 | William Coxe - 1816 - 464 pages
...this house, I am not so mad as ever again to engage in any thing that looks like an Excise; though hi my own private opinion, I still think it was a scheme...have tended very much to the interest of the nation, and I am convinced that all the clamours without doors, and a great part of the opposition it met with... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1834 - 518 pages
...House, I am not so mad as ever again to engage in any thing that looks like an Excise ; though, in my private opinion, I still think it was a scheme that...very much to the interest of the nation." • The conduct of Walpole with regard to the Spanish war is the great blemish of his public life. Archdeacon... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...House, I am not so mad as ever again to engage in any thing that looks like an Excise ; though, in my private opinion, I still think it was a scheme that...tended very much to the interest of the nation.' The conduct of Walpole with regard to the Spanish war is the great blemish of his public life. Archdeacon... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1834 - 518 pages
...House, I am not so mad as ever again to engage in any thing that looks like an Excise ; though, in my private opinion, I still think it was a scheme that...would have tended very much to the interest of the natiori." think, to bestow a higher eulogium on any statesman. But the eulogium is far too high for... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1838 - 520 pages
...I, for my own part, can assure this " House I am not so mad as ever again to engage " in any thing that looks like an excise, though, "in my own private...tended very much to " the interest of the nation." * It is very remarkable, however, that, after his time, some of the least popular clauses of the Excise... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1837 - 522 pages
...I, for my own part, can assure this " House I am not so mad as ever again to engage " in any thing that looks like an excise, though, " in my own private...tended very much to " the interest of the nation." * It is very remarkable, however, that, after his time, some of the least popular clauses of the Excise... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1837 - 494 pages
...I, for my own part, can assure this " House I am not so mad as ever again to engage "(in any thing that looks like an excise, though, " in my own private...tended very much to " the interest of the nation." * It is very remarkable, however, that, after his time, some of the least popular clauses of the Excise... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1839 - 532 pages
...I, for my own part, can assure this " House I am not so mad as ever again to engage " in any thing that looks like an excise, though, " in my own private...a scheme that would have tended very much to " the interests of the nation." * It is very remarkable, however, that, after his time, some of the least... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1840 - 446 pages
...for my part," he exclaimed, " assure this house, I am not so mad as ever again to engage in any thing that looks like an excise, though, in my own private...tended very much to the interest of the nation." The standing army, as on all former occasions, led to a debate of great exasperation, argued, however,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pages
...House, I am not so mad as ever again to engage in anything that looks like an Excise ; though, in my private opinion, I still think it was a scheme that...tended very much to the interest of the nation.' The conduct of Walpole with regard to the Spanish War is the great blemish of his public life. Archdeacon... | |
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As to the wicked scheme," said Walpole, " as the gentleman is pleased to call it, which he would persuade gentlemen is not yet laid aside, I for my part assure this House I am not so mad as ever again to engage in... 
