Of the Use and Abuse of Parliaments: In Two Historical Discourses, Viz. I. A General View of Government in Europe. II. A Detection of the Parliaments of England, from the Year 1660, Volume 21744 - Great Britain - 744 pages |
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Page 326 - THIS BOOK. FORMS PART OF THE ORIGINAL LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BOUGHT IN EUROPE 1838 TO 1839 BY ASA CRAY I SKETCHES SPAIN AND MOROCCO.
Page 468 - Houfe, that altho' by the Cafh which came into their Hands, and by the Sale of Four Millions of Stock to the Bank, and by the Loans of Stock and otherwife, they were fufficiently enabled to...
Page 371 - LofTes occafion'd by this Expedition, do not only very far exceed any Intereft which the Subjects of this Nation can be fuppofed to have in the Galleons ; but have likewife been much more confiderable than any Detriment which has accrued to Spain, by delaying the Return of the Galleons.
Page 572 - ... which you have made in my family, and thereby weaken the common interest of the whole. " In this situation I will receive no reply ; but when your actions manifest a just sense of your duty and submission, that may induce me to pardon what at present I most justly resent.
Page 508 - That an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, that he would be gracioufly pleafed to give...
Page 572 - And until you withdraw your regard and confidence from those, by whose instigation and advice you are directed and encouraged in your unwarrantable behaviour to me and to the Queen, and until you return to your duty, you shall not reside in my palace ; which I will not suffer to be made the resort of them, who under the appearance of an attachment to you...
Page 364 - Debate it was moved to Refolve, That it is the Opinion of this Houfe, That...
Page 461 - Effcil was, That they had never made any Computation ; but one of them faid, that by a Computation he had made, only to fatisfy his own private Curiofity, he believed the Frauds come to their Knowledge might amount to 30 or 40,000'.
Page 490 - Parliament, suppose these lights refused, these reasonable requests rejected, by a corrupt majority of his creatures whom he retains in daily pay or engages in his particular interest by...
Page 629 - Succefs ; if the People fhould not implicitly refign their Reafon to a Vote of this Houfe, what will be the Confequence ? Will not the Parliament lofe its Authority ? Will it not be thought, that, even in Parliament, we are governed by a FaStion?