 | William Law Mathieson - History - 1910 - 336 pages
...of a jobber and borough-monger as Newcastle himself.2 "The power of the Crown," wrote Burke in 1770, "almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength and far less odium, under the name of Influence."3 The process which was in operation during these ten years demands... | |
 | Henry Barrett Learned - Biography & Autobiography - 1912 - 492 pages
...on the public business according to their opinions."" George III had endeavored to change all this. "The power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten as...grown up anew with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence."48 To this influence, especially as it had been asserted in the... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1912 - 344 pages
...patronage, and, (where need was,) by direct and downright bribery. " The power of the Crown," said Burke, " almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence." Everything, (so this famous patriot declared,) had been drawn... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - History - 1913 - 280 pages
...did not shrink from making use of his veto upon occasion. ' The power of the Crown ', said Burke, ' almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence.' The process originated long before the reign of George III. William... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - History - 1913 - 280 pages
...did not rtlirliik from making use of his veto upon occasion. 'The power of the Crown', said Burke, 'almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength, and fur ICSM odium, under the name of Influence.' The process Originated long before the reign of George... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1919 - 328 pages
...from the loss of national glory, might feel every blow of fortune as a crime in government. ******* The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as...grown up anew, with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence. An influence which operated without noise and without violence,... | |
 | Robert Roswell Palmer - History - 1959 - 552 pages
...Parliament itself, like the Stuarts in times gone by, but that he threatened parliamentary independence. "The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew under the name of Influence." It was a popular error, too, to favor structural changes in the Parliament.... | |
 | William Roger Louis - History - 1984 - 828 pages
...spirit of our age, were invoked against it. But latterly, as in the England of King George the Third, 'the power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew [because of the Regent], with far more strength and far less odium, under the name of influence.' Perowne... | |
 | James Conniff - Political Science - 1994 - 384 pages
...form of tyranny in his time was a new style of executive abuse under the guise of constitutionalism: "the power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew . . . under the name of influence." 42 Interestingly, Burke believed himself to be dealing with a system... | |
 | Lester D. Langley - History - 1996 - 396 pages
...expressed classic Whig thought when he wrote in Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent (1770), "The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew under the name of Influence."39 Burke was among those who took their complaints into a public forum... | |
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The power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence. 
