...recently been compelled to withdraw his Excise Bill, declined to entertain the project, stating, ' I have old England set against me, and do you think I will have new England likewise ? ' The scheme introduced by Grenville appears to have been planned for Bute, when in office, by Jeukinson,...

...Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, that Lord Chesterfield, having asked Walpole what he thought of it, Walpole replied, " I have old England set against me, and do you think I will have new England likewise ?" Yet, it is probable that, had the plan then been carried into execution, with as popular an official...

...Chancellor Hardwicke, that Lord Chesterfield, having asked "Walpole what he thought of it, "Walpole replied, "I have old England set against me, and do you think I will have new England likewise ?" Yet, it is probable that, had the plan then been carried into execution, with as popular an official...

...Governor of Pennsylvania, who was submitting a plan for raising revenue from the colonies, "what ! I have Old England set against me, and do you think I will have New England likewise ! " Walpole but echoed the fixed maxim of Whitehall, " Let colonial politics alone ! " and no truer...

...deputy-governor of Virginia came over to Walpole with a plan for an American tax. "No," said the minister, "I have old England set against me, and do you think I will have the new England likewise?" A few years later (1739) the temptation was renewed. Walpole again repelled...

...Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, that Lord Chesterfield, having asked Walpole what he thought of it, Walpole replied, ' I have old England set against me, and do you think I will have new England likewise?' Yet.it is probable that, had the plan then been carried into execution, with as popular an official...

...the failure of the excise scheme in England, and on Sir William Keith's proposing to tax America, ' I have Old England set against me, and do you think I will have New England likewise ? ' And so, for lack of Sir Robert's good, rough-hewn common sense, Mr. Grenville lost America, for...

...William Keith, governor of Pennsylvania, proposed such a scheme to Sir Robert Walpole. The prime minister replied: — "I have Old England set against me, and do you think I will have New England likewise ? " In 1754, Lord Halifax, the secretary of state for the colonies, proposed that a general system...

...Walpole that he should raise revenue from the colonies. " What !" exclaimed that shrewd master of men. " I have Old England set against me, and do you think I will have New England likewise?" But men had come into authority in England now who lacked this stout sagacity, and every element of...

...quarters. In 1739, when sounded by Lord Chesterfield as to a project for the taxation of America, he replied, ' I have old England set against me, and do you think I will have new England likewise ? ' But he vindicated his refusal also on the higher ground that the true policy was one of the development,...