The Black Book: Or, Corruption Unmasked!, Volume 1J. Fairburn, 1820 - Great Britain |
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... , injustice , and extravagance , and which ex- ists in opposition to the wishes and interests of the people , it is the object of this work to expose . AV 3 & . THE Black Book ; OR , CORRUPTION 4 DEDICATION AND INTRODUCTION .
... , injustice , and extravagance , and which ex- ists in opposition to the wishes and interests of the people , it is the object of this work to expose . AV 3 & . THE Black Book ; OR , CORRUPTION 4 DEDICATION AND INTRODUCTION .
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... interest , nearly two millions of the public money . The two sinecures , of clerk of parliament and clerk of exchequer pleas , were conveyed by letters patent , in reversion , from old Rose to his sons , and is one of the most impudent ...
... interest , nearly two millions of the public money . The two sinecures , of clerk of parliament and clerk of exchequer pleas , were conveyed by letters patent , in reversion , from old Rose to his sons , and is one of the most impudent ...
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... interest must have drawn from the public more than two millions of money . Lord George Seymour , besides his commissionership of excise , till lately held the situations of naval officer and harbour master at Frederickstedt and St ...
... interest must have drawn from the public more than two millions of money . Lord George Seymour , besides his commissionership of excise , till lately held the situations of naval officer and harbour master at Frederickstedt and St ...
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... interest was to be touched ; and it was only at the death of the possessors of sinecures that they were to be abolished . A most erroneous principle ; because public offices being instituted for the benefit of the pub- lic , it is right ...
... interest was to be touched ; and it was only at the death of the possessors of sinecures that they were to be abolished . A most erroneous principle ; because public offices being instituted for the benefit of the pub- lic , it is right ...
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... interests are , more or less , identified with the continuance of the borough- system . 3 For greater perspicuity in this article , we shall give an account of the Police in the following order : -First , a general account of these ...
... interests are , more or less , identified with the continuance of the borough- system . 3 For greater perspicuity in this article , we shall give an account of the Police in the following order : -First , a general account of these ...
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Page 446 - 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 384 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 276 - Because they .promise them both by their Sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform.
Page 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 279 - At the first establishment of parochial clergy the tithes of the parish were distributed in a fourfold division, — one for the use of the bishop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent.
Page 330 - They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Page 113 - But when the reason of old establishments is gone, it is absurd to preserve nothing but the burthen of them. This is superstitiously to embalm a carcass not worth an ounce of the gums that are used to preserve it.
Page 394 - Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland, High Steward of Plymouth, Colonel of the 10th Regiment of Dragoons, and Capt.-General of the Hon.
Page 114 - ... all courts, in all ages, JOBS, were still alive ; for whose sake alone it is that any trace of ancient grandeur is suffered to remain. These palaces are a true emblem of some governments ; the inhabitants are decayed, but the governors and magistrates still flourish. They put me in mind of Old...
Page 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.