A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volum 3Longmans, Green, and Company, 1882 |
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... raising soldiers 455 Enlistment of German mercenaries 458 Produces the Declaration of Independence 459 CHAPTER XIII . Domestic troubles of the King 461 The Royal Marriage Act 463 Charles Fox 465 His brief separation from North ( 1772 ) ...
... raising soldiers 455 Enlistment of German mercenaries 458 Produces the Declaration of Independence 459 CHAPTER XIII . Domestic troubles of the King 461 The Royal Marriage Act 463 Charles Fox 465 His brief separation from North ( 1772 ) ...
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... raise their candidates to the throne . Every illness of the sovereign gives rise to intrigues , conspiracies , and inse- curity ; his death usually leads to disorder , and sometimes to anarchy and civil war . Each new King ascends the ...
... raise their candidates to the throne . Every illness of the sovereign gives rise to intrigues , conspiracies , and inse- curity ; his death usually leads to disorder , and sometimes to anarchy and civil war . Each new King ascends the ...
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... raised England to an ascendency which she had scarcely attained since the great days of Henry V. The French flag had nearly disappeared from the sea . Except Louisiana , all the French possessions in North America , except St. Domingo ...
... raised England to an ascendency which she had scarcely attained since the great days of Henry V. The French flag had nearly disappeared from the sea . Except Louisiana , all the French possessions in North America , except St. Domingo ...
Side 24
... raised against him a weight of animosity which it needed all his genius , popularity , and suc- cess to repress . In the council the other ministers cowered like timid schoolboys before him . More than once , when doubts were expressed ...
... raised against him a weight of animosity which it needed all his genius , popularity , and suc- cess to repress . In the council the other ministers cowered like timid schoolboys before him . More than once , when doubts were expressed ...
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... raise him to the House of Lords until the trial of Lord Ferrers , when there was a difficulty in finding a lawyer who would preside as Lord Steward . In the new reign he became one of the most docile and useful agents of the policy of ...
... raise him to the House of Lords until the trial of Lord Ferrers , when there was a difficulty in finding a lawyer who would preside as Lord Steward . In the new reign he became one of the most docile and useful agents of the policy of ...
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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...