A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Nide 3

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1878
 

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Sivu 1 - The Theory of Strains in Girders and similar Structures, with Observations on the application of Theory to Practice, and Tables of the : Strength and other Properties of Materials.
Sivu 3 - LIBRARY EDITION, with all the Original Illustrations, Maps, Landscapes on Steel, Woodcuts, &c. 2 vols. 4to. 48s. INTERMEDIATE EDITION, with a Selection of Maps, Plates, and Woodcuts. 2 vols. square crown 8vo. 31s. Gd. PEOPLE'S EDITION, revised and condensed, with 46 Illustrations and Maps.
Sivu 331 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Sivu 203 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Sivu 5 - The Alpine Club Map of Switzerland, with parts of the Neighbouring Countries, on the scale of Four Miles to an Inch. Edited by RC NICHOLS, FRGS In Four Sheets in Portfolio, price 42^. coloured, or 34^.
Sivu 545 - INSECTS AT HOME : A Popular Account of British Insects, their Structure, Habits and Transformations.
Sivu 383 - Be content to bind America by laws of trade ; you have always done it. Let this be your reason for binding their trade. Do not burthen them by taxes; you were not used to do so from the beginning. Let this be your reason for not taxing. These are the arguments of states and kingdoms. Leave the rest to the schools ; for there only they may be discussed with safety.
Sivu 544 - STRANGE DWELLINGS: a Description of the Habitations of Animals, abridged from ' Homes without Hands '. With 60 Illustrations.
Sivu 537 - History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe. By WEH LECKY, MA 2 vols.
Sivu 4 - Readings for Every Day in Lent, compiled from the Writings of Bishop JEREMY TAYLOR. By the same Author. Fcp. 5s. Preparation for the Holy Communion; the Devotions chiefly from the works of JEREMY TAYLOR. By the same.

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