A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3D. Appleton, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... hands of men of very exceptional ability , and at the same time of preventing the instability , insecurity , and alarm which perpetual and radical changes in the Government must produce . Among the many objections to hereditary ...
... hands of men of very exceptional ability , and at the same time of preventing the instability , insecurity , and alarm which perpetual and radical changes in the Government must produce . Among the many objections to hereditary ...
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... hand , in a constitutional monarchy , is virtually , though not avowedly , as truly elective as in a republic , for although the sovereign chooses the minister , he is restricted in his choice to the statesman whom the dominant ...
... hand , in a constitutional monarchy , is virtually , though not avowedly , as truly elective as in a republic , for although the sovereign chooses the minister , he is restricted in his choice to the statesman whom the dominant ...
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... hand of the King may not be traced - sometimes in postponing inevitable measures of justice and reform , sometimes in sowing the seeds of enduring evil . The root , however , of his great errors lay in his deter- mination to restore the ...
... hand of the King may not be traced - sometimes in postponing inevitable measures of justice and reform , sometimes in sowing the seeds of enduring evil . The root , however , of his great errors lay in his deter- mination to restore the ...
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... hands and applied it to their own creatures without consulting the Crown or leav- ing any room for the royal nomination or direction .'- Lord Melcombe to Bute . Adolphus , i . 24 . CH . X. ' THE KING'S FRIENDS . ' 21 20 CH . X. ENGLAND ...
... hands and applied it to their own creatures without consulting the Crown or leav- ing any room for the royal nomination or direction .'- Lord Melcombe to Bute . Adolphus , i . 24 . CH . X. ' THE KING'S FRIENDS . ' 21 20 CH . X. ENGLAND ...
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... hand , the lax policy of Pelham and the personal weakness of Newcastle had led to great lati- tude and violent divergences of policy in the Cabinet which they formed . Fox and Hardwicke , in the debates on the Mar- riage Act , inveighed ...
... hand , the lax policy of Pelham and the personal weakness of Newcastle had led to great lati- tude and violent divergences of policy in the Cabinet which they formed . Fox and Hardwicke , in the debates on the Mar- riage Act , inveighed ...
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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...