to awe them with prosecutions and penalties, or destroy them like...
Page 417 - Our ministers will therefore have the same honour with their predecessors, of having given rise to a new fund ; not indeed for the payment of our debts, but for much more valuable purposes ; for the cheering of our hearts under oppression, and for the ready support of those debts which we have lost all hopes of paying. They are resolved, my Lords, that the nation which no...
Page 222 - ... of its money. That they have hitherto been of no use to Great Britain or to Austria, is evident beyond a doubt ; and therefore it is plain that they are retained only for the purposes of Hanover.