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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... descendants of those who have borne an eminent part in affairs have not scattered the relics and records of their dead , and from private collections and VOL . I. B public archives we may gradually find our way to a INTRODUCTION. ...
... descendants of those who have borne an eminent part in affairs have not scattered the relics and records of their dead , and from private collections and VOL . I. B public archives we may gradually find our way to a INTRODUCTION. ...
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... Affairs had always been regarded as the peculiar function of the Sovereign . Charles I. had been as absolute as Elizabeth in diplomacy , and no branch of the prero- gative was clutched more exclusively by Cromwell . Even indolent and ...
... Affairs had always been regarded as the peculiar function of the Sovereign . Charles I. had been as absolute as Elizabeth in diplomacy , and no branch of the prero- gative was clutched more exclusively by Cromwell . Even indolent and ...
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... affairs , William's superior energy of character led him to meddle per- sonally in the administration of various departments . When complaints reached him of delays in paying the troops , he would ride down to the Treasury and inquire ...
... affairs , William's superior energy of character led him to meddle per- sonally in the administration of various departments . When complaints reached him of delays in paying the troops , he would ride down to the Treasury and inquire ...
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... affairs , Mary was not blinded by the airs of departmental wisdom likely to be assumed by more than one of her several advisers . " Carmarthen was the person the King had particularly recommended to me , and he was one to whom I must ...
... affairs , Mary was not blinded by the airs of departmental wisdom likely to be assumed by more than one of her several advisers . " Carmarthen was the person the King had particularly recommended to me , and he was one to whom I must ...
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... affairs of his special department . She bore herself worthily amid a sea of troubles . Perplexity and anxiety breathe in every page of her journals and letters . " She saw all those she was to trust , together by the ears ; and a ...
... affairs of his special department . She bore herself worthily amid a sea of troubles . Perplexity and anxiety breathe in every page of her journals and letters . " She saw all those she was to trust , together by the ears ; and a ...
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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.