A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volum 3D. Appleton, 1882 |
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... voted , and to refuse their consent to any peace which did not secure to England all or nearly all the conquests ` she had made . The example was widely followed . The un- popularity of Bute was such that he could not appear unat ...
... voted , and to refuse their consent to any peace which did not secure to England all or nearly all the conquests ` she had made . The example was widely followed . The un- popularity of Bute was such that he could not appear unat ...
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... voted together , and their venality was notorious.3 The rebellion of 1745 raised the national antipathy to fever heat . The Highland march to Derby and the disgraceful panic it produced in London , were remembered with a bitter- ness ...
... voted together , and their venality was notorious.3 The rebellion of 1745 raised the national antipathy to fever heat . The Highland march to Derby and the disgraceful panic it produced in London , were remembered with a bitter- ness ...
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... voted against him . He was sincerely attached to the King , and could not but be sensible that he was ruining his popularity . His health was weak , and he hoped under a new Ministry to wield with greatly diminished obloquy the same ...
... voted against him . He was sincerely attached to the King , and could not but be sensible that he was ruining his popularity . His health was weak , and he hoped under a new Ministry to wield with greatly diminished obloquy the same ...
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... voted the forty - fifth number of the North Briton ' a false , scandalous , and seditious libel , ' and ordered it to be burnt by the common hangman . ' Wilkes vainly endeavoured to avert the sentence by declaring that if his privilege ...
... voted the forty - fifth number of the North Briton ' a false , scandalous , and seditious libel , ' and ordered it to be burnt by the common hangman . ' Wilkes vainly endeavoured to avert the sentence by declaring that if his privilege ...
Side 77
... voted the poems a breach of privilege , and a ' scandalous , obscene , and impious libel , ' and two days later presented an address to the King de- manding the prosecution of Wilkes for blasphemy.3 Before this time , however , Wilkes ...
... voted the poems a breach of privilege , and a ' scandalous , obscene , and impious libel , ' and two days later presented an address to the King de- manding the prosecution of Wilkes for blasphemy.3 Before this time , however , Wilkes ...
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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...