A Short History of the British Empire During the Last Twenty Months: Viz. from May 1792 to the Close of the Year 1793 |
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... England are too fenfible of the blef- fings of their Conftitution , madly to expose themselves to the unmeafurable evils of a pure democracy ; but they will also preserve themselves from fimple aristocracy , and from unbalanced monarchy ...
... England are too fenfible of the blef- fings of their Conftitution , madly to expose themselves to the unmeafurable evils of a pure democracy ; but they will also preserve themselves from fimple aristocracy , and from unbalanced monarchy ...
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... England , any obfervation upon , or even refer- ence to the actual administration of the Govern- ment might have feemed irrelevant to the fubject . But in the application of those principles to the fyftem of measures actually purfued ...
... England , any obfervation upon , or even refer- ence to the actual administration of the Govern- ment might have feemed irrelevant to the fubject . But in the application of those principles to the fyftem of measures actually purfued ...
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... England are an indulgent and a patient judge . Prodigal of their confidence , they are tardily roused at the abuse of it . In their generofity , they feldom give to the score of malice what the moft indulgent candour can refer to error ...
... England are an indulgent and a patient judge . Prodigal of their confidence , they are tardily roused at the abuse of it . In their generofity , they feldom give to the score of malice what the moft indulgent candour can refer to error ...
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... England , I must ever deny . That the fentiments and opinions , which he there displays , were afterwards adopted by the majority of the people of England , I reluctantly admit ; for , in admitting it , I behold the lamentable revival ...
... England , I must ever deny . That the fentiments and opinions , which he there displays , were afterwards adopted by the majority of the people of England , I reluctantly admit ; for , in admitting it , I behold the lamentable revival ...
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... England do now believe and maintain , that both his prefent Majefty and the late King William be- came entitled to the fo- vereignty of this Coun- try upon those principles , which from the days of King William have been called ...
... England do now believe and maintain , that both his prefent Majefty and the late King William be- came entitled to the fo- vereignty of this Coun- try upon those principles , which from the days of King William have been called ...
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Page 24 - Majesty's heirs and successors, each in his time and order, will come to the crown with the same contempt of their choice with which his Majesty has succeeded to that he wears.
Page 23 - He professedly wrote his discourses on government, as he himself expresses it, " to establish the throne of the great restorer king William; to make good his title in the consent of the people, which being the only one of all lawful governments, he...
Page 354 - True humility, the basis of the Christian system, is the low, but deep and firm, foundation of all real virtue. But this, as very painful in the practice, and little imposing in the appearance, they have totally discarded.
Page 22 - And the Acts lately made in England and Scotland mutually for the Union of the Two Kingdoms or that the Kings or Queens of this Realm with and by the Authority of Parliament are not able to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to limit and bind the Crown and the Descent Limitation Inheritance and Government thereof...
Page 23 - is almost the only lawful king in the world, because the only one who owes his crown to the choice of his people.
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