Debates Relative to the Affairs of Ireland: In the Years 1763 and 1764, Volume 11766 - Great Britain - 850 pages Like their counterparts in the North Americna colonies, the Irish questioned the validity of the Navigation Acts imposed at the end of the Seven Years' War. The debates in the Irish Parliament recorded in these volumes offer a perspective on the debates in North America. In the end Ireland accepted the acts, a factor in its growing resentment of Great Britain. |
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... Person , royal Family , and Go- vernment , humbly beg Leave to affure your Majefty , that we shall be always ready to give your Majesty every convincing Proof of our Loyalty and Zeal for the Support of your Majefty's Crown and Dignity ...
... Person , royal Family , and Go- vernment , humbly beg Leave to affure your Majefty , that we shall be always ready to give your Majesty every convincing Proof of our Loyalty and Zeal for the Support of your Majefty's Crown and Dignity ...
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... Person who should claim a Right to infer an Acquiefcence of that House to any one Point , from an Expreffion in an Address as the Words in Question therefore were juftified by incontestible and repeated Precedents , and as changing them ...
... Person who should claim a Right to infer an Acquiefcence of that House to any one Point , from an Expreffion in an Address as the Words in Question therefore were juftified by incontestible and repeated Precedents , and as changing them ...
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... Persons , in Offices or Employments , to qualify them- felves , pursuant to an Act to prevent the far- ther Growth of Popery . Ordered that Leave be given to bring in the Heads of fuch a Bill . Mr S Mr H L As Liberty is the common Birth ...
... Persons , in Offices or Employments , to qualify them- felves , pursuant to an Act to prevent the far- ther Growth of Popery . Ordered that Leave be given to bring in the Heads of fuch a Bill . Mr S Mr H L As Liberty is the common Birth ...
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... the Treasury unapplied , and , for which , there was no call ; many Persons affected great Fears , that it would be unconstitutionally disposed of . Some of the Family of the Jobbs , are still DAY VIII . ] Affairs of IRELAND . 139.
... the Treasury unapplied , and , for which , there was no call ; many Persons affected great Fears , that it would be unconstitutionally disposed of . Some of the Family of the Jobbs , are still DAY VIII . ] Affairs of IRELAND . 139.
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... Person who had a Suit depending in it . I am now extremely forry to say that this Court , great and refpectable as it is known to have been , has loft its Dignity , and fallen into Con- tempt , an Event equally unhappy and una- voidable ...
... Person who had a Suit depending in it . I am now extremely forry to say that this Court , great and refpectable as it is known to have been , has loft its Dignity , and fallen into Con- tempt , an Event equally unhappy and una- voidable ...
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Addreſs affure againſt alfo alſo anſwer appointed becauſe befides beſt Buſineſs Cafe Cauſe Committee Confequence confider Confideration Conftitution Country Court Crown DAY XI defire Duty Enquiry Eſtabliſhment Exchequer Expence exprefs faid fame Favour fent fhall fhew fince firſt fome forry ftill fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofed furely granted greateſt Happineſs higheſt himſelf honourable Gentleman Houfe Houſe impoffible Increaſe Induſtry inſtead Intereft Ireland itſelf JOBB Judges Juftice juſt Kingdom laſt leaſt lefs leſs Majefty Majefty's Manufacture Meaſure ment Minifter moft Money moſt Motion muft muſt myſelf neceffary notwithſtanding Number obſerve Occafion Officers Opinion ourſelves paffed Parliament Penfions Perfons perfuaded Petition pleaſed Pleaſure Power prefent pretend proper propoſed Purpoſe Queſtion R-t H-ble raiſed Reaſon redreſs Refolution Reſpect Revenue ſaid ſay ſeems Seffions Senfe Senſe ſhall ſhould ſpoke laft ſtill ſuch ſuppoſed thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought tion Treaſury uſed Vice-Treaſurers whofe whoſe
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Page 140 - ... character and qualifications. Self-interest was the father by whom Public Spirit has a numerous issue, distinguished by the name of Job. Many of them have come over hither from a neighbouring kingdom, and have with great success played both upon our weakness and our virtues. They very often assume their mother's name, and pretend that their father was Integrity, a gentleman of very honourable descent, who, having of late times been much neglected by persons of power and interest, has fallen into...
Page 9 - the minds of the lower order of people early habits of indultry, and true principles of religion...
Page 41 - Advantage, may be furmounted by the Minifter, merely in confequence of his being in a Situation which will make it worth his while to offer greater. Time for this iniquitous Compact is alfo abundantly allowed, which, whatever might be the Inclination and Intereft of the Parties, would not be the Cafe, if Parliaments...
Page vi - Profeffion, and almoft in every Art, who had been preferred to eminent Stations merely by their Merit, having entered the Country under all the Difadvantages of Aliens, without Money, and without Friends.
Page 40 - III. in fuch a Manner as to make it impoffible for thofe who love Darknefs rather than Light, to fuppofe, or even pretend to fuppofe, the Light does not fhine, and that the Figure and Colour of the Objects it makes vifible, are the mere Illufions of Fancy. To drop the Metaphor...
Page 35 - Folly, facrifices the many to the few, does, in fact, facrifice the few with the many ; and does nothing more than involve thofe for whom he is willing to betray his Country, in the Ruin which his Treachery is bringing upon it ; the Tool of Court Faction is, like thofe who employ him, the Dupe of his ownCunning, and the Scourge of his own Vice.
Page 5 - Liberty $ they are ruinous to a Country of Commerce; and muft be particularly fatal here, where the leaft Check to the...
Page 6 - ... if any improvements in agriculture can be introduced, upon wife and practicable principles ; and in every thing, that tends to the encouragement of virtue, or the promoting of true religion, you will have towards the attainment of thofe ends, not only my zealous co-operation, but his majeity's ileady and willing proteclion.
Page 19 - Dublin, the resolutions which he read in his place and after delivered in at the table, where the same...
Page 3 - I have ordered the proper Officers to prepare the feveral Accounts and Eftimates, that they may be laid, in due Time, before you : You will obferve, that although, from the Exigencies of feveral extraordinary Services, the Expences of the two preceding Years have...