A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3D. Appleton, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... Whigs return under Rockingham , July 1765 The Rockingham Ministry . Its weakness . Pitt refuses to join it . The King undermines it . Its dismissal 22 92 Conduct of Pitt towards the Rockingham Whigs Questions on which he differed from ...
... Whigs return under Rockingham , July 1765 The Rockingham Ministry . Its weakness . Pitt refuses to join it . The King undermines it . Its dismissal 22 92 Conduct of Pitt towards the Rockingham Whigs Questions on which he differed from ...
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... Whigs return under Rockingham , July 1765 • The Rockingham Ministry . Its weakness . Pitt refuses to join it . The King undermines it . Its dismissal 87 89 91 26 92 Conduct of Pitt towards the Rockingham Whigs Questions on which he ...
... Whigs return under Rockingham , July 1765 • The Rockingham Ministry . Its weakness . Pitt refuses to join it . The King undermines it . Its dismissal 87 89 91 26 92 Conduct of Pitt towards the Rockingham Whigs Questions on which he ...
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... Whigs compelled to identify themselves with Parliamentary Views of Chatham about reform Edmund Burke . His life , character ... Whig and Radical 209 Objects of representative systems 211 Criticism of the views of Burke 218 Dangers to ...
... Whigs compelled to identify themselves with Parliamentary Views of Chatham about reform Edmund Burke . His life , character ... Whig and Radical 209 Objects of representative systems 211 Criticism of the views of Burke 218 Dangers to ...
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... Whig party , who , while they have combated steadily the Tory doctrine of the Divine right of kings , and the conception of monarchy that flows from it , and have restricted within very narrow limits the political func- tions of the ...
... Whig party , who , while they have combated steadily the Tory doctrine of the Divine right of kings , and the conception of monarchy that flows from it , and have restricted within very narrow limits the political func- tions of the ...
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... Whig ministers , and even with the other members of the royal family . The education of the young Prince was feebly and fitfully conducted ; and it is remarkable that among his preceptors Scott had been recommended by Bolingbroke ...
... Whig ministers , and even with the other members of the royal family . The education of the young Prince was feebly and fitfully conducted ; and it is remarkable that among his preceptors Scott had been recommended by Bolingbroke ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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,...
Page 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...