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The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… desire not to create new differences, but to compose the old. 6. Your Lordships say, you are put to an ignoble Choice, …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… I cannot doubt but you will proceed in it with your old Alacrity. I am very well contented that you proceed in … have been more Pains and unusual Ways taken to kindle the old fatal Fears and Jealousies, than I thought I should ever …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… Who they were, and what they advis'd? A. 'There is an old Proverb, Mr Speaker, Over Shoes over Boots. This reflects …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… Papers, the discovering of such Transactions, might open old Sores, they might relate some way or another to the …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… Defence, as a well-disciplined, well-armed Militia was of old; and the Regard a Nation is to expect from its … depends now as much upon the former, as it depended of old upon the latter. 'Tis true, Regiments may be soon raised, … before it can expect to engage successfully against an old, well-disciplined Regiment; and even an old Regiment …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… own Heads, undertake to do that which even Parliaments of old would scarce have undertaken to have done. 'Tis true, … for what is now proposed; it is a full Confirmation of the old Proverb that What is every Man's Business is no Man's … an unanswerable Argument for our returning to the old Custom of Parliament, and appointing select Committees …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… of his Estate which stands appropriated for paying off old Mortgages, ought to inquire strictly into the Management … which was long since appropriated to the Payment of old Debts; and therefore we ought not to approve of any … upon a proper Inquiry, it would be found that we have many old Offices or Officers that might be spared, and many …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… 481,4000 0 0 14,442 3 0 Ditto made out for the Interest on old Bills exchanged, 2,200 0 0 Annuities at 3 l. 10s. per … Skin, 6 d. Goods imported. On every Negro above 10 Years old from America, 50 l. under 10 Years old, 5 l. except new Negroes who had not been six Months on …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… the Sinking Fund, which would enable us to pay off all our old Debts much sooner, than it will otherwise be possible for … reduced to 3 l. per Cent. and a much greater Part of our old Debt would have been paid, by which we should have been … that Fund which stands appropriated for the Payment of the old, I shall take the Liberty to make a Motion which I hope …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… it, we ought not to make any new Regulation or repeal any old, if by so doing we run the Risque of raising … the same Bill by which they took away or diminished their old, the Clause was agreed to without a Division. Debate … equal Duty with them: This of course gave the Alarm to our old Friends at Dunkirk, who foresaw that they could no longer …