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The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… Laws of Excise. 'If Gentlemen will examine this Affair a little, they will find, that by adding the Laws of Excise to … must be much larger, and the Produce of the Duty very little superior now to what it it was in the Year 1723, we … prevail in this House, I am sure they will give but very little Satisfaction without Doors.' Mr Perry was opposed by …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… will find, that the Charge for next Year does but very little exceed that for last Year; and therefore, considering … so very small, the Manner of doing it so easy, and so little expensive, and the Necssity of doing it so evident and … this Army it seems is always to be augmented, whenever any little Quarrel happens between any two of our Neighbours, and …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… our Standing Army; but as our Militia was found to be of little or no Use after our Neighbours began all to keep up … should it succeed. 'If Gentlemen will only recollect a little the Roman History, they will find, that whenever … the Army continues in the State it is at present, there is little Danger to be apprehended from it, even should it have …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… when it was brought in and read the first Time, I was very little apprehensive, that we should have had any Debate upon … it would have been opposed, for as yet it can be called little more than a Blank; it cannot well deserve the Name of … Gentleman here knows to be often the Case of many of our little Boroughs in England. But, to say, that it would be any …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… holding of Parliaments; but that Gentlemen may recollect a little the Nature of those Parliaments, and the Rights and … many good Laws have passed in favour of the Subject, how little Reason have the People of England to be displeased … and had it not been for some Executions in Fleet-street, in consequence of that Act, I am persuaded it would …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… any great Faith, I begin now to be ashamed even of that little Confidence I put in them. I do not know indeed but … taken into Consideration to-morrow, without explaining a little the Nature of what is to be taken into Consideration; … have any Liberty in this Respect, surely we must examine a little into the Nature of the Message sent us, in order to …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… sent to the Lords for their Concurrence. The Lords were so little fond of this Bill, that apprehending it, or some other …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… however, if the Lords had pleased, they might, by a very little Amendment, have obviated the Objection they make to … out of a Corporation, tho' it entitles him perhaps to very little Profits or Trust, should be conformable; it is … and differ from the Church of England only in some little Forms, and therefore the Lords think loss of Office a …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… The first four Articles of the Treaty approved. Little was said in Answer to this Speech; only some Members …