 | 1900 - 496 pągines
...Chester and Durham. I would have cited them to show that, even under former arbitrary reigns, Parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent, and allowed them representatives. Why did the gentleman confine himself to Chester and Durham ? He might have taken a higher example... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 714 pągines
...Durham. I would have cited them, to have shewn that, even under former arbitrary reigns, Parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent, and allowed them No. 142] Pitt's Protest 405 representatives. . . . The gentleman tells us of many who are taxed, and... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 450 pągines
...Chester and Durham. I would have cited them to show that even under former arbitrary reigns Parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent, and allowed them representatives. Why did the gentleman confine himself to Chester and Durham? He might have taken a higher example in... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 492 pągines
...Chester and Durham. I would have cited them to show that, even under arbitrary reigns, Parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent, and allowed them representatives." Then, repeating his former contemptuous expression, he proceeded : "The gentleman asks when were the... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1905 - 262 pągines
...Chester and Durham. I would have cited them to show that, even under arbitrary reigns, Parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent, and allowed them representatives. Why did the gentleman confine himself to Chester and Durham ? he might have taken a higher example... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 506 pągines
...Chester and Durham. I would have cited them to show that, even under former arbitrary reigns, Parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent, and allowed them representatives. Why did the gentleman confine himself to Chester and Durham ? He might have taken a higher example... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 pągines
...Durham. I would have cited them to have shown that, even under former arbitrary reigns, parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent, and allowed them representatives. . . . I am no courtier of America. I stand up for this kingdom. I maintain that the parliament has... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1914 - 476 pągines
...houses and people. have cited them to have shown that, even under any arbitrary reigns, Parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent, and allowed them representatives. Why did the gentleman ° confine himself to Chester and Durham ? He might have taken a higher example... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 560 pągines
...liberty; but for the defence of liberty upon a general constitutional principle, it is a ground on which I dare meet any man. I will not debate points of law;...consent, and allowed them representatives? A higher and ' See Green, William Pitt, p. 256. better example might have been taken from Wales; that principality... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 692 pągines
...Durham. I would have cited them, to have shewn that, even under former arbitrary reigns, Parliaments were ashamed of taxing a people without their consent, and allowed them representatives. . . . The gentleman tells us of many who are taxed, and are not represented. — The India Company,... | |
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Parliament, with the statute book doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of liberty. If I had, I myself would have cited the two cases of Chester and Durham. I would have cited them to show that, even under former arbitrary reigns, Parliaments... 
