A history of the political life of the rt. hon. W. Pitt, by John Gifford, Band 2 |
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... present instance , was not , whether they were injurious to liberty or not , but whether they were not sufficiently sanctioned , by prescription , to justify the King in using them . - But this was almost the only point to which the ...
... present instance , was not , whether they were injurious to liberty or not , but whether they were not sufficiently sanctioned , by prescription , to justify the King in using them . - But this was almost the only point to which the ...
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... present any such addresses in future . This prohibition had no effect on the Par- liament , who continued to debate , to resolve , and to circulate their resolutions , which were admirably formed to work upon the passions . of the ...
... present any such addresses in future . This prohibition had no effect on the Par- liament , who continued to debate , to resolve , and to circulate their resolutions , which were admirably formed to work upon the passions . of the ...
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... present time , the King had constantly exercised , the right of levying taxes on his subjects ; and the Parliament had regis- tered those taxes . It would have been but decent in the Parliament to wait for the King's communication of ...
... present time , the King had constantly exercised , the right of levying taxes on his subjects ; and the Parliament had regis- tered those taxes . It would have been but decent in the Parliament to wait for the King's communication of ...
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... present , it had always been customary for them to adjourn . Mr. Pitt , therefore , proposed , ( and the House unanimously agreed ) to adjourn for a fortnight , observing , that should his Majesty's illness be , unhappily , protracted ...
... present , it had always been customary for them to adjourn . Mr. Pitt , therefore , proposed , ( and the House unanimously agreed ) to adjourn for a fortnight , observing , that should his Majesty's illness be , unhappily , protracted ...
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... present , Mr. Pitt declared , that he would , at a proper opportunity , state his reasons for advising what steps Parliament ought to take in the present critical situation of the country , contenting himself with giving his ...
... present , Mr. Pitt declared , that he would , at a proper opportunity , state his reasons for advising what steps Parliament ought to take in the present critical situation of the country , contenting himself with giving his ...
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A History of the Political Life of the Rt. Hon. W. Pitt, by John Gifford John Richards Green Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 119 - ... The prince. however,. holding as he does, that it is an undoubted and fundamental principle of this constitution, that the powers and prerogatives of the crown are vested there, as a trust for the benefit of the people ; and that they are sacred...
Seite 434 - ... be attempted, and that any friend of his could concur in such measures, (he was far, very far, from believing they could,) he would abandon his best friends, and join with his worst enemies to oppose either the means or the end...
Seite 121 - Pitt, nor proper, to suggest to the prince the restraint he proposes against the prince's granting away the king's real and personal property. The prince does not conceive, that, during the king's life, he is, by law, entitled to make any such grant ; and he is sure, that he has never shown the smallest inclination to possess any such power.
Seite 117 - ... disjoining government from its natural and accustomed support, a scheme for disconnecting the authority to command service, from the power of animating it by reward; and for allotting to the prince all the invidious duties of government, without the means of softening them to the public, by any one act of grace, favour, or benignity.
Seite 120 - If attention to what is presumed might be his majesty's feelings and wishes on the happy day of his recovery be the object, it is with the truest sincerity the prince expresses his firm conviction, that no event would be more repugnant to the feelings of his royal father, than the knowledge that the government of his son and representative had exhibited the sovereign power of the realm in a state of degradation...
Seite 438 - ... against their masters ; tradesmen against their customers ; artificers against their employers; tenants against their landlords: curates against their bishops; and children against their parents. That this cause of theirs was not an enemy to servitude, but to society. He wished the house to consider, how the members would like to have their mansions pulled down and pillaged, their persons abused, insulted, and destroyed; their title deeds brought out and burned before their faces...
Seite 72 - Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm...
Seite 440 - What we did was in truth and substance, and in a constitutional light ; — a revolution not made, but prevented. We took solid securities : we settled doubtful questions: we corrected anomalies in our law. In the staple, fundamental parts of our constitution, we made no revolution ; no, nor any alteration at all.
Seite 113 - Majesty; with provisions, nevertheless, that the care of his Majesty's royal person, and the management of his Majesty's household, and the direction and appointment of the officers and servants therein, should be in the Queen, under such regulations as may be thought necessary.
Seite 114 - I beg leave to add, that their ideas are formed on the supposition that his Majesty's illness is only temporary, and may be of no long duration.