A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3Longmans, Green, and Company, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... Conduct of Pitt towards the Rockingham Whigs Questions on which he differed from Rockingham His views about party . Good and evil of party 255 95 96 97 98 101 102 Degeneracy of parties under George III . Remedies of Burke . . 110 ...
... Conduct of Pitt towards the Rockingham Whigs Questions on which he differed from Rockingham His views about party . Good and evil of party 255 95 96 97 98 101 102 Degeneracy of parties under George III . Remedies of Burke . . 110 ...
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... Conduct of Pitt towards the Rockingham Whigs Questions on which he differed from Rockingham His views about party . Good and evil of party 255 95 96 97 98 101 102 Degeneracy of parties under George III . Remedies of Burke . . 110 ...
... Conduct of Pitt towards the Rockingham Whigs Questions on which he differed from Rockingham His views about party . Good and evil of party 255 95 96 97 98 101 102 Degeneracy of parties under George III . Remedies of Burke . . 110 ...
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... conduct the policy of the nation for the period of a long reign without occasionally incurring violent unpopularity and differ- ing from the majority of the legislators . In a purely constitu- tional country this causes little ...
... conduct the policy of the nation for the period of a long reign without occasionally incurring violent unpopularity and differ- ing from the majority of the legislators . In a purely constitu- tional country this causes little ...
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... conducted ; and it is remarkable that among his preceptors Scott had been recommended by Bolingbroke , while Stone had been suspected of Jacobitism . They appear to have discharged their functions . very ill ; for George III . was ...
... conducted ; and it is remarkable that among his preceptors Scott had been recommended by Bolingbroke , while Stone had been suspected of Jacobitism . They appear to have discharged their functions . very ill ; for George III . was ...
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... conduct was to be warmly encouraged . The system of divided administrations which had existed under William and Anne was to be revived . The ministers were to be as much as possible confined to their several departments ; they were to ...
... conduct was to be warmly encouraged . The system of divided administrations which had existed under William and Anne was to be revived . The ministers were to be as much as possible confined to their several departments ; they were to ...
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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...