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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
than 154.Ibid. Let a gentleman only come down to this House and say that a man has done so and so but cannot be hanged for it, the cry is, Oh, let us make a law, and hang him up immediately! Speech of Sir William Meredith, 27th Nov. 1770; in Cavendish, II. 89. so that the criminal code of England, formed under the influence of the rural gentry, seemed written in blood, and owed its mitigation only to executive clemency. But this cruelty, while it encouraged and hardened offenders, Charles Fox: in Cavendish, II. 12. did not revolt the instinct of submission in the rural population. The tenantry, for the most part without permanent leases, holding lands at a moderate rent, transmitting the occupation of them from father to son through many generations, With calm desires that asked but little room, clung to the lord of the manor as ivy to massive old walls. They loved to live in his light; to lean on his support, to gather round him with affectionate deference rather than b
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
thority of the king, yet, in the main, the new system was to be enforced by the transcendental power of the British parliament. On his advancement, Townshend became at once chap. V.} 1763. Feb. the most important man in the House of Commons; for Fox commanded no respect, and was preparing to retire to the House of Lords; and Grenville, offended at having been postponed, kept himself sullenly in reserve. Besides; America, which had been the occasion of the war, became the great subject of conf a successful opposition: Bute to one of his friends, in Adolphus i. 117. had he made way unreservedly for a sole minister in his stead, the aristocratic party might have recovered and long retained the entire control of the administration. Fox to the Duke of Cumber-land, in Albemarle's Memoirs of Rockingham, i. 131. By his instances to retire, made a half a year before, the king had been so troubled, that he frequently sat for hours together leaning his head upon his arm without speaki