| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 516 páginas
...or rustic villages — No ! we will have her to exalt her mitred front in courts and parliaments." " A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is worn to rags ; the rest is entirely out of fashion." " No lines can be laid down for civil or political wisdom. They are... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...part of the history of such of our families as are not utterly extinguished by them. BURKE : 204 205 The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, wilh much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence. An influence which... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1880 - 552 páginas
...forms of a free, and the ends of an arbitrary government, were things not altogether incompatible. " 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. An influence which operated... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 páginas
...municipalities or rustic villages. No ! we will have her to exalt her mitred front in Courts and Parliaments." " A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is worn to rags ; the rest is entirely out of fashion." " No lines can be laid down for civil or political wisdom. They are... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 492 páginas
...from the late hours. Ante,\. 434. 3 See ante, ii. 312. 4 Burke, in Present Discontents, says : — ' 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.' Influence he explains... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1887 - 574 páginas
...ever the same general views, has not at all tunes the same means, nor the same particular objects. A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is worn to rags ; the rest is entirely out of fashion. Besides, there are few statesmen so very clumsy and awkward in their... | |
| James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 páginas
...from the late hours. Ante, i. 434. 3 See ante, ii. 312. 4 Burke, in Present Discontents, says : — ' 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.' Influence he explains... | |
| Arthur Waugh - 1897 - 364 páginas
...ever the same general views, has not at all times the same means, nor the same particular objects. A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is worn to rags ; the rest is entirely out of fashion. Besides, there are few Statesmen so very clumsy and awkward in their... | |
| Henry Jones Ford - 1898 - 446 páginas
...dependent upon corrupt inducements and transient combinations.1 The crown, lords, and commons were 1 " The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength and far less not in fact distinct and independent depositaries of authority... | |
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