Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 - 1809-10, Volume 61804 |
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... equal truth , has been given in this as in many other instances , that the powers of genius require not the plodding industry of common capacities . But whatever faci- lity a quick mind , eagerly bent on its favourite object , may give ...
... equal truth , has been given in this as in many other instances , that the powers of genius require not the plodding industry of common capacities . But whatever faci- lity a quick mind , eagerly bent on its favourite object , may give ...
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... equal footing ; and though nothing can be apprehended unfa- vourable to this country , during the present low circumstances of Ireland , it may have an operation , at a future time , highly preju- dicial to our domeftic industry . Each ...
... equal footing ; and though nothing can be apprehended unfa- vourable to this country , during the present low circumstances of Ireland , it may have an operation , at a future time , highly preju- dicial to our domeftic industry . Each ...
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... equal laws and a free consti- tution , I see no practicable means of compelling a residence , or re- moving the existing evil , under the present order of things . The proposed union will have an effect the very reverse of that on which ...
... equal laws and a free consti- tution , I see no practicable means of compelling a residence , or re- moving the existing evil , under the present order of things . The proposed union will have an effect the very reverse of that on which ...
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... equal terms ; such an offer never having been refused , we may easily sup → pose is eagerly accepted in this case , each party will lose his distinct firm , and the two houses become one . It is unnecessary to ask here , on which side ...
... equal terms ; such an offer never having been refused , we may easily sup → pose is eagerly accepted in this case , each party will lose his distinct firm , and the two houses become one . It is unnecessary to ask here , on which side ...
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... equal to 50l . per cent .; that is , a property accrues to the nation yearly by the employment of a given sum in trade equal to one half of that sum ; and that there- fore to draw , and spend money from such a source , must either be ...
... equal to 50l . per cent .; that is , a property accrues to the nation yearly by the employment of a given sum in trade equal to one half of that sum ; and that there- fore to draw , and spend money from such a source , must either be ...
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Page 276 - In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand: With looks unmov'd, he hopes the scaly breed, And eyes the dancing cork, and bending reed.
Page 8 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 288 - Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm...
Page 276 - The bright-ey'd perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the watery plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus...
Page 186 - Accordingly, on that day, he moved for leave to bring in a bill " for vesting the affairs of the East India company in the hands of certain commissioners, for the benefit of the proprietors and the public ;" and also a bill " for the better government of the territorial possessions and dependencies in India.
Page 190 - I cannot consider myself warranted to lay before the Prince of Wales an address purporting to invest his Royal Highness with powers to take upon him the government of this realm, before he shall be enabled by law to do so.
Page 282 - ... conversation to the ministry, who, provided the colonies would subject themselves, might after all, or might not, at their pleasure, make any alterations in the former instructions to governors, or propose in parliament any amendment of the acts complained of...
Page 288 - That it is the opinion of this committee, that his majesty is prevented, by his present indisposition, from coming to his parliament, and from attending to public business, and that the personal exercise of the royal authority is thereby, for the present, interrupted.
Page 297 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...
Page 306 - In 1801 appeared a splendid edition, from the press of Bulmer, of " the Tragedies and Poems of Frederick Earl of Carlisle, Knight of the Garter,