 | World history - 1783 - 458 pages
...faicl to have rather been unhappy than worthy of cenfure. 'It was his misfortune to live in a time, when the precedents of many former reigns favoured...of the people ran violently towards liberty ; and even now, it is difficult to determine what conduct, in his circumftances, could have maintained the... | |
 | Andrew Brown (of Glasgow.) - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1795 - 242 pages
...than by quoting the words of the elegant hiftorian, Hume, in drawing the character of this monarch. " Unhappily, his fate threw him into a period, when...power, and the genius of the people ran violently toward liberty. And, if his political prudence was not fufficient to extricate him fromlb perilous... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...happy, and his memory precious. Had the limitations on the prerogative been in his time quite iixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard as...when the precedents of many former reigns favoured ft; ongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people ran violently towards liberty. And if his... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...quite fixed and certain, his hiteprity had made him regard as facred th* boundaries of the conllhution. Unhappily his fate threw him into a period, when the precedents of many former reigns favoured fhongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people ran violently towards liberty. And if his... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 544 pages
...fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard, as sacred, the boundaries of the constitution. Unhappily, his fate threw him into a period when the precedents of many former reigns savoured strongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people ran violently towards liberty. And... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard as sacred the boundaries of the constitution. Unhappily his fate threw him into a period when the precedents of many former reigns savoured strongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people ran violently towards liberty. And... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 444 pages
...fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard, as sacred, the boundaries of the constitution. Unhappily, his fate threw him into a period when the precedents of many former reigns savoured strongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people ran violently towards liberty. And... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - Great Britain - 1841 - 524 pages
...fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard, as sacred, the boundaries of the constitution. Unhappily, his fate threw him into a period when the precedents of many former reigns savoured strongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people ran violently towards liberty. And... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - Great Britain - 1841 - 526 pages
...fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard, as sacred, the boundaries of the constitution. Unhappily, his fate threw him into a period when the precedents of many former reigns savoured strongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people ran violently towards liberty. And... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1844 - 724 pages
...into a period when the precedent of former reigns savoured strongly of arbitrary power, and the genins of the people ran violently towards liberty. And if his political prudence was not sufficient to extricate him from so perilous a situation, he may be excused; since even after the event,... | |
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Had the limitations on prerogative been in his time quite fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard, as sacred, the boundaries of the constitution. Unhappily, his fate threw him into a period when the precedents of many former reigns savoured... 
