A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors: From the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 12Thomas Bayly Howell T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 - Trials |
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... reform in Parliament being now uni- versally talked of , it seems necessary for you to consider of the means by which that reform is to be accomplished , which means have not yet been seriously taken into consideration by any person ...
... reform in Parliament being now uni- versally talked of , it seems necessary for you to consider of the means by which that reform is to be accomplished , which means have not yet been seriously taken into consideration by any person ...
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... reform , and admitting the inferior class of landholders as electors , or capable of being elected , as I am told he has offered . Thus you would be overwhelmed with an inundation of tyrants , and in a worse situation than you are . Let ...
... reform , and admitting the inferior class of landholders as electors , or capable of being elected , as I am told he has offered . Thus you would be overwhelmed with an inundation of tyrants , and in a worse situation than you are . Let ...
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... reform in the bhs of Sd , and was rejected by them with the greatest supercility and contempt ? " From the free - will and accord of such men , the people of Britain have very little chance of getting their representation extended on a ...
... reform in the bhs of Sd , and was rejected by them with the greatest supercility and contempt ? " From the free - will and accord of such men , the people of Britain have very little chance of getting their representation extended on a ...
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... reform , but assigned a very satisfac- tory reason for not taking any hand at pre- sent in the business before them . " It ap- pears from the minutes , that the debate then proceeded but near the conclusion of it , captain Johnston ...
... reform , but assigned a very satisfac- tory reason for not taking any hand at pre- sent in the business before them . " It ap- pears from the minutes , that the debate then proceeded but near the conclusion of it , captain Johnston ...
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... reform . 3dly , To adopt a mode for holding a monthly correspondence in the business . 4thly , A determination to manifest to the whole country , an orderly but a firm conduct . 5thly , As a rule never to be departed from , to expunge ...
... reform . 3dly , To adopt a mode for holding a monthly correspondence in the business . 4thly , A determination to manifest to the whole country , an orderly but a firm conduct . 5thly , As a rule never to be departed from , to expunge ...
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Page 507 - I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Page 507 - Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies.
Page 27 - The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.
Page 507 - But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth : and the wolf catcheth them and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
Page 27 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights; and these limits are determinable only by law.
Page 507 - How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Thy silver is become dross; thy wine mixed with water; thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Page 507 - As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Page 37 - In England a King hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to empoverish the nation and set it together by the ears.
Page 507 - And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Page 507 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.