 | 1780 - 740 ページ
...ftate, your petitioners obfcrve with grief, that, nntwithltanding the calamitous .and impovcrilhed condition of the nation, much public money has been...improvidently fquandered ; and that many individuals enjoy lim-cnrc places, efficient places with exorbitant emohiments, and penlions unmerited by public fervice,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1782 - 748 ページ
...iinprovidently fquandered, and that many individuals enjoyed Cnecure places, efficient places, -wilh exorbitant emoluments, and penfions unmerited by public fervice, to a large and ftill increafing amount, whence the Crown had acquired a great and nnconftitutional influence ; which, f... | |
 | 1788 - 734 ページ
...the ftate, your petitioners obferve with grief, that notwithstanding the calamitous and impoveriflied condition of the nation, much public money has been...exorbitant emoluments, and penfions Unmerited by public lervice, to a large and Mill increafing amount; whence the crown has acquired a great and unconftitutional... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1788 - 762 ページ
...calamities, and impoveriihed condition of the nation, much public money had been improvidently fquandered ; that many individuals enjoy finecure places, efficient places with exorbitant emoluments, and pennons, unmerited by public fervice, to a large and ftill increafing amount ; country, effeftual meafures... | |
 | Christopher Wyvill - 1794 - 586 ページ
...notwithftanding this calamitous and -impoverilhed ftate of the nation, much public money has been improvident! y fquandered, and that many individuals enjoy finecure...places, efficient places with exorbitant emoluments, and pennons unmerited by public fervice, to a large and ftill increafing amount; whence the Crown has acquired... | |
 | John Almon - 1797 - 430 ページ
...petitioners obferve with grief, that notwithftanding the calamities and impo6 verifhed •• verimed condition of the nation, much public money has been...penfions unmerited by public fervice, to a large and itill encreafing amount; whence the Crown has acquired a great unconftitutional influence, which, if... | |
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... encreafing amount; whence the crown has acquired a great and unconftitutional influence, which if not checked, may foon prove fatal to the liberties of this country. Your petitioners conceiving that the true end of every legitimate government is not... 