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The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… who has the Honour to be a Member of this House. If we look into his Majesty's Speech, we there find that he has not … had subjected us to, our ambitious Neighbours will look upon us with Contempt, and will certainly conclude, that … to think so, I shall not pretend to determine; but as I look upon the Dutch to be a very wise People, I must either …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… Can France, or any Power on Earth, imagine that we will look tamely on, and see the Liberties of Europe overturned; … the Breaches are of such a Nature that if you but look upon them they will become irreparable; give us but a … Augmentation now proposed; it is so small that I cannot look upon it as designed to engage us in the War, but to …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… if they should find, that our Parliament were beginning to look closely into the Management of our publick Affairs, they … take the Motion to be of the utmost Consequence, because I look upon it as a Restraint designed to be put upon the … in Great Britain or Ireland, to detain or delay, open or look into, by any Means whatsoever, any Letter directed to, …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… other, in the strongest and most dutiful Manner. And as we look upon this, added to all the other Measures of Your … Year. 'Another Consideration, Sir, which ought to make us look the more narrowly into all publick Accounts, is the … those Estimates. I shall likewise grant that we ought to look narrowly into all Estimates laid before us, but when …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… But do not we know, Sir, that in all Countries, People look upon the publick Taxes as a Part of their yearly … for there will be such Numbers brought at once to look out for new Employments, that it will make it impossible … to a Prohibition: By this Method People will have time to look about them, and will get out of the Trade by Degrees; …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… should happen to be a sincere Dissenter: Therefore I must look upon this as a much higher Degree of Persecution, than … for all of whom I have the greatest Esteem, I must look upon this very Motion as a Beginning of that Attempt; … whatever Sum this Blank may be filled up with, I must look upon every Shilling of it, not as a Compensation, but as …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… by this Bill. 'To confirm what I have said, Sir, Let us look into the Accounts that are upon our Table, and from them … to the Proposition this Day made to us, which I must say I look on as a very extraordinary one; because it would … which must be preserved in our civil Union. Let them look upon the Structure of our Constitution in general; are …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… of Officers and Soldiers, who never had Occasion to look an Enemy in the Face, unless it was a Gang of Smugglers, … War to be cut off, there is no finding another that dares look a victorious Enemy in the Face, which is the Reason that … Will and Pleasure of the King. This may in Time make them look upon themselves as a Body of Men different from the rest …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… Submission but that he has himself been bred to, is apt to look upon every honest Freedom as a Mark of Disrespect or … had granted him a Fund for that Purpose. In short, Sir, look over all our Histories, examine all former Precedents, I … Lastly, Sir, it may be said, that such an Address would look something like a Parliamentary Resumption; that it would …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… an old Soldier, as often as they could find a clever, well-look'd young Fellow ready to list in his stead, tho' the old … dead and useless in his Majesty's Exchequer; which we must look on as a great Disadvantage to the Public, especially …