This conviction, that it became them to do it immediately, made him regret (and it was the only thing he regretted in the admirable speech he had heard) that his honourable friend should have introduced propositions on this subject.

He could have wished that the business had been brought to a conclusion at once, without voting the propositions, which had been read to them.

He was not over fond of abstract propositions.

They were seldom necessary; and often occasioned great difficulty, embarrassment, and delay.
There was besides no occasion whatever to assign detailed reasons for a vote, which Nature herself dictated, and which Religion enforced.

If it should happen, that the propositions were not carried in that house or the other, such a complication of mischiefs might follow, as might occasion them heartily to lament that they were ever introduced.