Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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Page 28
... votes ; and having made themselves masters of the court of pro- prietors , as well as extending a powerful cabal in other places as important , they so completely over- turned the authority of the court of directors at home and abroad ...
... votes ; and having made themselves masters of the court of pro- prietors , as well as extending a powerful cabal in other places as important , they so completely over- turned the authority of the court of directors at home and abroad ...
Page 97
... vote the impost and the army for the ordinary term , and then all will remain in the order already established . In the first case , the assembly will have divers means of influencing the king's will ; it may refuse the taxes ; it may ...
... vote the impost and the army for the ordinary term , and then all will remain in the order already established . In the first case , the assembly will have divers means of influencing the king's will ; it may refuse the taxes ; it may ...
Page 113
... votes were given without inquiry , argument , or conviction . A majority had determined to impeach ; opposite parties met each other , and justled in the dark , to perplex the political drama , and bring the hero to a tragick ...
... votes were given without inquiry , argument , or conviction . A majority had determined to impeach ; opposite parties met each other , and justled in the dark , to perplex the political drama , and bring the hero to a tragick ...
Page 114
... voting an im- peachment , may be compared to a grand jury , finding a bill of indictment for the crown : neither the one nor the other can be supposed to proceed , but upon the matter which is brought before them ; neither of them can ...
... voting an im- peachment , may be compared to a grand jury , finding a bill of indictment for the crown : neither the one nor the other can be supposed to proceed , but upon the matter which is brought before them ; neither of them can ...
Page 135
... votes on the question , that appears to me to be giving handsome credit to the majority for having voted from conviction and not from courtesy to the minister . To have supposed otherwise I dare not say , would have been a more natural ...
... votes on the question , that appears to me to be giving handsome credit to the majority for having voted from conviction and not from courtesy to the minister . To have supposed otherwise I dare not say , would have been a more natural ...
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