 I am convinced that very few trusts in the ordinary course of administration have admitted less abuse than this. Efficient ministers have been their own paymasters, it is true ; but their very partiality has operated as a kind of justice, and still it...  The Pamphleteer - Page 27edited by - 1817Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 106 pages
...exchequer lift, we find it filled with the defcendants of the Walpoles, of the Pelhams, of the Townfhends ; names to whom this country owes its liberties, and to whom his majefty owes his crown. It was in one of thefe lines, that the immenfe and envied employment he now... | |
 | 1780 - 498 pages
...lift, we find it filled with the defcendants of the W!alpoles, of the Pelhams, of the Townfhends ; names to .whom this country owes its liberties, and to whom his majefty owes his crown. It was in one of thefe lines that the immenfe and envied employment he now... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...it filled with .the defendants of the Walpoles, of the Pelhams, of the Townfhends ; . Townfhends ; names to whom this country owes its liberties; and to whom his majefty owes his crown. It was in one of thefe lines, that the immenfe and envied employment he now... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...exchequer lift, we find it filled with the defcendants of the Walpoles, of the Pelhams, of the Townfhends ; names to whom this country owes its liberties; and to whom his majefty owes-his crown. It was in one of thefe lines, that the immenle and envied employment he now... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...lift, we find it filled with the defcendants of the Walpples, ' of the Pelhams, of the Townfhends ; names to whom this country owes its liberties ; and to whom his majefty owes his crown. It was in one of thefe lines, that the immenfe and envied employment he now... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...true. But their very partiality has operated as a kind of justice ; and still it was service that was paid. When we look over this exchequer list, we find...owes its liberties ; and to whom his majesty owes his crows. It was in one of these lines, that the immense and envied employment he now holds, came to a... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 468 pages
...true. But their very partiality has operated as a kind of justice; and still it was service that was paid. When we look over this exchequer list, we find...whom his majesty owes his crown. It was in one of these lines, that the immense and envied employment he now holds, came to a certain duke,* who is now... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 466 pages
...true. But their very partiality has operated as a kind of justice ; and still it was service that was paid. When we look over this exchequer list, we find it filled with the de.. scendants of the Walpoles, of the Pelhams, of the Townshends ; names to whom this country owes... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...true. But their very partiality has operated as a kind of justice ; and still it was service that was paid. When we look over this exchequer list, we find...of the Townshends ; names to whom this country owes it liberties, and to whom his majesty owes his crown. It was in one of these lines, that the immense... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 730 pages
...true. But their very partiality has operated as a kind of justice ; and still it was service that was paid. When we look over this exchequer list, we find...it filled with the descendants of the Walpoles, of thePelhams, ofthe Townshends ; names to whom this country owes , its liberties ; and to whom his Majesty... | |
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