The Beauties of the British Senate: Taken from the Debates of the Lords and Commons, from the Beginning of the Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, to the End of the Second Session of the Administration of the Right Hon. William Pitt : Being an Impartial Selection Of, Or Faithful Extracts From, the Most Eminent Speeches ... , with the Names of the Members, to Whom They are Ascribed, Annexed Thereto : to which is Prefixed, the Life of Sir Robert Walpole, Volume 2John Stockdale, 1786 - 351 páginas |
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Página 23
... corruption and plunder . The temptation is not fo great in England . The Commiffioners are to act at hand , and to be under the im- mediate eye of Parliament . Where , then , is the danger fo loudly trumpeted forth to the world , and fo ...
... corruption and plunder . The temptation is not fo great in England . The Commiffioners are to act at hand , and to be under the im- mediate eye of Parliament . Where , then , is the danger fo loudly trumpeted forth to the world , and fo ...
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... the friend of his politics . The Minifter , it is true , of a corrupt majority of the House of Commons , where the people now are , as he fays ; but not the Minifter Minifter of the people , as when mounted on his 34 BEAUTIES OF THE.
... the friend of his politics . The Minifter , it is true , of a corrupt majority of the House of Commons , where the people now are , as he fays ; but not the Minifter Minifter of the people , as when mounted on his 34 BEAUTIES OF THE.
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... corrupt majority in Parliament , with a rod of iron ? And yet , my Lords , this is the propofition in totidem verbis ; a pro- pofition to wreft the reigns of government out of the hands of the executive power , and to place it in the ...
... corrupt majority in Parliament , with a rod of iron ? And yet , my Lords , this is the propofition in totidem verbis ; a pro- pofition to wreft the reigns of government out of the hands of the executive power , and to place it in the ...
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... corruption as these are , and I must be , what the Minifter of the People is not , a very filly politician indeed , if I do not purchase a fee fimple in the premises for ever after . But this is not all , my Lords ; for let us look for ...
... corruption as these are , and I must be , what the Minifter of the People is not , a very filly politician indeed , if I do not purchase a fee fimple in the premises for ever after . But this is not all , my Lords ; for let us look for ...
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... of interest does at all exift . On the contrary , I am certain that every means effectual to preferve India from oppreffion , is a guard to to preferve the British conftitution from its worst corruption , 42 BEAUTIES OF THE.
... of interest does at all exift . On the contrary , I am certain that every means effectual to preferve India from oppreffion , is a guard to to preferve the British conftitution from its worst corruption , 42 BEAUTIES OF THE.
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