The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Հատոր 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
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... votes being given for more tangible reasons than political convic- tions , the proceedings on the hustings were rendered consid- erably less attractive than they otherwise would have been . Nor were such speeches as were made reported ...
... votes being given for more tangible reasons than political convic- tions , the proceedings on the hustings were rendered consid- erably less attractive than they otherwise would have been . Nor were such speeches as were made reported ...
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... votes polled by the successful candidate was under 100. This election was , how- ever , a specially quiet one . 1 See The Gentleman's Magazine , May 1761 . 2 Durham and Hertfordshire . Lord Stanhope , in his History of England , ' 16 ...
... votes polled by the successful candidate was under 100. This election was , how- ever , a specially quiet one . 1 See The Gentleman's Magazine , May 1761 . 2 Durham and Hertfordshire . Lord Stanhope , in his History of England , ' 16 ...
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... 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 necessitated a moderate use of it , it had little or no influence ...
... 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 necessitated a moderate use of it , it had little or no influence ...
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... vote with the Treasury Bench , and as those who sat there were fre- quently changed in these last seven years , the resolutions of the House became as various and contradictory . No peace that shall leave the two branches of the house ...
... vote with the Treasury Bench , and as those who sat there were fre- quently changed in these last seven years , the resolutions of the House became as various and contradictory . No peace that shall leave the two branches of the house ...
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... voted this letter " an insolent and scandalous and sedi- tious libel , ' " 2 and upon motion made he was expelled the House by 219 votes against 137 , a majority of 82 , " which is a much smaller one than one could either wish or expect ...
... voted this letter " an insolent and scandalous and sedi- tious libel , ' " 2 and upon motion made he was expelled the House by 219 votes against 137 , a majority of 82 , " which is a much smaller one than one could either wish or expect ...
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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...