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" 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. "
The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when at the Bar ... - Page 402
by Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1813
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...government, were things not altogether incompatible. The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more...Influence. An influence, which operated without noise and without violence ; an influence, which converted the very antagonist into the instrument of power ;...
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An Historical Review of the State of Ireland from the Invasion of that ...

Francis Plowden - 1805 - 482 pages
...in a cannot be irrelevant to Ireland. " The power of the crown," says he, " almost dead and rotten, as prerogative, has grown up anew with much more strength,...and .far less odium, under the name of influence. At the Revolution the crown, deprived, for the ends of the revolution itself, of many prerogatives,...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 pages
...government, were things not altogether incompatible. The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more...Influence. An influence, which operated without noise and without violence ; an influence which converted the very antagonist, into the instrument, of power...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4

Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 484 pages
...prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more * Thought? on the Cause of the Present Discontents. strength and far less odium under the name of influence. An influence which operates without noise and violence ; which converts the very antagonist into the instrument of power...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4

Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 492 pages
...prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more * Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. strength and far less odium under the name of influence. An influence which operates without noise and violence ; which converts the very antagonist into the instrument of power;...
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The speeches of the hon. Thomas Erskine ... when at the Bar, on ..., Volume 3

Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 522 pages
...a free, and the ends of an arbi" trary government, were things not altogether iu" compatible. " The power of the Crown, almost dead and rot" ten as prerogative,...which contained in itself a perpetual principle of " growth and renovation; and which the distresses " and the prosperity of the country equally tended...
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The speeches of the hon. Thomas Erskine ... when at the Bar, on ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...GOVERNMENT, '* WERE THINGS NOT ALTOGETHER INCOMPATIBLE. " The power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten <( as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much " more...under the name " of influence. An influence, which operates with" out noise and violence, — which converts the very <e antagonist into the instrument...
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The Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine (now Lord Erskine): When at ..., Volume 3

James Ridgway - 1813 - 518 pages
...free, and the ends of an arbi-, ** trary government, were things not altogether in" compatible. " The power of the Crown, almost dead and rot" ten as prerogative,...more strength and far less odium, under the " name of influence.-r-An influence which operated " without noise and violence ; which converted the " very...
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The Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine (now Lord Erskine): When at ..., Volume 2

James Ridgway - 1813 - 470 pages
...GOVERNMENT, " WERE THINGS NOT ALTOGETHER INCOMPATIRLE. " The power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten " as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much " more...under the name " of influence. An influence, which operates with" out noise and violence,—which converts the very " antagonist into the instrument of...
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The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year ...

William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 pages
...last century ; in this, the distempers of parliament. The power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more...which contained in itself a perpetual principle of growth and renovation ; and which the distresses and the prosperity of the country equally tended to...
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