Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume 1 |
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... parliament ; the jurisdiction of Courts ; the principles , nay , even the details of banking , or of trade generally ; the East India or Colonial affairs of his Empire ; the interests of foreign countries ; the statis- tics of his own ...
... parliament ; the jurisdiction of Courts ; the principles , nay , even the details of banking , or of trade generally ; the East India or Colonial affairs of his Empire ; the interests of foreign countries ; the statis- tics of his own ...
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... parliament and the country ; if we find him one day commenting on the line taken in debate as " dangerous , " at another as " timid and vascillating , " or discussing the composition of the majority or its numbers upon the divi- sion ...
... parliament and the country ; if we find him one day commenting on the line taken in debate as " dangerous , " at another as " timid and vascillating , " or discussing the composition of the majority or its numbers upon the divi- sion ...
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... parliament . They reduce the king more completely to the condition of a state pageant or state cipher than one of Abbé Sieyes's constitutions did , when he proposed to have a Grand Functionary with no power except to give away offices ...
... parliament . They reduce the king more completely to the condition of a state pageant or state cipher than one of Abbé Sieyes's constitutions did , when he proposed to have a Grand Functionary with no power except to give away offices ...
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... parliament chooses , and eating his own mess in quiet . Now , with all the disposition in the world to desire that Royal prerogative should be restricted , and the will of the nation govern the national affairs , we cannot com- prehend ...
... parliament chooses , and eating his own mess in quiet . Now , with all the disposition in the world to desire that Royal prerogative should be restricted , and the will of the nation govern the national affairs , we cannot com- prehend ...
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... Parliamentary Reporting is the great cause of this blank . From the time of his enter- ing the House of Commons to that of his quitting it , the privileges of Parliament almost wholly precluded the possibility of regular and full ...
... Parliamentary Reporting is the great cause of this blank . From the time of his enter- ing the House of Commons to that of his quitting it , the privileges of Parliament almost wholly precluded the possibility of regular and full ...
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