A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3D. Appleton, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... less by its positive civilisation and intelligence , than by the weakness of the ele- ment of anarchy that is within it . There are also other evils , if possible more serious , which follow in the train of revolutions . Every deposed ...
... less by its positive civilisation and intelligence , than by the weakness of the ele- ment of anarchy that is within it . There are also other evils , if possible more serious , which follow in the train of revolutions . Every deposed ...
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... less dangerous . A secret in- fluence habitually exercised is sure to be suspected , to be exag- gerated , and to be misrepresented . The national policy will almost inevitably be weakened when the confidence of the sove- reign is ...
... less dangerous . A secret in- fluence habitually exercised is sure to be suspected , to be exag- gerated , and to be misrepresented . The national policy will almost inevitably be weakened when the confidence of the sove- reign is ...
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... less invidiously by the House of Lords , and the royal veto has accordingly fallen . into desuetude and has not been employed since the reign of Anne . The substantial , though still somewhat imperfect realisation of this ideal of ...
... less invidiously by the House of Lords , and the royal veto has accordingly fallen . into desuetude and has not been employed since the reign of Anne . The substantial , though still somewhat imperfect realisation of this ideal of ...
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... less a writer than Locke defended the pro- priety of extinguishing the rotten boroughs and readjusting the proportion of members to electors by a simple exercise of prerogative . Such schemes soon became impossible , but the form which ...
... less a writer than Locke defended the pro- priety of extinguishing the rotten boroughs and readjusting the proportion of members to electors by a simple exercise of prerogative . Such schemes soon became impossible , but the form which ...
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... less than a million a year , 1 although his Court was parsimonious to a fault , and his hospi- tality exceedingly restricted , and although he succeeded to a considerable sum that had been saved by his predecessor , he accumulated in ...
... less than a million a year , 1 although his Court was parsimonious to a fault , and his hospi- tality exceedingly restricted , and although he succeeded to a considerable sum that had been saved by his predecessor , he accumulated in ...
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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...