A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volum 3D. Appleton, 1882 |
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... Court . Divided administrations . Position of the Cabinet • ' Seasonable hints of an honest man Magnificent position of England PAGE 1 7 10 10 12 14 16 17 18 Bolingbroke , Carteret , and Pitt 19 · 20 21 22 23 Divisions in the Government ...
... Court . Divided administrations . Position of the Cabinet • ' Seasonable hints of an honest man Magnificent position of England PAGE 1 7 10 10 12 14 16 17 18 Bolingbroke , Carteret , and Pitt 19 · 20 21 22 23 Divisions in the Government ...
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... Court intrigues , secret and un- official advisers , responsible ministers surrendering their real convictions in deference to the wishes of an irresponsible sove- reign , are the natural results ; and even if the firmness of ministers ...
... Court intrigues , secret and un- official advisers , responsible ministers surrendering their real convictions in deference to the wishes of an irresponsible sove- reign , are the natural results ; and even if the firmness of ministers ...
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... Court , fond of power , unamiable , and somewhat soured by adversity . The early death of her husband had deprived her of the prospect of a crown , and although after his death Leicester House ceased to be a centre of active opposition ...
... Court , fond of power , unamiable , and somewhat soured by adversity . The early death of her husband had deprived her of the prospect of a crown , and although after his death Leicester House ceased to be a centre of active opposition ...
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... Court preacher who had praised him in a sermon ; his suppression of Sunday levees ; his dis- couragement of gambling at Court ; his letter of remonstrance to an Archbishop of Canterbury who had allowed balls in his palace ; his constant ...
... Court preacher who had praised him in a sermon ; his suppression of Sunday levees ; his dis- couragement of gambling at Court ; his letter of remonstrance to an Archbishop of Canterbury who had allowed balls in his palace ; his constant ...
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... Court party never concealed their conviction that the monarchy in the preceding reign had fallen into an essentially false position , and that it should be the first object of the new sovereign to restore it to 1 After his resignation ...
... Court party never concealed their conviction that the monarchy in the preceding reign had fallen into an essentially false position , and that it should be the first object of the new sovereign to restore it to 1 After his resignation ...
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Side 338 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Side 337 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Side 203 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Side 393 - I can take upon me to assure you, notwithstanding insinuations to the contrary from men with factious and seditious views, that his Majesty's present administration have at no time entertained a design to propose to Parliament to lay any further taxes upon America for the purpose of raising a revenue...