Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated Orators of America, Ireland, and England, Volume 4

E.C. & J. Biddle, 1845 - Great Britain

Contents

• Parliamentary Reform Page: 1
• Habeas Corpus Suspension Act: 12
• Tax on Dogs: 21
• Monastic Institution Bill: 39
• Army of Reserve 77: 77
• Defence of the Country: 93
• Additional Force Bill: 112
• Mr Pitts Funeral: 125
• Mr Pitts Debts: 131
• Campaign in Spain: 141
• Conduct of the Duke of York: 151
• Mr Curwens Reform Bill 178 and: 212
• Walcheren Expedition: 230

Popular passages

Page 581 - I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries and isthmus bordering on it as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.

Page 408 - ... or to regulate the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade, or business, or the management thereof...

Page 43 - Declaration, passed the House of Commons but was rejected by the House of Lords, and so the matter stands.

Page 568 - A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hour may lay it in the dust : and when Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate?

Page 580 - We begin to broach the idea that we consider the whole Gulf Stream as of our waters, in which hostilities and cruising are to be frowned on for the present, and prohibited so soon as either consent or force will permit us.

Page 443 - States have assailed their respective Governments with applications for further protective or prohibitory duties and regulations, urging the example and authority of this country, against which they are almost exclusively directed, as a sanction for the policy of such measures. And certainly, if the reasoning upon which our restrictions have been defended is worth anything, it will apply in behalf of the regulations of foreign States against us.

Page 442 - Government of this and of every other country, each trying to exclude the productions of other countries, with the specious and well meant design of encouraging its own productions, thus inflicting on the bulk of its subjects who are consumers, the necessity of submitting to privations in the quantity or quality of commodities...

Page 354 - Mr. Montague, the then chancellor of the exchequer, proposed, and parliament adopted, the following resolution : — " That this House will not alter the standard of the gold and silver coins of this kingdom in fineness, weight, or denomination.

Page 443 - That, independent of the direct benefit to be derived by this country on every occasion of such concession or relaxation, a great incidental object would be gained, by the recognition of a sound principle or standard, to which all subsequent arrangements might be referred ; and by the salutary influence which a promulgation of such just views by the Legislature, and by the Nation at large, could not fail to have on the policy of other States.

Page 151 - House, appointed to investigate the Conduct of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief, with regard to Promotions, Exchanges and Appointments to Commissions in the Army and Staff of the Army, and in raising Levies for the Army, 1809.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated Orators of America, Ireland, and England, Volume 4; Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated Orators of America, Ireland, and England
• Publisher: E.C. & J. Biddle, 1845
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 6, 2006