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Page 87
... refuses reform and retrenchment -- ever to vote away the properties and
liberties of the people . West , Benjamin , esq . surveyor of pictures .......... 200 0.0
Places , Pensions , Grants , Sinecures , and Emoluments CORRUPTION
UNMASKED ...
... refuses reform and retrenchment -- ever to vote away the properties and
liberties of the people . West , Benjamin , esq . surveyor of pictures .......... 200 0.0
Places , Pensions , Grants , Sinecures , and Emoluments CORRUPTION
UNMASKED ...
Page 233
Is it surprising , then , that judges , counsel , attorneys , and the whole fraternity ,
are opposed to Reform ? Reform indeed would be ruin for them ! They know that
well . They'll stick to the “ venerable pile ” as to a freehold estate . Truly reform ...
Is it surprising , then , that judges , counsel , attorneys , and the whole fraternity ,
are opposed to Reform ? Reform indeed would be ruin for them ! They know that
well . They'll stick to the “ venerable pile ” as to a freehold estate . Truly reform ...
Page 237
Expense of the Administration of Justice . eventually might lead to a reform of
Scotch law and the Court of Session . This , no doubt , though possibly he may be
insensible of it himself , is the source of all his apprehensions on the subject of ...
Expense of the Administration of Justice . eventually might lead to a reform of
Scotch law and the Court of Session . This , no doubt , though possibly he may be
insensible of it himself , is the source of all his apprehensions on the subject of ...
Page 273
Under the specious name of Reform , it is said we design revolution ; and under
pretence of alleviating the pressure of intolerable burthens , we look to the
dissolution of society and the plunder of the rich . What can the Reformers reply
to such ...
Under the specious name of Reform , it is said we design revolution ; and under
pretence of alleviating the pressure of intolerable burthens , we look to the
dissolution of society and the plunder of the rich . What can the Reformers reply
to such ...
Page 340
Timely reform , no doubt , would have laverted that catastrophe ; but the clergy
were loth to relinquish their tithes and the aristocracy their odious privileges .
They would make no concession to the wants and intelligence of the people ;
they ...
Timely reform , no doubt , would have laverted that catastrophe ; but the clergy
were loth to relinquish their tithes and the aristocracy their odious privileges .
They would make no concession to the wants and intelligence of the people ;
they ...
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Page 446 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 384 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 276 - Because they .promise them both by their Sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform.
Page 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 279 - At the first establishment of parochial clergy the tithes of the parish were distributed in a fourfold division, — one for the use of the bishop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent.
Page 330 - They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Page 113 - But when the reason of old establishments is gone, it is absurd to preserve nothing but the burthen of them. This is superstitiously to embalm a carcass not worth an ounce of the gums that are used to preserve it.
Page 394 - Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland, High Steward of Plymouth, Colonel of the 10th Regiment of Dragoons, and Capt.-General of the Hon.
Page 114 - ... all courts, in all ages, JOBS, were still alive ; for whose sake alone it is that any trace of ancient grandeur is suffered to remain. These palaces are a true emblem of some governments ; the inhabitants are decayed, but the governors and magistrates still flourish. They put me in mind of Old...
Page 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.