The History of the Reign of George III.: To the Termination of the Late War, Volume 4T.N.Longman and O. Rees, 1803 |
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Page 313 - ... disconnecting the authority to command service, from the power of animating it by reward ; and for allotting to the prince all the invidious duties of government, without the means of softening them to the public, by any one act of grace, favour, or benignity.
Page 96 - It was fortunate, however, to observe, that notwithstanding all the skill employed by the noble and literary engineer, his mode of defence on paper was open to the same...
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Page 306 - Britain, should determine on the means whereby the royal assent may be given in parliament to such bill as may be passed by the two Houses of parliament, respecting the exercise of the powers and authorities of the crown, in the name and on the behalf of the king, during the continuance of his majesty's present indisposition.
Page 306 - That it is the opinion of this committee, That it is the right and duty of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons of Great Britain now assembled, and lawfully, fully, and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm, to provide the means of supplying the defect of the personal exercise of the royal authority, arising from...
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Page 314 - ... the prince expresses his firm conviction, that no event would be more repugnant to the feelings of his royal father, than the knowledge that the government of his son and representative had exhibited the sovereign power of the realm in a state of degradation...
Page 319 - ... to the arguments of Dundas and of Pulteney. Conscious that the present occasion would be the last in which he should personally take any part before the decision of the regency question, he seemed to put out all his intellectual strength. Scott having laid down as an incontrovertible proposition, that "the king's political character was in the eye of the law inseparable from his personal, and so would continue until his demise," Fox turned against this doctrine all the artillery of reason and...
Page 324 - ... trust intended to be reposed in me by parliament. It will be a great consolation to me to receive the aid of a council, of which I shall stand...
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| Title | The History of the Reign of George III.: To the Termination of the Late War, Volume 4 The History of the Reign of George III. to the Termination of the Late War: To which is Prefixed, A View of the Progressive Improvement of England, in Prosperity and Strength, to the Accession of His Majesty, Robert Bisset The History of the Reign of George III.: To the Termination of the Late War, Robert Bisset |
| Author | Robert Bisset |
| Publisher | T.N.Longman and O. Rees, 1803 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Apr 2007 |
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