The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Parliamentary debatesW. Pickering, 1825 |
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Page 228 - Britain ? It is now too apparent, that this great, this powerful, this formidable kingdom, is considered only as a province to a despicable electorate...
Page 146 - ... the lord high admiral, or commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral for the time being, and shall also send duplicates of the said accounts at the first opportunity.
Page 137 - that the said petition be referred to the consideration of a committee of the whole House, and that the petitioners be heard by themselves before the said committee, if they think fit '
Page 423 - ... and to violate the rules of decency as well as of reason. For when did any man hear, that a commodity was prohibited by licensing its sale '. or that to offer and refuse is the same action...
Page 497 - ... till it was known in what expeditions it was to be employed, to what princes subsidies were to be paid, and what advantages were to be purchased by it for our country. I should rejoice, my Lords, to hear that the lottery by which the deficiencies ] of this duty are to be supplied was not filled, and that the people were grown at last wise enough to discern the...
Page 491 - ... to enforce it, so that perhaps its only defect may be that it will not execute itself. Nor, though I should allow that the law is at present impeded by difficulties which cannot be broken through, but by men of more spirit and dignity than the ministers may be inclined to trust with commissions of the peace, yet it can only be collected that another law is necessary, not that the law now proposed will be of any advantage. Great use has been made of the inefficacy of the present law to decry the...
Page 225 - Sir, where they still remain. They marched to the place most distant from the enemy, least in danger of an attack, and most strongly fortified, had an attack been designed. They have, therefore, no other claim to be paid, than that they left their own country for a place of greater security.
Page 499 - They well know, my lords, that they are universally detested, and that wherever a Briton is destroyed, they are freed from an enemy ; they have, therefore, opened the floodgates of gin upon the nation, that when it is less numerous, it may be more easily governed. Other ministers, my lords, who had not attained to so great a knowledge in the art of making war upon their country, when they found their enemies clamorous and bold, used to awe them with prosecutions and penalties, or destroy them like...
Page 423 - Ministers ; for though it is undoubtedly false, that this tax will lessen the consumption of spirits, it is certainly true that it will produce a very large revenue, a revenue that will not fail but with the people from whose debaucheries it arises. Our Ministers will therefore have the same...
Page 493 - ... that the number of distillers should be no argument in their favour ; for I never heard that a law against theft was repealed or delayed because thieves were numerous.