The Life and Corespondence of the Right Honble Henry Addington: First Viscount Sidmouth, Volum 1

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J. Murray, 1847
 

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Pàgina 280 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Pàgina 290 - ... the admission of the Catholics and Dissenters to offices, and of the Catholics to parliament, (from which latter the Dissenters are not now excluded) would, under certain conditions to be specified, be highly advisable, with a view to the tranquillity and improvement of Ireland, and to the general interest of the United Kingdom.
Pàgina 187 - It prohibited the Directors of the Bank from issuing any cash in payment until the sense of Parliament could be taken and measures be adopted for maintaining the means of circulation.
Pàgina 290 - He trusts your Majesty will believe, that every principle of duty, gratitude, and attachment, must make him look to your Majesty's ease and satisfaction, in preference to all considerations but those arising from a sense of what in his honest opinion is due to the real interest of your Majesty and your dominions. Under the impression of that opinion, he has concurred in what appeared to be the prevailing sentiments of the majority of the cabinet...
Pàgina 286 - If I violate it, I am no longer legal Sovereign of this country, but it falls to the House of Savoy.
Pàgina 270 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Pàgina 95 - Other Romans shall arise, Heedless of a soldier's name ; Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize, — Harmony the path to fame.
Pàgina 46 - House, and went through his first performance with an kdat which has not been equalled within my recollection. His name is Grey. He is not more than twenty-two years of age, and he took his seat, which is for Northumberland, only in the present session. I do not go too far in declaring that in the advantages of figure, voice, elocution, and manner, he is not surpassed by any one member of the House ; and I grieve to say that he was last night in the ranks of opposition, from whence there is no prospect...
Pàgina 54 - Wilberforce's absence, to the effect, " that the House would, early in the next session, proceed to take into consideration the circumstances of the slave trade.
Pàgina 151 - He was, he thought, the most fascinating companion he ever met with. He had a talent of improving a man's own sentiments, and returning them to him in a better dress, which Lord Sidmouth used to illustrate very happily by the following anecdote: — Once, he said, he dined at Pitt's with Dundas and Adam Smith, when the latter said to him after dinner, " What an extraordinary man Pitt is — he makes me understand my own ideas better than before."* This faculty Mr.

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