The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time ... Illustrated with a Great Variety of Historical and Explanatory Notes ... with a Large Appendix ...

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Σελίδα 158 - ... administration, or in any office under it, can rarely know the voice of the people.
Σελίδα 11 - ... after truth, has failed to attain it. For my part, I am not ashamed nor afraid to affirm, that thirty years have made no change in any of my political opinions ; I am now grown old in this house, but that experience which is the consequence of age, has only confirmed the principles with which I...
Σελίδα 187 - Lord 1729, ask, receive, or take any money or other reward, by way of gift, loan, or other device, or agree or contract for any money, gift, office, employment, or other reward whatsoever, to give...
Σελίδα 193 - Common fame is a sufficient ground for an inquisition at common law; and for the same reason the general voice of the people of England ought always to be regarded as a sufficient ground for a Parliamentary inquiry.
Σελίδα 121 - HOBART (according to order) reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe...
Σελίδα 103 - The order of the day being read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to take into confideration fo much of His Majefty's moft gracious fpeech.
Σελίδα xiv - Middlesex, sworn to enquire for our Sovereign Lord the King and the body of this County, conceiving the same to be...
Σελίδα 158 - I hope there is a majority of us who know what is the voice of the people ; and if it be admitted by all that the nation is at...
Σελίδα 164 - At the time this treaty was entered into, we wanted nothing from the Emperor upon our own account. The abolition of the Ostend Company was a demand we had no right to make, nor was it essentially...
Σελίδα 201 - ... finking fund, the like fum paid out of the fame, to make good the deficiency of the duty...

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