History of Cabinets: From the Union with Scotland to the Acquisition of Canada and Bengal, 第 1 卷W.H. Allen, 1894 |
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... Wyndham to answer for the Commons ; Somerset , Master of the Horse , and Paulet , Steward of the Household ; Bolingbroke and Bromley , Secretaries of State , had all been duly summoned , and who beside we may surmise but cannot tell ...
... Wyndham to answer for the Commons ; Somerset , Master of the Horse , and Paulet , Steward of the Household ; Bolingbroke and Bromley , Secretaries of State , had all been duly summoned , and who beside we may surmise but cannot tell ...
第 51 頁
... Wyndham , being Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons ; but nothing was resolved on , and the Council was adjourned till further summoned . To meet the Chancellor , the Viceroy , Wyndham , and Ormond ...
... Wyndham , being Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons ; but nothing was resolved on , and the Council was adjourned till further summoned . To meet the Chancellor , the Viceroy , Wyndham , and Ormond ...
第 57 頁
... Wyndham . So far , the lines seemed to have fallen to Bolingbroke in pleasant places , and , reckoning upon Anne's continuance in life , he could afford , he fancied , to laugh at Swift's gloomy warnings of danger at hand ; but the ...
... Wyndham . So far , the lines seemed to have fallen to Bolingbroke in pleasant places , and , reckoning upon Anne's continuance in life , he could afford , he fancied , to laugh at Swift's gloomy warnings of danger at hand ; but the ...
第 64 頁
... Wyndham , whom the majority would have preferred . There was evidently no disposition to array the strength of opposing Parties in conflict prematurely , and on the 25th August Parliament was prorogued . For the ensuing months the ...
... Wyndham , whom the majority would have preferred . There was evidently no disposition to array the strength of opposing Parties in conflict prematurely , and on the 25th August Parliament was prorogued . For the ensuing months the ...
第 80 頁
... Wyndham and Gwyn ) to the friend who had steadily adhered to him in his time of trouble , and whose repute as a debater was already deemed superior to his own . So Pulteney became Secretary at War . Craggs offered himself in preference ...
... Wyndham and Gwyn ) to the friend who had steadily adhered to him in his time of trouble , and whose repute as a debater was already deemed superior to his own . So Pulteney became Secretary at War . Craggs offered himself in preference ...
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第 431 頁 - Let us further suppose him arrived to that degree of insolence and arrogance, as to domineer over all the men of ancient families, all the men of sense, figure, or fortune in the nation, and as he has no virtue of his own, ridiculing it in others, and endeavouring to destroy or corrupt it in all.
第 554 頁 - Indies, or any indorsement or assignment thereon, or on any bond or obligation under the common seal of the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America...
第 555 頁 - America,' and to make further provision for the government of the said province of Quebec in North America," and it is hereby declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all persons...
第 489 頁 - This Convention, Sir, I think from my soul is nothing but a stipulation for national ignominy; an illusory expedient to baffle the resentment of the nation; a truce without a suspension of hostilities on the part of Spain; on the part of England a suspension, as to Georgia, of the first law of nature, self-preservation and self-defence...
第 520 頁 - ... being corrupted? A strange phenomenon, a corrupter himself not corrupt! Is ambition imputed to me? Why then do I still continue a commoner? I, who refused a white staff and a peerage? I had, indeed, like to have forgotten the little ornament about my shoulders [the garter], which gentlemen have so repeatedly mentioned in terms of sarcastic obloquy.
第 489 頁 - Assiento contract is to be suspended; you are to purchase this sum at the price of an exclusive trade, pursuant to a national treaty, and of an immense debt of God knows how many hundred thousand pounds due from Spain to the South Sea Company.
第 519 頁 - That demerit with my opponents ought to be considered as merit with others. But my great and principal crime is my long continuance in office ; or, in other words, the long exclusion of those who now complain against me. This is the heinous offence which exceeds all others. I keep from them the possession of that power, those honours, and those emoluments, to which they so ardently and pertinaciously aspire.
第 431 頁 - Suppose him next possessed of great wealth, the plunder of the nation, with a parliament of his own choosing, most of their seats purchased, and their votes bought at the expense of the public treasure. In such a parliament, let us suppose attempts made to inquire into his conduct, or to relieve the nation from the distress he has brought upon it...
第 61 頁 - ... be of to him : that I would live civilly with them, if they were so to me, but would never put it into the power of any king to use me ill. He was entirely of this opinion, and determined to quit all, and serve them only when he could act honestly, and do his country service at the same time.
第 63 頁 - The removal of the lord Bolingbroke has put a seasonable check to an interest that was making in many places for members in the next parliament, and was very much relished by the people, who ascribed to him in a great measure the decay of trade and public credit.