The Four Wars of the French Revolution, Issues 1-6 |
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... House of Lords acquitted him with- out leaving him to the impeachment of the House of Commons ; but those Peers did not , like the Roman senators , devote themselves to death in expiation of their crime . The consequences of this fatal ...
... House of Lords acquitted him with- out leaving him to the impeachment of the House of Commons ; but those Peers did not , like the Roman senators , devote themselves to death in expiation of their crime . The consequences of this fatal ...
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... House of Commons . " This clause underwent the same fate as the clause relating to the Privy Council ; for it was repealed by the Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of Queen AnÑE . no person * The Act of Settlement was to ...
... House of Commons . " This clause underwent the same fate as the clause relating to the Privy Council ; for it was repealed by the Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of Queen AnÑE . no person * The Act of Settlement was to ...
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... House of Commons , called " The Great Inquisition , " to exhibit articles of impeachment before the House of Peers , called " The Great Tribunal . " From that time everything passed in secret . No one knew or could know either who had ...
... House of Commons , called " The Great Inquisition , " to exhibit articles of impeachment before the House of Peers , called " The Great Tribunal . " From that time everything passed in secret . No one knew or could know either who had ...
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... House , and after orders had been given for the recommencement of hostilities . So true it is that knowledge after the event is good for nothing . TALLEYRAND'S note was published on the 24th of May , and already , that is to say , on ...
... House , and after orders had been given for the recommencement of hostilities . So true it is that knowledge after the event is good for nothing . TALLEYRAND'S note was published on the 24th of May , and already , that is to say , on ...
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... House from inter- meddling with the conduct of the Cabinet . That House had to carry them into power , but in no way to interfere with such power . The circumstances of the war here referred to furnish ad- mirable materials for the ...
... House from inter- meddling with the conduct of the Cabinet . That House had to carry them into power , but in no way to interfere with such power . The circumstances of the war here referred to furnish ad- mirable materials for the ...
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Page 13 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons.
Page 13 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 13 - That from and after the time that the further limitation by this Act shall take effect all matters and things relating to the well governing of this Kingdom which are properly cognizable in the Privy Council by the laws and customs of this Realm shall be transacted there, and all resolutions taken thereupon shall be signed by such of the Privy Council as shall advise and consent to the same.
Page 7 - Every society in which the separation of powers is not determined, has no Constitution." This truth, which was declared in words, was not realised in act. The judicial power as regards its higher functions was not then separated, and has never been since separated in France, either from the Legislative Power, or from the Executive Power.
Page 65 - His Majesty has thus replied to all the different accusations by which the Russian Government labours to justify the rupture of a connexion with has subsisted for ages, with reciprocal advantage to Great Britain and Russia ; and attempts to disguise the operation of that external influence by which Russia is driven into unjust hostilities for interests not her own.
Page 36 - In order to be assured that I have advanced nothing in this dispatch which does not accord with the views of the cabinets of the allied sovereigns, I have acquainted the plenipotentiaries of the high allied powers with the contents thereof...
Page 64 - Majesty forget thatthe first symptoms of reviving confidence, since the Peace of Tilsit, the only prospect of success in the endeavours of His Majesty's ambassador to restore the ancient good understanding between Great Britain and Russia, appeared when the intelligence of the siege of Copenhagen had been recently received at St. Petersburgh.
Page 61 - Russias, has excited in his majesty's mind the strongest sensations of astonishment and regret. His majesty was not unaware of the nature of those secret engagements which had been imposed upon Russia in the conferences of Tilsit. But his majesty had entertained the hope, that a review of the transactions of that unfortunate negotiation, and a just estimate of its effects upon the glory of the...
Page 58 - ... Prince Sovereign of the United Netherlands, within the term which shall be hereafter fixed, the Colonies, Factories, and Establishments, which were possessed by Holland at the commencement of the late war, viz.
Page 37 - The powers consequently declare, that Napoleon Bonaparte has placed himself without the pale of civil and social relations, and that as an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity of the world, he has rendered himself liable to public vengeance.