A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3D. Appleton, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... chief cities of France . Blind indeed must be that politician who fails to perceive their significance , who has not learnt from this long train of calamities the danger of tampering with the central pillars of the State , and letting ...
... chief cities of France . Blind indeed must be that politician who fails to perceive their significance , who has not learnt from this long train of calamities the danger of tampering with the central pillars of the State , and letting ...
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... chief power in the State . But with the extinction of Jacobitism the necessity for this exclusion had ceased . Scotland had been completely pacified by the abolition of hereditary jurisdictions ; the English Jacobites were shown by the ...
... chief power in the State . But with the extinction of Jacobitism the necessity for this exclusion had ceased . Scotland had been completely pacified by the abolition of hereditary jurisdictions ; the English Jacobites were shown by the ...
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... chief business of the first short session of Parliament was to regulate the civil list and the supplies . The first was fixed at 800,000l . , and the second at a little less than twenty millions , and in order to supply what was ...
... chief business of the first short session of Parliament was to regulate the civil list and the supplies . The first was fixed at 800,000l . , and the second at a little less than twenty millions , and in order to supply what was ...
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... chief towns . The City of London , which had long been his chief supporter , after a momentary hesitation remained firm to its allegiance . The Common Council passed a vote of thanks to him five weeks after his resignation . On the ...
... chief towns . The City of London , which had long been his chief supporter , after a momentary hesitation remained firm to its allegiance . The Common Council passed a vote of thanks to him five weeks after his resignation . On the ...
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... chief source of disaffection , hoped , not altogether unreasonably , that the young king , by putting an end to the German war and by showing decisively that he was governed by no German sympathies , would have reaped an abundant ...
... chief source of disaffection , hoped , not altogether unreasonably , that the young king , by putting an end to the German war and by showing decisively that he was governed by no German sympathies , would have reaped an abundant ...
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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...