The History of England, المجلد 2A. J. Valpy, 1835 |
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... majority , reducing the land - tax for the present year to three shillings in the pound . In the language of the day , it was said , that the country gentlemen had bribed themselves with a shilling in the pound of their own land - tax ...
... majority , reducing the land - tax for the present year to three shillings in the pound . In the language of the day , it was said , that the country gentlemen had bribed themselves with a shilling in the pound of their own land - tax ...
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... majority . The ministry however were more closely run , when Sir G. Saville , a member of opposition , made a motion for introducing into the commons a bill for settling and securing the possessions of the subject from all obsolete ...
... majority . The ministry however were more closely run , when Sir G. Saville , a member of opposition , made a motion for introducing into the commons a bill for settling and securing the possessions of the subject from all obsolete ...
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... majority of only twenty , that ministers could obtain a postponement of the bill to the ensuing session . The clamor against them out of doors was greater than within : Sir James Lowther was son - in - law of lord Bute , and a strong ...
... majority of only twenty , that ministers could obtain a postponement of the bill to the ensuing session . The clamor against them out of doors was greater than within : Sir James Lowther was son - in - law of lord Bute , and a strong ...
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... majority , as the grant was reversed by the court of exchequer , in November , 1771 ; the reserved rent , on which he obtained the lease from the crown , being less than one third of the clear annual value of the estate , contrary to a ...
... majority , as the grant was reversed by the court of exchequer , in November , 1771 ; the reserved rent , on which he obtained the lease from the crown , being less than one third of the clear annual value of the estate , contrary to a ...
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... majority : Sir Francis however was instructed , if they should obstinately decline to rescind their resolutions , to dissolve the assembly , and send an account of their proceedings , to be laid before parliament . This requisition was ...
... majority : Sir Francis however was instructed , if they should obstinately decline to rescind their resolutions , to dissolve the assembly , and send an account of their proceedings , to be laid before parliament . This requisition was ...
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الصفحة 192 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
الصفحة 339 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
الصفحة 338 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
الصفحة 192 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
الصفحة 43 - Majesty's servants, at the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mr. Wilkes and at the expense of the Constitution...
الصفحة 190 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
الصفحة 191 - My idea, therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right or grant as matter of favor, is, to admit the people of our colonies into an interest in the Constitution, and, by recording that admission in the...
الصفحة 177 - Their situation is truly unworthy, penned up— pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army of impotence. You may call them an army of safety and of guard; but they are in truth an army of impotence and contempt; and, to make the folly equal to the disgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation.
الصفحة 134 - I know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies...
الصفحة 180 - A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.