The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Հատոր 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
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... returned as members , and only in some cases giving the num- ber of votes . From all which we may conclude that though the Plat- form was to a certain extent actually in operation at election time , and though an election in some cases ...
... returned as members , and only in some cases giving the num- ber of votes . From all which we may conclude that though the Plat- form was to a certain extent actually in operation at election time , and though an election in some cases ...
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... returned home , and on the very eve of the general election appeared on the hustings in Guildhall , and declared himself a candidate for the city of London . 1 Burgh , in his Disquisitions ( vol . iii . p . 252 , 1775 ) , has described ...
... returned home , and on the very eve of the general election appeared on the hustings in Guildhall , and declared himself a candidate for the city of London . 1 Burgh , in his Disquisitions ( vol . iii . p . 252 , 1775 ) , has described ...
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... returned for that county at the top of the poll . As an outlaw he could not have legally stood for Parliament ; but the Lord Chief - Justice having decided that the outlawry was illegal , he was freed from all disqualification on that ...
... returned for that county at the top of the poll . As an outlaw he could not have legally stood for Parliament ; but the Lord Chief - Justice having decided that the outlawry was illegal , he was freed from all disqualification on that ...
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... returned , decided that Colonel Luttrell was duly elected , and gave him the seat . " The action of the House of Commons , " wrote the King complacently to Lord North , 2 " must greatly tend to destroy that outrageous licentiousness ...
... returned , decided that Colonel Luttrell was duly elected , and gave him the seat . " The action of the House of Commons , " wrote the King complacently to Lord North , 2 " must greatly tend to destroy that outrageous licentiousness ...
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... returned as Member for Middlesex . Taught wisdom by experience , and unwilling to stir up a fresh out- 1 Parliamentary History , vol . xvi . p . 879 . burst of Platform agitation , the King and the Government CHAP . II TEMPORARY TRIUMPH ...
... returned as Member for Middlesex . Taught wisdom by experience , and unwilling to stir up a fresh out- 1 Parliamentary History , vol . xvi . p . 879 . burst of Platform agitation , the King and the Government CHAP . II TEMPORARY TRIUMPH ...
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Էջ 71 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Էջ 70 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Էջ 20 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Էջ 70 - ... live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention.
Էջ 88 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Էջ 71 - If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the community, the member for that place ought to be as far, as any other, from any endeavour to give it effect.
Էջ 56 - The power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength and far less odium, under the name of influence.
Էջ 102 - I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said, that, in the long period of my service, I have in a single instance sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition, or to my fortune. It is not alleged, that to gratify any anger or revenge of my own, or of my party...
Էջ 436 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
Էջ 133 - II. st. 1, c. 5, that no petition to the king, or either house of parliament, for alteration of matters established by law in church or state...