Historical Register1735 Containing an impartial relation of all transactions, foreign and domestick: with a Chronological diary of all the remarkable occurrences, viz. births, marriages, deaths, removals, promotions, etc. that happened throughout the year: together with the characters and parentage of persons deceased on the eminent rank ... |
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... Elections . I think nothing is more demonftrable , than that frequent Elections will always occafion frequent Expences , and other Irregula- rities too notorious not to lie within the Compass of every Man's Obfervation ; and that Men's ...
... Elections . I think nothing is more demonftrable , than that frequent Elections will always occafion frequent Expences , and other Irregula- rities too notorious not to lie within the Compass of every Man's Obfervation ; and that Men's ...
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... a fundamental Maxim in what is call'd our old Con- flitution , that there should be frequent Elections ; fure \ at least I am , if the Nature of A 2 N ° LXXVII for the Year 1735 . 3 by the Alteration proposed: If they had done this...
... a fundamental Maxim in what is call'd our old Con- flitution , that there should be frequent Elections ; fure \ at least I am , if the Nature of A 2 N ° LXXVII for the Year 1735 . 3 by the Alteration proposed: If they had done this...
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... Election , or how long the Power , they gave their Representatives when elected , might be continued to them : If we look back into our Hiftory , we shall find , in fome Reigns , Parliaments cho- fen by the People , and diffolved by the ...
... Election , or how long the Power , they gave their Representatives when elected , might be continued to them : If we look back into our Hiftory , we shall find , in fome Reigns , Parliaments cho- fen by the People , and diffolved by the ...
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... Elections ; that Money has been fent down from the Treafury to gain Returns from Boroughs in the Country ; by which the Elections have been rendred fo expensive to the Country Gentlemen that it is with great Difficulty . they can from ...
... Elections ; that Money has been fent down from the Treafury to gain Returns from Boroughs in the Country ; by which the Elections have been rendred fo expensive to the Country Gentlemen that it is with great Difficulty . they can from ...
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... Elections , and that Sums of Money have been fent into the Country for that Purpose ; but how this comes to be owing to Septennial Parliaments I cannot comprehend : Would it not be as much in the Power of the Court to intermeddle in the ...
... Elections , and that Sums of Money have been fent into the Country for that Purpose ; but how this comes to be owing to Septennial Parliaments I cannot comprehend : Would it not be as much in the Power of the Court to intermeddle in the ...
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Página 63 - ... coming on while the nation was in that ferment. Do not we know what a ferment was raised in the nation soon after his late majesty's accession? And if an election had then been allowed to come on while the nation was in that ferment, it might perhaps have had as fatal effects as the former ; but, thank God, this was wisely provided against by the very law which is now wanted to be repealed.
Página 59 - State must not be immediately divulged, their enemies (and enemies they will always have) would have a handle for exposing their measures, and rendering them disagreeable to the people, and thereby carrying perhaps a new election against them before they could have an opportunity of justifying their measures by divulging those facts and...
Página 61 - When no encroachments are made upon the. rights of the people, when the people do not think themselves in any danger, there may be many of the electors, who by a bribe of ten guineas might be induced to vote for one candidate rather than another; but if the court were making any encroachments upon the rights of the people, a proper spirit would, without doubt, arise in the nation ; and in such a case, I am persuaded, that none, or very few, even of such electors, could be induced to vote for a court...
Página 59 - Constitution, we are to guard against running too much into that form of government which is properly called democratical: this was, in my opinion, the effect of the triennial law, and will again be the effect, if ever it should be restored.
Página 46 - It is an old maxim that every man has his price, if you can but come up to it. This, I hope, does not hold true of every man, but I am afraid it too generally holds true...
Página 61 - ... the spirit he happens to be endowed with, adds a great deal to his virtue. When no encroachments are made upon the rights of the people, when the people do not think...
Página 62 - ... strangers to them, it is not from thence to be inferred, that the two strangers were chosen their representatives by the means of bribery and corruption. To insinuate...
Página 51 - Parliament ; suppose these lights refused, these reasonable requests rejected by a corrupt majority of his creatures, whom he retains in daily pay, or engages in his particular interest, by granting them those posts and places which ought never to be given to any but for the good of the public.
Página 60 - ... in the government ; for in all countries and in all governments, there always will be many factious and unquiet spirits, who can never be at rest either in power or out of power. When in power, they are never easy unless every man submits entirely to their...
Página 62 - And as to gentlemen in offices, if they have any advantage over country gentlemen, in having something else to depend on besides their own private fortunes, they have likewise many disadvantages : they are obliged to live here at London with their families, by which they are put to a much greater expense, than' gentlemen .of equal fortune who live in the country.