A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3D. Appleton, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... throws the rulers into the posture of self - defence , and makes them nervously and constantly jealous of their subjects . It produces reactions in which the most important reforms are endangered , drives from B 2 reform.
... throws the rulers into the posture of self - defence , and makes them nervously and constantly jealous of their subjects . It produces reactions in which the most important reforms are endangered , drives from B 2 reform.
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky. which the most important reforms are endangered , drives from politics the very class whose co - operation is most valuable , and exposes every nation in which it exists to the opposite evils of despotism ...
William Edward Hartpole Lecky. which the most important reforms are endangered , drives from politics the very class whose co - operation is most valuable , and exposes every nation in which it exists to the opposite evils of despotism ...
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... important than might at first sight be imagined . In the first place , as the head of society , the patron of art , the dis- penser of international courtesies , the supreme representative of his country in the council of nations , he ...
... important than might at first sight be imagined . In the first place , as the head of society , the patron of art , the dis- penser of international courtesies , the supreme representative of his country in the council of nations , he ...
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... important figure in the small circle was John , Earl of Bute , a Scotch nobleman who had held an office in the household of Frederick , Prince of Wales , had lived after his death for some years a life of more than common retirement in ...
... important figure in the small circle was John , Earl of Bute , a Scotch nobleman who had held an office in the household of Frederick , Prince of Wales , had lived after his death for some years a life of more than common retirement in ...
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... important had been the long exclusion from office of that great Tory party which naturally exalts most highly the royal prerogative . It had originally been defended , and perhaps justified , by the Jacobitism of Bolingbroke and of his ...
... important had been the long exclusion from office of that great Tory party which naturally exalts most highly the royal prerogative . It had originally been defended , and perhaps justified , by the Jacobitism of Bolingbroke and of his ...
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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...