Memoirs of the Public Life and Administration of the Right Honourable, the Earl of Liverpool

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Saunders and Otley, 1827 - 649 pages
 

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Page 391 - irritation. On the meeting of Congress on .the 4th of November, President Maddison announced " the necessity of putting the United States into an armour and attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectation
Page 132 - personally Mr. Pitt's first wish to be released from a situation, which he is conscious that, under such circumstances, he could not continue to fill but with the greatest disadvantage. At the same time, after the gracious intimation which ha* been recently conveyed to him, of your Majesty's sentiments on this point,
Page 40 - seventy or eighty thousand persons annually from their native land, by a combination of the most civilized nations, inhabiting the most enlightened quarter of the globe, but more especially under the sanction of the laws of that nation, which calls herself the most free and
Page 321 - never occur to them that a state of war existed between Spain and Great Britain. They should proceed upon the principle, that any nation who started up with a determination to oppose a power, which, whether professing insidious peace or declaring open war, was the common enemy of all nations—whatever might be the existing political relations of that nation with Great
Page 139 - in common use,—'the Emancipation of the Catholics,' or ' Catholic Emancipation.' He had never understood the situation of the Catholics to be such ; he did not then understand it to be such, as that any relief from it could be correctly so described; but he thought the few remaining benefits of which they had not yet
Page 129 - which have been required in Great Britain, and still more by one of those required in Ireland, as the condition of the indulgences already granted, and which might equally be made the condition of any new ones:—that if such an K 2
Page 31 - indeed, in any country which had once arrived at an advanced state of commercial prosperity." Simple and obvious as this principle was, and felt and observed as it must have been, in a greater or less degree, even from the earliest periods,
Page 447 - of the interest of the excess of the said loan or other addition, beyond the sum so estimated to be applicable, shall be set apart out of the monies composing the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain, and shall be issued at the receipt of the Exchequer to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to be by 2 G 2
Page 532 - question to be argued on the second reading. Their Lordships were not bound to regulate their proceedings on a measure of which they could know nothing, except through the medium of the votes of the House of Commons. On the second reading of the bill, the Earl of
Page 564 - No. He might go to the east, or to the west, to the north, or to the south, and find climates of more genial influence, lands of much richer

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