 | Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - 1884 - 1150 pagina’s
...conspicuous. On the introduction of the Stamp Act in 1765, ho was one of the " two or three gentlemen who spoke against the Act, and that with great reserve and remarkable temper." He was a firm supporter of the policy of the Kockingham government, and on Pitt's taking office in... | |
 | 1887 - 958 pagina’s
...never heard a more languid debate in this house. No more than two or three gentlemen, as I remember, spoke against the act, and that with great reserve...or division at all. I am sure there was no protest. In fact, the affair passed with so very, very little noise, that in town they scarcely knew the nature... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 pagina’s
...never heard a more languid debate in this House. No more 30 than two or three gentlemen, as I remember, spoke against the act, and that with great reserve,...bill ; and the minority did not reach to more than 39 or 40. In the House of Lords I do not recollect that there was any debate or division at all. I... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 294 pagina’s
...never heard a more languid debate in this House. No more than two or three gentlemen, as I remember, spoke against the Act, and that with great reserve...Bill, and the minority did not reach to more than 39 or 40. In the House of Lords, I do not recollect that there was any debate or division at all. I... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1901 - 438 pagina’s
...that he had " never heard a more languid debate. No more than two or three gentlemen, as I remember, spoke against the act and that with great reserve...or division at all. I am sure there was no protest. In fact, the affair passed with so very little noise that in town they scarcely knew the nature of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 274 pagina’s
...never heard a more languid debate in this House. No more than two or three gentlemen, as I remember, spoke against the Act, and that with great reserve...Bill, and the minority did not reach to more than 39 or 40. In the House of Lords, I do not recollect that there was any debate or division at all. I... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 608 pagina’s
...never heard a more languid debate in this House. No more than two or three gentlemen, as I remember, spoke against the act, and that with great reserve...bill ; and the minority did not reach to more than 39 or 40. In the House of Lords I do not recollect that there was any debate or division at all. I... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pagina’s
...never heard a more languid debate in this House. No more than two or three gentlemen, as I remember, spoke against the act, and that with great reserve,...bill ; and the minority did not reach to more than 39 or 40. In the House of Lords I do not recollect that there was any debate or division at all. I... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 492 pagina’s
...colonies ; nor had the minority exceeded thirty-nine or forty. " In the House of Lords," added Burke, " I do not recollect that there was any debate or division at all." The fact is, that the great mass of the people of England troubled themselves very little about the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1905 - 136 pagina’s
...never heard a more languid debate in this House. No more than two or three gentlemen, as I 15 remember, spoke against the act, and that with great reserve...bill ; and the minority did not reach to more than 39 or 40. In the House of Lords I do not recollect that there was any debate or division at all. I... | |
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No more than two or three gentlemen, as I remember, spoke against the Act, and that with great reserve and remarkable temper. There was but one division in the whole progress of the bill ; and the minority did not reach to more than thirty-nine or forty.... 
