 | Samuel Romilly - Biography - 1842 - 496 pages
...of this constitution are lost ? Nay, it is past all doubt; our shame and our misfortunes cannot be dissembled. This House is not the representative of...representative of nominal boroughs, of ruined and extermyiated towns, of noble families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates ; and this is... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...proportionally diminished, and it was no Radical Reformer of our day, but Mr. Pitt, speaking in 1783, who said : "This House is not the representative of the people...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates." One of these foreign potentates, the Nabob of Arcot, had eight nominees ia the House. A well-known... | |
 | William Massey - Great Britain - 1855 - 604 pages
...from the corruption of the open constituencies. ' Thus,' said the son of Chatham a few years later, 'this House is not the representative of the people...families; of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates.' e Tarty policy. Each petty chief of party had his staff of spies, agents and go-betweens. The business... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...diminished, and it was no Eadical reformer of our day, but Mr. Pitt, speaking in 1783, who said : ' This House is not the representative of the people...ruined and exterminated towns, of noble families, of w ealthy individuals, of foreign potentates.' He stated that one of these foreign potentates, the Nabob... | |
 | William Massey - Great Britain - 1865 - 460 pages
...from the corruption of the open constituencies. ' Thus,' said the son of Chatham a few years later, ' this House is not the representative of the people...families; of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates.' f Each petty chief of party had his staff of spies, agents and go-betweens. The business arypo ty.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 456 pages
...diminished, and it was no Eadical reformer of our day, but Mr. Pitt, speaking in 1783, who said : ' This House is not the representative of the people...ruined and exterminated towns, of noble families, of w ealthy individuals, of foreign potentates.' He stated that one of these foreign potentates, the Nabob... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 484 pages
...diminished, and it was no Radical reformer of our day, but Mr. Pitt, speaking in 1783, who said : ' This House is not the representative of the people...ruined and exterminated towns, of noble families, of w ealthy individuals, of foreign potentates.' He stated that one of these foreign potentates, the Nabob... | |
 | Harvard University - 1874 - 668 pages
...with an asterisk may be substituted for the same number not •o marked. 1. Mr. Pitt said in 1783 : " This House is not the representative of the people of Great Britain. It ia the representative of nominal boroughs ; of ruined and exterminated towns; of noble families; of... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1874 - 1076 pages
...pounds, and we can hardly wood? that the younger Pitt cried indignantly at a later time, " This Hoc* is not the representative of the People of Great Britain. It is tk representative of nominal boroughs, of ruined and exterminate towns, of noble families, of wealthy... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1877 - 920 pages
...thousand pounds, and we can hardly wonder that the younger Pitt cried indignantly at a later time, " This House is not the representative of the People...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates." The meanest motives naturally told on a body returned by such constituencies, cut off from the influence... | |
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This House is not a representative of the people of Great Britain. It is the representative of nominal boroughs, of ruined and exterminated towns, of noble families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates. 
