 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 584 strani
...talked much at the council of being responsible to the people. Carteret said, ' when the gentleman talks of being responsible to the people, he talks...House of Commons, and forgets that at this Board he is responsible only to the King.' This report, as Lord Stanhope points out (iv. 241), rests on the authority... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 332 strani
...438. Oct. 176l-July 1762. " Majesty and directing the operations of the War, to what " purpose are ive called to this Council ? When he talks of " being...People, he talks the language of " the House of Commons; forgets that, at this Board, he is " only responsible to the King. However, though he may " possibly... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1901 - 257 strani
...talks of being responsible to the people," retorted Lord Granville, the Lord Carteret of earlier days, "he talks the language of the house of commons, and...at this board he is only responsible to the king." But his appeal was heard by the people at la«ge. When the dismissed statesman went to Guildhall the... | |
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I am sorry for it, since otherwise he would have certainly compelled us to leave him [Has ruled us, may not I say, with a rod of iron !] But if he be resolved to assume the office of exclusively advising his Majesty and directing the operations of the... 
