 | Edmund Burke - History - 1849 - 1012 pages
...the competition of free trade." The British planter therefore had a claim to a discriminating duty, not as a matter of favour, but as a matter of right. And why ? Because every arrangement into which Great Britain had entered with him at the period of... | |
 | Queen Caroline (consort of George IV, King of Great Britain) - Scandals - 1820 - 958 pages
...preliminary remarks were well milled to that temper of mind which he called upon their lordships, «ot as a matter of favour, but as a matter of right, to...would be offered in reply to it by the accused party, la •peaking of the whole case, and before he came to examine it in fit-- tail, it was impossible... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - 1821 - 676 pages
...in his life or liberty, in his character or his fortune! These preliminary remarks were welltuited to that temper of mind which he called upon their...would be offered in reply to it by the accused party, la speaking m'Z of the whole case, and before he came to examine it in detail, it was impossible not... | |
 | John Adolphus - Women - 1821 - 1040 pages
...preliminary remarks were well suited to that temper of mil«! which he called upon their lordship«, not as a matter of favour, but as a matter of right, to exhibit in tbeirexamiuation oftiie adverse case, and in their preparation for that which wonld be offered in reply... | |
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 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1848 - 790 pages
...was "every man's consent," when five out of six men had no vote ? lie was asking for these rights, not as a matter of favour, but as a matter of right; and so in former times they were held to be. In 1837, Lord Brougham brought in a Bill for the appointment... | |
 | Books - 1849 - 980 pages
...the competition of free trade." The British planter therefore had a claim to a discriminating duty, not as a matter of favour, but as a matter of right. And why ? Because every arrangement into which Great Britain had entered with him at the period of... | |
 | History - 1849 - 982 pages
...the competition of free trade." The British planter therefore had a claim to a discriminating duty, not as a matter of favour, but as a matter of right. And why ? Because every arrangement into which Great Britain had entered with him at the period of... | |
 | Louis Bautain - Elocution - 1859 - 388 pages
...sovereign State of Mississippi, to the Congress of the United States, and claim a seat on this floor, not as a matter of favour, but as a matter of right." Analogy. — This argument is never demonstrative. It is based, not upon a direct resemblance, but... | |
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Spanish colonist; and until you have again placed him on a level with his rivals in that respect, you cannot call upon him to meet the competition of free trade." The British planter therefore had a claim to a discriminating duty, not as a matter of favour,... 
