The Speeches of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Sketch of His Life, Volume 3

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H.G. Bohn, 1842 - Great Britain - 550 pages
 

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Page 43 - Parliament their famous motion, that an humble address be presented to his Majesty that he would be graciously pleased to remove the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole...
Page 207 - That an humble address be presented to His Majesty, to return His Majesty the thanks of this House for his most gracious message to this House, signified by His Grace the Lord-lieutenant.
Page 544 - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, that he will be graciously pleased to give directions that a monument be erected in the Cathedral Church of ST.
Page 423 - I do not like thee, Dr Fell. The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr Fell.
Page 175 - Board, that it is indispensably necessary for the public service, that the Directors of the Bank of England should forbear issuing any cash in payment until the sense of Parliament can be taken on that subject...
Page 31 - So, to effect his monarch's ends, From hell a viceroy devil ascends; His budget with corruptions cramm'd, The contributions of the damn'd; Which with unsparing hand he strews Through courts and senates as he goes; And then at Beelzebub's black hall, Complains his budget was too small.
Page 492 - Gin they dinna lie there, where the de'il dittha lie, mon?
Page 42 - Thoughts on the English Government — addressed to the quiet good sense of the people of England...
Page 285 - And will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the united Church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, worship, discipline and government thereof, as by law established within England and Ireland and the territories thereunto belonging?
Page 408 - Martinico, &c. all cessions. Not they : they are all so many traps and holes to catch this silly fellow in, and make a merchant of him ! I really think the best way, upon this principle — -would be this, let the merchants of London open a public subscription, and set him up at once ! I hear a great deal respecting a certain statue about to be erected to the right hon.

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