Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

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Page 1039 - It can not be doubted that the more complete our internal resources and the less dependent we are on foreign powers for every national as well as domestic purpose the greater and more stable will be the public felicity. By the increase of domestic manufactures will the demand for the rude materials at home be increased, and thus will the dependence of the several parts of our Union on each other and the strength of the Union itself be proportionably augmented.
Page 309 - That an humble address be presented to his majesty, that he will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this house, copies of...
Page 479 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 535 - Resolved, that it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom for any lord of parliament or other peer or...
Page 1037 - In adjusting the duties on imports to the object of revenue the influence of the tariff on manufactures will necessarily present itself for consideration. However wise the theory may be which leaves to the sagacity and interest of individuals the application of their industry and resources, there are in this as in other cases exceptions to the general rule.
Page 651 - To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
Page 547 - Old Chaucer, like the morning star, To us discovers day from far. His light those mists and clouds dissolv'd Which our dark nation long involv'd; But he, descending to the shades, Darkness again the age invades...
Page 1009 - ... shall misconduct himself, or shall not withdraw when strangers are directed to withdraw while the house, or any committee of the whole house, is sitting...
Page 319 - Baptist next coming, all and every person and persons, inhabiting within this realm, or any other the Queen's Majesty's dominions, shall diligently, and faithfully, having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be absent, endeavour themselves to resort to their parish church or chapel accustomed, or upon reasonable let thereof, to some usual place where Common Prayer, and such Service of God shall be used in such time of let, upon every Sunday, and other days ordained and used to be kept as...
Page 15 - I HAVE observed with deep Regret the continued Distress in the Manufacturing Districts of the Country. THE Sufferings and Privations which have resulted from it have been borne with exemplary Patience and Fortitude.

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