The State of the Nation: In a Series of Letters to His Grace, the Duke of BedfordB. Flower, 1805 - 173 halaman |
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... free parliament , for supporting the ministers of the crown , than that short one , That the king has thought proper to appoint them . 1 Blacks . Com . I , 252 , 253 , 272 . " There is something very courtly in this . But 5 IN.
... free parliament , for supporting the ministers of the crown , than that short one , That the king has thought proper to appoint them . 1 Blacks . Com . I , 252 , 253 , 272 . " There is something very courtly in this . But 5 IN.
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... Thoughts on the Cause of the present Discontents . p . 46 . Ed . 1770 . LETTER II . MY LORD , THE true cause of either of these wars cannot be rightly explained , nor can we beneficially understand how they have jointly occasioned the ...
... Thoughts on the Cause of the present Discontents . p . 46 . Ed . 1770 . LETTER II . MY LORD , THE true cause of either of these wars cannot be rightly explained , nor can we beneficially understand how they have jointly occasioned the ...
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... , so as to endanger the very foundation of a good government , to " the grievance and dishonour of the kingdom . " 1 Thoughts on the Cause of the present Discontents , p . 66 . Those who took an early part in depreciating the na- 7.
... , so as to endanger the very foundation of a good government , to " the grievance and dishonour of the kingdom . " 1 Thoughts on the Cause of the present Discontents , p . 66 . Those who took an early part in depreciating the na- 7.
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... thought them the king's worst enemies . But the efficient few , to whose sycophancy and insidious whisperings , the secret springs of court counsels were attributed , were not un- aptly denominated the faction behind the throne . Wise ...
... thought them the king's worst enemies . But the efficient few , to whose sycophancy and insidious whisperings , the secret springs of court counsels were attributed , were not un- aptly denominated the faction behind the throne . Wise ...
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... Thoughts on the causes of the present discontents . 2d . ed . by Dodsley , p . 104. 2 Ib . 3 See his speech on pre- 100 . p . senting his plan for official reforms . Ed . 1780. p . 92 . Did foreign courts want confidence in Edward the ...
... Thoughts on the causes of the present discontents . 2d . ed . by Dodsley , p . 104. 2 Ib . 3 See his speech on pre- 100 . p . senting his plan for official reforms . Ed . 1780. p . 92 . Did foreign courts want confidence in Edward the ...
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Halaman 106 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Halaman 61 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength?
Halaman 114 - ... his charitable toils for the relief of India, did not forget the poor rotten constitution of his native country. For her, he did not disdain to stoop to the trade of a wholesale upholsterer for this house, to furnish it not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach some other houses, but with real, solid, living patterns of true modern virtue.
Halaman 60 - our children;" but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone. Is it because the natural resistance of things, and the various mutations of time...
Halaman 95 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Halaman 14 - States and a corresponding amendment of the Constitution, be applied in time of peace to rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education and other great objects within each State. In time of war, if injustice by ourselves or others must sometimes produce war, increased as the same revenue will be...
Halaman 116 - Eastern harlot ; which so many of the people, so many of the nobles of tlns land, had drained to the very dregs. Do you think that no reckoning was to follow this lewd debauch? that no payment was to be demanded for this riot of public drunkenness, and national prostitution ? Here ! you have it, here, before you.
Halaman 66 - ... convicted, shall be subject and liable to such pains and penalties, as by any law now in force persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury are subject and liable to.
Halaman 14 - ... the revenue thereby liberated may, by a just repartition among the states, and a corresponding amendment of the constitution, be applied, in time of peace, to rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects within each state.
Halaman 158 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.