Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq: To the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the Affairs of America. By the Earl of Abingdon

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Página xxvii - for triennial and feptennial Elections. It " can, in ihort, do every Thing that is not " naturally impoffible •> and therefore fome " have not fcrupled to call its Power, by a " Figure rather too bold, the Omnipotence ofPar
Página xvi - the King is not only incapable of doing " wrong, but even of thinking wrong: He can " never mean to do an improper Thing : In " him is no Folly or Weaknefs."* But let us fee how this
Página xxxviii - cannot be a Doftrine more fatal to the *"' Liberty and Property we are contending for " than that, which confounds the Idea of a forts in the public Service, by the Exercife of his fuperior Talents,
Página xxxix - fupreme and an arbitrary Legiflature. I need " not point out to you, the fatal Purpofes to' " which it has been, and may be applied. If " we are fincere in the Political Creed we
Página 37 - Legiflators ought to do what Lawyers " cannot; for they have no other rules to bind " them but the great principles of reafon and " equity, and the general fenfe of mankind
Página xxxviii - abfolute. The Power of the Legiflature " is limited, not only by the general Rules " of natural Juftice, and the Welfare of the ** Community, but by the Forms and Principles
Página lxv - Son! thou in whom my Glory I behold " In full Refplendence, Heir of all my Might, " Nearly it now concerns us to be fure
Página lxi - State of Omnipotency, Judge Hales fays ; " It is the Law and Cuftom of Parliament, that where any new Device is moved on the King's Behalf in Parliament for his Aid, or the like, the Commons may anfwer, that this is a
Página xxvii - Crown, as was done in the Reign of Henry " VIII. and William III. It can alter the
Página xiii - is fo far from having any Right to our Allegiance by " Virtue of any other Title which he may fet up againft the King " in Being, that we are bound by the Duty of our Allegiance to " refift him.

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