 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.  The Industrial Revolution - Page 75by Charles Austin Beard - 1919 - 105 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir Samuel Romilly - 1840 - 498 pages
...constitution are lost? Nay, it is past all doubt ; our shame and our misfortunes cannot be dissembled. This House is not the representative of the people...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates : and this is surely the most to be dreaded of all the misfortunes that can befall a nation, for there... | |
 | Samuel Romilly - Great Britain - 1840 - 500 pages
...constitution are lost ? Nay, it is past all doubt ; our shame and our misfortunes cannot.be dissembled. This House is not the representative of the people...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates ; and this is surely the most to be dreaded of all the misfortunes that can befall a nation, for there... | |
 | Sir Samuel Romilly - Lawyers - 1840 - 492 pages
...constitution are lost ? Nay, it is past all doubt; our shame and our misfortunes cannot be dissembled. This House is not the representative of the people...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates ; and this is surely the most to be dreaded of all the misfortunes that can befall a nation, for there... | |
 | Samuel Romilly - Lawyers - 1840 - 500 pages
...constitution are lost? Nay, it is past all doubt ; our shame and our misfortunes cannot be dissembled. This House is not the representative of the people...families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates : and this is surely the most to be dreaded of all the misfortunes that can befall a nation, for there... | |
 | Samuel Romilly - Biography - 1842 - 496 pages
...constitution are lost ? Nay, it is past all doubt; our shame and our misfortunes cannot be dissembled. This House is not the representative of the people...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 - 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... | |
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