An Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution: From the Reign of Henry VII to the Present TimeLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 - 320 páginas |
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... peace and moderation , he caused many exceptions to be inserted in the acts for attainting the ad- herents of King Richard . A few A few years after- ward he procured a law to be passed , declaring that no one should be called in ...
... peace and moderation , he caused many exceptions to be inserted in the acts for attainting the ad- herents of King Richard . A few A few years after- ward he procured a law to be passed , declaring that no one should be called in ...
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... peace ; but that the true way is to stop the seeds of sedition and rebellion at the beginnings , and for that purpose to devise , confirm , and quicken good and wholesome laws against riots and unlawful assemblies of people , and all ...
... peace ; but that the true way is to stop the seeds of sedition and rebellion at the beginnings , and for that purpose to devise , confirm , and quicken good and wholesome laws against riots and unlawful assemblies of people , and all ...
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... peace , as long peace induces them to encounter even civil war for liberty . One of the next acts of the Parliament was the sanction of an arbitrary tax . This species of tax , known by the name of Benevolence , had been raised by ...
... peace , as long peace induces them to encounter even civil war for liberty . One of the next acts of the Parliament was the sanction of an arbitrary tax . This species of tax , known by the name of Benevolence , had been raised by ...
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... peace , by which he was to receive 745,000 ducats ( about 186,000l . sterling ) and a tribute of 25 crowns yearly . This reign was much disturbed by rebellion . Attachment to the house of York , and the bur- then of taxes seem to have ...
... peace , by which he was to receive 745,000 ducats ( about 186,000l . sterling ) and a tribute of 25 crowns yearly . This reign was much disturbed by rebellion . Attachment to the house of York , and the bur- then of taxes seem to have ...
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... peace . last , the Speaker , falling on his knees , with much reverence , excused the silence of the house , abashed , as he said , at the sight of so noble a personage , who was able to amaze the wisest and most learned men in the ...
... peace . last , the Speaker , falling on his knees , with much reverence , excused the silence of the house , abashed , as he said , at the sight of so noble a personage , who was able to amaze the wisest and most learned men in the ...
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Página 99 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 233 - All this is true if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.
Página 87 - And whereas the Laws of England are the birthright of the people thereof, and all the Kings and Queens, who shall ascend the Throne of this realm, ought to administer the Government of the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same...
Página 51 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Página 292 - Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Página 130 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 200 - As it is in the body, so it is in the mind ; practice makes it what it is : and most even of those excellences which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions.
Página 292 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government. It is the liberty, Lords and Commons, which your...
Página 305 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Página 110 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...