A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volum 3D. Appleton, 1882 |
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... continued during his whole life . He mixed very little in the world - scarcely at all with the young nobility . His mother said that their lax manners would pro- bably corrupt her son . Her enemies declared that the real explanation of ...
... continued during his whole life . He mixed very little in the world - scarcely at all with the young nobility . His mother said that their lax manners would pro- bably corrupt her son . Her enemies declared that the real explanation of ...
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... continued it would be a matter of great difficulty to fill the ranks.2 Negotiations for peace had taken place as early as November 1759 , and they were resumed in the spring of 1761 , but neither party appears to have entered very ...
... continued it would be a matter of great difficulty to fill the ranks.2 Negotiations for peace had taken place as early as November 1759 , and they were resumed in the spring of 1761 , but neither party appears to have entered very ...
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... continued , and its value did not amount to more than a small fraction of that of the territory which England , after a long series of almost uninterrupted victories , consented to abandon . The terms of the peace were little , if at ...
... continued , and its value did not amount to more than a small fraction of that of the territory which England , after a long series of almost uninterrupted victories , consented to abandon . The terms of the peace were little , if at ...
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... continued for many years unchecked , and among the Whigs it was greatly strengthened by the strong vein of Toryism , if not of Jacobitism , which was at this time conspicuous in Scotch writers . In the volumes of his history published ...
... continued for many years unchecked , and among the Whigs it was greatly strengthened by the strong vein of Toryism , if not of Jacobitism , which was at this time conspicuous in Scotch writers . In the volumes of his history published ...
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... continued , ' must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities , whom England truly reveres , can be brought to give the sanction of his sacred name to the most odious measures , and to the most unjusti- fiable public ...
... continued , ' must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities , whom England truly reveres , can be brought to give the sanction of his sacred name to the most odious measures , and to the most unjusti- fiable public ...
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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...