The Crown and Its Advisers: Or, Queen, Ministers, Lords, & Commons |
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... owing to failure of sight , employed one for the first time - a precedent which was followed by George IV . , William IV . , and our gracious Queen . This appointment has been opposed as unconstitutional , because it allows the secrets ...
... owing to failure of sight , employed one for the first time - a precedent which was followed by George IV . , William IV . , and our gracious Queen . This appointment has been opposed as unconstitutional , because it allows the secrets ...
Page 50
... stated . that much of the power which formerly belonged to English sovereigns had , owing to the development of the system of parliamentary government , been DIVIDED . INTO THREE CLASSES . 51 delegated to the THE MINISTRY,
... stated . that much of the power which formerly belonged to English sovereigns had , owing to the development of the system of parliamentary government , been DIVIDED . INTO THREE CLASSES . 51 delegated to the THE MINISTRY,
Page 87
... owing to the increase of business consequent upon the Union of Scotland . But a vacancy occurring in this office in 1746 , the third secretaryship was dispensed with till 1768 , when it was again created to take charge of the increasing ...
... owing to the increase of business consequent upon the Union of Scotland . But a vacancy occurring in this office in 1746 , the third secretaryship was dispensed with till 1768 , when it was again created to take charge of the increasing ...
Page 95
... and the conveyance of emigrants to the various colonies . Owing to the establishment of responsible government in many of our colonies , the correspondence of the Colonial Office has much decreased ; and as much of this correspondence is ...
... and the conveyance of emigrants to the various colonies . Owing to the establishment of responsible government in many of our colonies , the correspondence of the Colonial Office has much decreased ; and as much of this correspondence is ...
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... owing to it being inconvenient for these high officers of state to attend the committee meetings , the office has by degrees become departmental , so that at the present time the Board of Trade means the President , who , with the aid ...
... owing to it being inconvenient for these high officers of state to attend the committee meetings , the office has by degrees become departmental , so that at the present time the Board of Trade means the President , who , with the aid ...
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Page 83 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent.
Page 83 - ... raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug...
Page 11 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Page 217 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 220 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Page 222 - ... of despotism, or the licentiousness of unbridled freedom — reconciling power with liberty : not adopting hasty or ill-advised experiments, or pursuing any airy and unsubstantial theories ; but not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the service of his country any generous and liberal principles, whose excess, indeed, may be dangerous, but whose foundation is in truth.
Page 83 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid...
Page 11 - Will you to the utmost of your " power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the " gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established " by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 83 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, to be taxed no more.
Page 77 - He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics ; and has the general superintendence of all charitable uses in the kingdom. And all this over and above the vast and extensive jurisdiction which he exercises in his judicial capacity in the court of chancery...