Speeches in Parliament, of the Right Honourable William Windham: To which is Prefixed, Some Account of His Life, 1권Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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140 페이지 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers And heavily in clouds brings on the day The great, th' important day
96 페이지 - Londonderry brought forward his motion on our foreign relations, and moved that an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before the House...
11 페이지 - That this House doth highly approve and acknowledge the valour and patient perseverance displayed by the non-commissioned officers and private soldiers, both European and Native, employed in Afghanistan, and that the same be signified to them by the commanders of the several corps, who are desired to thank them for their gallant behaviour.
187 페이지 - ... make them sensible even that such exertions were necessary. — To talk of the Spaniards generally, as wanting in zeal or courage or determination to defend their country, was more than any one would venture, after such examples as Saragossa, where a defence was made so far exceeding what was to be expected from a regular army, that one might conceive a general made a peer in this country, for having surrendered Saragossa, in circumstances far short of those in which its inhabitants defended...
189 페이지 - Chief, with personal corruption or participation in any profits derived through undue means; but that while we readily do justice to the exemplary regularity with which business is conducted in his department, and the salutary regulations which have been introduced by His Royal Highness, some of which are calculated to prevent such practices as have been brought under our review, we are obliged to express our opinion that such abuses could scarcely have prevailed to the extent to which they have...
183 페이지 - He could not help perceiving in the conduct of this war, and certainly in much of the language held about it, a certain mixture of that error, which prevailed in many years of the last war, of encouraging sanguine expectations of what was to be done by Austria and other powers, and looking to them for what in many instances ought to have been our own work. Something of that sort prevailed here. With all our talk about Spain, we did not set our shoulders to the wheel, as people would, who felt that...
184 페이지 - ... advances. And their purpose, the purpose of the ministers themselves, might, very possibly, in the mean while, be answered ; for the error here stated was not a disinterested one, and one without its design. It was thus, perhaps, that an administration was to acquire the character of vigour! The ministers looked at every measure not with a view to the effect which it was to produce abroad, but to the appearance which it was to make at home: they were more intent upon the richness and costliness...
356 페이지 - That it does not appear to this House, that the failure of this expedition is imputable to the conduct of the army or the navy in the execution of their instructions, relative to the military and naval operations in the Scheldt "5. That, on the 19th of August, a malignant disorder showed itself among His Majesty's troops ; and that, on the 8th of September, the number of sick amounted to upwards of 10,948 men.
184 페이지 - Romana had said, if he had said it in private, or the gross fallacy of quoting what he might have said in a proclamation in a moment of spleen or anger, and for the purpose of stimulating the inhabitants of those provinces to greater activity, he must utterly deny the expressions quoted. There could be nothing more fallacious than to estimate the feelings of a country towards any cause, by the feelings excited in that part of it, which should be exposed to the immediate pressure of an army. If the...