A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3D. Appleton, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... condition of the country His expulsion , February 1769. Opposed by Grenville Wilkes re - elected and pronounced incapable of sitting Third election . Luttrell pronounced to be member Great popularity of Wilkes Petitions from the country ...
... condition of the country His expulsion , February 1769. Opposed by Grenville Wilkes re - elected and pronounced incapable of sitting Third election . Luttrell pronounced to be member Great popularity of Wilkes Petitions from the country ...
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... condition of the colonies 289 Their moral and political condition 292 Their relations to the mother - country 296 And to the Crown Commercial restrictions American smuggling 298 299 302 303 304 ' Writs of assistance ' . Elements of ...
... condition of the colonies 289 Their moral and political condition 292 Their relations to the mother - country 296 And to the Crown Commercial restrictions American smuggling 298 299 302 303 304 ' Writs of assistance ' . Elements of ...
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... conditions wholly unlike those of any other monarchy , this form of government has been long extirpated from Europe . The crowns of Sweden and of Denmark became in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries strictly hereditary . The German ...
... conditions wholly unlike those of any other monarchy , this form of government has been long extirpated from Europe . The crowns of Sweden and of Denmark became in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries strictly hereditary . The German ...
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... condition of the monarch being a superior man must be in a chronic state of insecurity , and the stability of the government is one of the first conditions of national well - being . Every revolution brings to the surface the worst ...
... condition of the monarch being a superior man must be in a chronic state of insecurity , and the stability of the government is one of the first conditions of national well - being . Every revolution brings to the surface the worst ...
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... condition found in the King a bitter adversary . He opposed the relaxation of the atrocious laws by which Irish commerce had been crushed , although his own Tory ministers were in favour of it . He opposed Catholic emancipation with a ...
... condition found in the King a bitter adversary . He opposed the relaxation of the atrocious laws by which Irish commerce had been crushed , although his own Tory ministers were in favour of it . He opposed Catholic emancipation with a ...
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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...