The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 363
... civil list debts were to be paid off ; with perhaps a pretty augmentation of income . All this was to be done on the most public - spirited principles , and with a politeness and mutual interchange of good offices , that could not but ...
... civil list debts were to be paid off ; with perhaps a pretty augmentation of income . All this was to be done on the most public - spirited principles , and with a politeness and mutual interchange of good offices , that could not but ...
Page 366
... civil list debt . The Chancellor of the Exchequer was not in good humor enough , after his late defeat by his own troops , to co - operate in such a design ; so they made an act , to lock up the money in the exchequer until they should ...
... civil list debt . The Chancellor of the Exchequer was not in good humor enough , after his late defeat by his own troops , to co - operate in such a design ; so they made an act , to lock up the money in the exchequer until they should ...
Page 509
... civil list debt was to be raised chargeable on the civil list duties . In the reign of Queen Anne , the crown was found in debt . The lessening and grant- ing away some part of her revenue by Parliament was alleged as the cause of ...
... civil list debt was to be raised chargeable on the civil list duties . In the reign of Queen Anne , the crown was found in debt . The lessening and grant- ing away some part of her revenue by Parliament was alleged as the cause of ...
Page 510
... civil list debt . The extraordinary charges brought on by the rebellion , account fully for the necessities of the crown . However , the extraordinary charges of gov- ernment were not thought a ground fit to be relied on . A deficiency ...
... civil list debt . The extraordinary charges brought on by the rebellion , account fully for the necessities of the crown . However , the extraordinary charges of gov- ernment were not thought a ground fit to be relied on . A deficiency ...
Page 511
... civil list , and to have incurred a debt without special authority of Parliament , was prima facie , a criminal act : as such , ministers ought naturally rather to have with- drawn it from the inspection , than to have exposed it to ...
... civil list , and to have incurred a debt without special authority of Parliament , was prima facie , a criminal act : as such , ministers ought naturally rather to have with- drawn it from the inspection , than to have exposed it to ...
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