 | Samuel Romilly - Biography - 1842 - 496 pages
...their country, but venal electors, who carry their votes—the noblest privilege of Englishmen—to market, like some vile and contemptible commodity;...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. 
