 | Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot - 1899 - 364 pages
...produce of labour and honesty. The riches of Asia have been poured in or upon us, and have brought with them not only Asiatic luxury, but, I fear, Asiatic...corruption as no private hereditary fortune could resist.' There can be no doubt that the evil repute in which men of this class were held had a prejudicial influence... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1899 - 500 pages
...the Company. The eountry WHS literally deluged with money. "Without eonneetions," said Lord Chatham, "without any natural interest in the soil, the importers of foreign gold have foreed their way into Parliament by sueh a torrent of eorruption as no private hereditary fortune eould... | |
 | Paul Samuel Reinsch - 1900 - 434 pages
...produce of labor and industry. The riches of Asia have been poured in upon us, and have brought with them not only Asiatic luxury, but, I fear, Asiatic...forced their way into Parliament by such a torrent of corruption as no private hereditary fortune could resist." l And Burke, in his speech of December I,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 pages
...overflowing his country, and declared " the riches of Asia have been poured in upon us and have brought with them not only Asiatic luxury, but I fear Asiatic principles of government." The first two facts of general interest we notice, therefore, were the immense difficulty of England's... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1905 - 262 pages
...riches of Asia have been poured in upon us, and have brought with them not only Asiatic luxury, but Asiatic principles of government. Without connections,...private corruption, as no private hereditary fortune can resist." He persisted in affirming the secret influence of Lord Bute, though the quondam Favourite... | |
 | 1907 - 794 pages
...to buy seats that of right belonged to the landed aristocracy. Speaking of them Lord Chatham said: J corruption as no private hereditary fortune could resist." (May, Vol. I., p. 269.) In 1762 pecuniary... | |
 | Arthur Hassall - 1907 - 310 pages
...England of wealthy Indian nabobs. ' Without connections,' he declared in a speech in the House of Lords, 'without any natural interest in the soil, the importers of foreign gold (the nabobs) have forced their way into Parliament by such a torrent of private corruption as no private... | |
 | Edward Porritt - 1909 - 656 pages
...connections," said Lord Chatham, in speaking of them and their inroads into the borough constituencies, " without any natural interest in the soil, the importers...forced their way into Parliament by such a torrent of corruption as no private hereditary fortune could resist'." Most of these possessors of ducal incomes... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1912 - 496 pages
...; and they bought it, without hesitation or misgiving. Speaking of this class Lord Chatham said : " Without connections, without any natural interest...importers of foreign gold have forced their way into 1 Essay on the Balance of Power ; Davenant's Works, iii. 326, 328. See also Pamphlets, " Freeholder's... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1915 - 776 pages
...produce of labour and industry. The riches of Asia have been poured in upon us, and have brought with them not only Asiatic luxury, but, I fear, Asiatic...corruption as no private hereditary fortune could resist." (Chatham Correspondence, III. -t05). Voltaire in a letter to Chesterfield written about 1772, expressed... | |
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For some years past, there has been an influx of wealth into this country, which has been attended with many fatal consequences, because it has not been the regular, natural produce of labour and industry. The riches of Asia have been poured in upon us,... 
