The Black Book: Or, Corruption Unmasked!, Zväzok 1J. Fairburn, 1820 |
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Strana 3
... increased from 20 to 30 per cent . within the last twenty years ; why not reduce them to their former amount ? The Board of Excise has offered to collect the customs at an expense of 5 instead of 13 per cent . which they now cost , and ...
... increased from 20 to 30 per cent . within the last twenty years ; why not reduce them to their former amount ? The Board of Excise has offered to collect the customs at an expense of 5 instead of 13 per cent . which they now cost , and ...
Strana 32
... increase his annuity £ 6000 per annum ; a provision , however , of £ 6000 a year was made for the duchess , on the decease of his royal high- ness . 1794 .. Harriet , Eliza Margaret , July 1 , ..... Albenia .. lady Albenia ..... 2000 00 ...
... increase his annuity £ 6000 per annum ; a provision , however , of £ 6000 a year was made for the duchess , on the decease of his royal high- ness . 1794 .. Harriet , Eliza Margaret , July 1 , ..... Albenia .. lady Albenia ..... 2000 00 ...
Strana 56
... increased £ 6000 ; and ministers would have augmented his income to £ 40,000 , but that was found rather too much even for the country gentle- men . The duke seems as little endowed with economy and prudence as his royal brothers ; for ...
... increased £ 6000 ; and ministers would have augmented his income to £ 40,000 , but that was found rather too much even for the country gentle- men . The duke seems as little endowed with economy and prudence as his royal brothers ; for ...
Strana 98
... increase , in a few years , in the annual expenditure , namely , from £ 18,000 to £ 24,000 per annum , being one- fourth of the total expense . The cost of each of the different establishments was , according to the return in 1814 ...
... increase , in a few years , in the annual expenditure , namely , from £ 18,000 to £ 24,000 per annum , being one- fourth of the total expense . The cost of each of the different establishments was , according to the return in 1814 ...
Strana 99
... increasing , while the abi- lity of the people to support it has been gradually decreasing . PATRONAGE . The act of 1792 made a very considerable addition to the patronage of the crown . The appointment to nearly all offices in the ...
... increasing , while the abi- lity of the people to support it has been gradually decreasing . PATRONAGE . The act of 1792 made a very considerable addition to the patronage of the crown . The appointment to nearly all offices in the ...
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Strana 446 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.
Strana 384 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Strana 276 - Because they .promise them both by their Sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform.
Strana 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Strana 279 - At the first establishment of parochial clergy the tithes of the parish were distributed in a fourfold division, — one for the use of the bishop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent.
Strana 330 - They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Strana 113 - But when the reason of old establishments is gone, it is absurd to preserve nothing but the burthen of them. This is superstitiously to embalm a carcass not worth an ounce of the gums that are used to preserve it.
Strana 394 - Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland, High Steward of Plymouth, Colonel of the 10th Regiment of Dragoons, and Capt.-General of the Hon.
Strana 114 - ... all courts, in all ages, JOBS, were still alive ; for whose sake alone it is that any trace of ancient grandeur is suffered to remain. These palaces are a true emblem of some governments ; the inhabitants are decayed, but the governors and magistrates still flourish. They put me in mind of Old...
Strana 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.