A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, 8. köideD. Appleton, 1890 |
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... measure.— Castlereagh's defence The commercial clauses . - Concessions to the cotton manufacturers Foster and Edgeworth describe the means by which the measure was carried Government majorities . - The compensation clauses carried Sir ...
... measure.— Castlereagh's defence The commercial clauses . - Concessions to the cotton manufacturers Foster and Edgeworth describe the means by which the measure was carried Government majorities . - The compensation clauses carried Sir ...
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... measure required by an extreme necessity , but if it was not to be made the instrument of intolerable tyranny it must be scrupulously limited , and its application carefully watched . Nothing could be more clear , nothing could be more ...
... measure required by an extreme necessity , but if it was not to be made the instrument of intolerable tyranny it must be scrupulously limited , and its application carefully watched . Nothing could be more clear , nothing could be more ...
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky. the stringent measures of Cornwallis and of some of the general officers to maintain ... measure of Government . ' ( Castlereagh Corre- sondence , i . 425 , 426. ) Lord Ennis- killen seems to have shown ...
William Edward Hartpole Lecky. the stringent measures of Cornwallis and of some of the general officers to maintain ... measure of Government . ' ( Castlereagh Corre- sondence , i . 425 , 426. ) Lord Ennis- killen seems to have shown ...
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... measure was carried probably largely by corruption . It was certainly for more than a generation bitterly unpopular in the weaker country , but it bound the two nations together by an indissoluble tie , and the immense commercial ...
... measure was carried probably largely by corruption . It was certainly for more than a generation bitterly unpopular in the weaker country , but it bound the two nations together by an indissoluble tie , and the immense commercial ...
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... measure of an incorporating Union was a favourite object of the late Earl of Chatham , and that particularly in the year 1763 he often mentioned it as a matter of great benefit and importance to Great Britain , and that he formed to ...
... measure of an incorporating Union was a favourite object of the late Earl of Chatham , and that particularly in the year 1763 he often mentioned it as a matter of great benefit and importance to Great Britain , and that he formed to ...
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Page 318 - The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands, for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
Page 318 - When any one, or more, shall take upon them to make laws whom the people have not appointed so to do, they make laws without authority, which the people are not therefore bound to obey; by which means they come again to be out of subjection, and may constitute to themselves a new legislative, as they think best, being in full liberty to resist the force of those who, without authority, would impose anything upon them.
Page 447 - Ireland, and that the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the said United Church shall be, and shall remain in full force for ever, as the same are now by law established for the Church of England ; and that the continuance and preservation of the United Church, as the Established Church of England and Ireland...
Page 489 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 338 - That, in the appointment of the prelates of the Roman Catholic religion to vacant sees within the kingdom, such interference of government as may enable it to be satisfied of the loyalty of the person appointed, is just, and ought to be agreed to.
Page 231 - I mean not to give you the trouble of bringing judicial proof to convict me legally of having acted in hostility to the Government of His Britannic Majesty in Ireland. I admit the fact. From my earliest youth...
Page 135 - ... proclamation, which was countersigned by his adjutant-general Breen, and was printed, and widely distributed among all the rebel forces through the county. It laid down stringent rules of discipline under pain of death, and appointed courts-martial to enforce them.