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... parliaments a protection against corruption , the electoral do- minions an important accession to the wealth and strength ... parliament were indeed important protections to the settlement of the crown made on the Revolution , and they ...
... parliaments a protection against corruption , the electoral do- minions an important accession to the wealth and strength ... parliament were indeed important protections to the settlement of the crown made on the Revolution , and they ...
Side xvi
... Parliamentary independence . The whole nation , writes Pul- teney to Swift , is so abandoned and corrupt , that the Crown can never fail of a majority in both Houses of Parliament . ' I am convinced , ' he says , ' that our constitution ...
... Parliamentary independence . The whole nation , writes Pul- teney to Swift , is so abandoned and corrupt , that the Crown can never fail of a majority in both Houses of Parliament . ' I am convinced , ' he says , ' that our constitution ...
Side xxi
... Parliament , and a Parliament accountable to the People , are plausible demands , and they are demands which a happier generation has realised . But the consequences of a considerable majority for a single Whig minister , as in the ...
... Parliament , and a Parliament accountable to the People , are plausible demands , and they are demands which a happier generation has realised . But the consequences of a considerable majority for a single Whig minister , as in the ...
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... Parliaments : — ' Nothing is more beautiful in the theory of Parliaments , than that principle of renovation and union ... parliament ; and enough of the new to invigorate us , and bring us to our true character , by being taken from the ...
... Parliaments : — ' Nothing is more beautiful in the theory of Parliaments , than that principle of renovation and union ... parliament ; and enough of the new to invigorate us , and bring us to our true character , by being taken from the ...
Side xxxiii
... greater diffuseness of the latter is attributable , of course , to the habit of public speaking . VCL . I. 1 Ed . Croker , p . 336 . C Burke's eloquence introduced a new model into Parliament . The INTRODUCTION . xxxiii.
... greater diffuseness of the latter is attributable , of course , to the habit of public speaking . VCL . I. 1 Ed . Croker , p . 336 . C Burke's eloquence introduced a new model into Parliament . The INTRODUCTION . xxxiii.
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Side 177 - First, Sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Side 232 - Do you imagine then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply which gives you your army? or that it is the mutiny bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No ! surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Side 309 - Colony, for contributing their proportion to the Common Defence (such proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court or General Assembly of such Province or Colony and disposable by Parliament) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the Civil Government and the administration of Justice...
Side 182 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles, and such will be all masters of .slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Side 86 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Side 145 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Side 233 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Side 173 - Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough...
Side 168 - I am sensible that a good deal more is still to be done. Indeed, sir, to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and precise judgment, I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after...
Side 169 - Whilst we spend our time in deliberating on the mode of governing Two Millions, we shall find we have Millions more to manage. Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood, than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.