The Quarterly Review, 163. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1886 |
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... brought forward by the consuls of the same year . It inflicted a heavy fine on the candidate who should employ bribery , whether successful or not , and it deprived him for ever of the right of holding an office or sitting in the Senate ...
... brought forward by the consuls of the same year . It inflicted a heavy fine on the candidate who should employ bribery , whether successful or not , and it deprived him for ever of the right of holding an office or sitting in the Senate ...
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... brought about the disfranchisement of Sudbury . In 1764 we find Lord Chesterfield advising his son to try to secure 1000l . for the surrender of his seat , which had cost him 5000l . at the opening of Parliament . In 1812 Lord Vernon ...
... brought about the disfranchisement of Sudbury . In 1764 we find Lord Chesterfield advising his son to try to secure 1000l . for the surrender of his seat , which had cost him 5000l . at the opening of Parliament . In 1812 Lord Vernon ...
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... brought down from London , and was engaged till a late hour on the polling day in paying voters two pounds apiece in a room in the Packhorse Inn . The plan of electioneering was to open two channels of expenditnre - one undisguised and ...
... brought down from London , and was engaged till a late hour on the polling day in paying voters two pounds apiece in a room in the Packhorse Inn . The plan of electioneering was to open two channels of expenditnre - one undisguised and ...
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... brought about ? To the Irish Nationalists are offered some twenty thousand Civil Service appointments to be divided amongst themselves , and some 2,000,000l . per annum ; to the Irish landlords , 50,000,000l . sterling ; to the Irish ...
... brought about ? To the Irish Nationalists are offered some twenty thousand Civil Service appointments to be divided amongst themselves , and some 2,000,000l . per annum ; to the Irish landlords , 50,000,000l . sterling ; to the Irish ...
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... brought its bane with its antidote . Modern legislation makes bribery very difficult , and consequently makes contests cheap . But who can be sure that he has escaped an election petition ? Who can tell how oft he offendeth ? What ...
... brought its bane with its antidote . Modern legislation makes bribery very difficult , and consequently makes contests cheap . But who can be sure that he has escaped an election petition ? Who can tell how oft he offendeth ? What ...
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