Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

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Page 665 - ... and is hereby enacted and declared to be of the same force and effect, to all intents and purposes, in all courts of justice, and other places, where by law an oath is or shall be allowed, authorized, directed or required, as if such Quaker had taken an oath in the usual form...
Page 817 - Holy and Indivisible Trinity, " Their majesties, the emperor of Austria, the king of Prussia, and the emperor of Russia...
Page 237 - Ireland, as the case may be, of the member to whose election the petition relates, unless it question the return or election upon an allegation of corrupt practices, and specifically alleges a payment of money or other reward to have been made by any member, or on his account, or with his privity, since the time of such return, in pursuance or in furtherance of such corrupt practices, in which case the petition may be presented at any time within twenty-eight days after the date of such payment :...
Page 555 - I will resist it to the last gasp of my existence and with the last drop of my blood, and when I feel the hour of my dissolution approaching, I will, like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom.
Page 547 - Dominions ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
Page 663 - Berwick-upon-Tweed, who shall be required upon any lawful occasion to take an oath in any case...
Page 799 - That the law of nations is a part of the law of the land, and that, neutral nations, not interposing in the war between his majesty and his enemies, have a legal right to such freedom of commerce and navigation, as is secured to them by the law of nations.
Page 665 - That in all cases where any justice or justices of the peace, is or are, or shall be, required or empowered by any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force, or hereafter to be made...
Page 93 - Gentlemen of the House of Commons, — I have directed the estimates for the service of the year to be laid before you : they will be framed with the most anxious attention to all useful economy.
Page 91 - ... to Holland and Belgium a separate existence on principles of mutual security and independence. The good faith and honour with which the French government has acted in these transactions, and the assurances which I continue to receive from the chief powers of Europe of their friendly disposition, give me confidence in the success of my endeavours to preserve the general peace. I have given directions that the various papers which are necessary for your information on the affairs of Holland and...

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