Critical and historical essaysDent, 1966 |
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Page 134
... voted for the Bill of Attainder . Certainly none of them voted against it . They had all agreed to the act which made the consent of the Parliament necessary to a dissolution or prorogation . Hyde had been among the most active of those ...
... voted for the Bill of Attainder . Certainly none of them voted against it . They had all agreed to the act which made the consent of the Parliament necessary to a dissolution or prorogation . Hyde had been among the most active of those ...
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... votes of constituents is as immoral as to buy the votes of representatives . The candi- date who gives five guineas to the freeman is as culpable as the man who gives three hundred guineas to the member . Yet we know that , in our own ...
... votes of constituents is as immoral as to buy the votes of representatives . The candi- date who gives five guineas to the freeman is as culpable as the man who gives three hundred guineas to the member . Yet we know that , in our own ...
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... vote . " But in truth all Clive's views were directed towards the country in which he had so eminently distinguished himself as a soldier and a statesman ; and it was by considerations relating to India that his conduct as a public man ...
... vote . " But in truth all Clive's views were directed towards the country in which he had so eminently distinguished himself as a soldier and a statesman ; and it was by considerations relating to India that his conduct as a public man ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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