| University of Sydney - 1901 - 644 páginas
...and illustrate. ;!. Sketch the policy of the Whigs during the reigns of the first two Georges. 4. " 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." Explain Burke's meaning,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 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... | |
| Thomas Paine, Thomas Clio Rickman - 1908 - 476 páginas
...FORMS OF A FREE AND THE ENDS OF AN ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT WERE THINGS NOT ALTOGETHER INCOMPATIBLE. 177 " 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 operates... | |
| Herbert Arthur Smith - 1909 - 36 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. . . . Every age has its own manners, and its politics dependent upon... | |
| Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 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 Barrett Learned - 1912 - 492 páginas
...on the public business according to their opinions."" George III had endeavored to change all this. "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."48 To this influence,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1919 - 328 páginas
...from the loss of national glory, might feel every blow of fortune as a crime in government. ******* 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... | |
| Robert Roswell Palmer - 1959 - 552 páginas
...Parliament itself, like the Stuarts in times gone by, but that he threatened parliamentary independence. "The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew under the name of Influence." It was a popular error, too, to favor structural changes in the... | |
| William Roger Louis - 1984 - 828 páginas
...spirit of our age, were invoked against it. But latterly, as in the England of King George the Third, 'the power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew [because of the Regent], with far more strength and far less odium, under the name of influence.'... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 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... | |
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