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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... whose supreme Delight is to fulfill it , or wha can feduce him to illicit Gain , who despises illicit Pleasures , and whose Fortune already enables him to poffefs those which his Virtue prompts him to defire . In Governors , in- deed ...
... whose supreme Delight is to fulfill it , or wha can feduce him to illicit Gain , who despises illicit Pleasures , and whose Fortune already enables him to poffefs those which his Virtue prompts him to defire . In Governors , in- deed ...
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... whose Honour , Integrity , Juftice , and other eminent Qualities , we have con- ceived the highest Opinion , We are most gratefully affected with your Majesty's Goodness , in having made Ufe of the Credit given to your Government , in ...
... whose Honour , Integrity , Juftice , and other eminent Qualities , we have con- ceived the highest Opinion , We are most gratefully affected with your Majesty's Goodness , in having made Ufe of the Credit given to your Government , in ...
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... whose Measures they implicitly con- cur ; as the supreme and only real Happiness and Honour of the Prince , are derived wholly from the Freedom , Wealth , and Happiness of his People , fo the Happiness and Honour of a Minister , if he ...
... whose Measures they implicitly con- cur ; as the supreme and only real Happiness and Honour of the Prince , are derived wholly from the Freedom , Wealth , and Happiness of his People , fo the Happiness and Honour of a Minister , if he ...
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... whose Income in civil Life produces only a Pittance equal to his own ; and who can preferve the Propriety of his Character , and the Respect and Weight , which alone can give Efficacy to his Miniftry , only by moving in the Rank of ...
... whose Income in civil Life produces only a Pittance equal to his own ; and who can preferve the Propriety of his Character , and the Respect and Weight , which alone can give Efficacy to his Miniftry , only by moving in the Rank of ...
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... whose Poverty and Dependance must render both not only useless , but contemptible . I will readily admit that a Gentleman , whofe Edu- cation has coft annually more than the whole Income allotted to the Function , for which he could no ...
... whose Poverty and Dependance must render both not only useless , but contemptible . I will readily admit that a Gentleman , whofe Edu- cation has coft annually more than the whole Income allotted to the Function , for which he could no ...
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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...