 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 570 pàgines
...morals would of confequence be mended; and a confklerable fum of money might be raifed . for the fupport of the war, by mortgaging the revenue arising from the duty and the licences. Upon thefe maxims the new bill was founded, and palled, through the Lower Houfe without oppofition : but... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 582 pàgines
...They, therefore, pretended, that should the price of the liquor be moderately raised, [and licenses granted at twenty shillings each to the retailers,...mortgaging the revenue arising from the duty and the licenses. Upon these maxims the new bill was founded, and passed through the lower house without opposition... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1810 - 578 pàgines
...They, therefore, pretended, that should the price of the liquor be moderately raised, and licenses granted at twenty shillings each to the retailers,...mortgaging the revenue arising from the duty and the licenses. Upon these maxims the new bill was founded, and passed through the lower house without opposition... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1810 - 590 pàgines
...They, therefore, pretended, that should the price of the liquor be moderately raised, 'and licenses granted at twenty shillings each to the retailers,...mortgaging the revenue arising from the duty and the licenses. Upon these maxims the new bill was founded, and passed through the lower house without opposition... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1827 - 468 pàgines
...would accrue to the crown from a repeal of this act ; and this measure they thought they might the more decently take, as the law had proved ineffectual...had happened since the beginning of this parliament. 1743. The first assault it sustained was from lord Hervey, who " had been divested of his post of privy... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1836 - 984 pàgines
...They, therefore, pretended, that should the price of the liquor be moderately raised, and licenses granted at twenty shillings each to the retailers,...mortgaging the revenue arising from the duty and the licenses. Upon these maxims the ne w bill was founded, and passed through the lower house without opposition... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 540 pàgines
...They, therefore, pretended that, should the price of the liquor be moderately raised, and the licenses granted at twenty shillings each to the retailers,...mortgaging the revenue arising from the duty and the licenses."* Upon these principles the new bill was framed, proposing, in addition to the twenty shilling... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1844 - 986 pàgines
...They, therefore, pretended, that should the price of the liquor be moderately raised, and licenses granted at twenty shillings each to the retailers,...mortgaging the revenue arising from the duty and the licenses. Upon these maxims the new bill was founded, and passed through the lower house without opposition... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 516 pàgines
...imposed. They therefore pretended that, should the price of the liquor be moderately raised, and the licences granted at twenty shillings each to the retailers,...arising from the duty and the licences." Upon these principles the new bill was framed, proposing, in addition to the twenty-shilling licences, that a... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1848 - 566 pàgines
...would accrue to the crown from a repeal of this act ; and this measure they thought they might the more decently take, as the law had proved ineffectual...sum of money might be raised for the support of the CHAP. war, by mortgaging the revenue arising from the duty and the licences. Upon these maxims the... | |
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They, therefore, pretended that, should the price of the liquor be moderately raised, and licences granted at twenty shillings each to the retailers, the lowest class of people would be debarred the use of it to excess; their morals would of consequence... 
