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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... command- ` ed . Since the first inftitu- tion of civil or political government upon earth , there never existed , in my opinion , an inftance inwhich the tranfcenden- cy of this fovereign right in the people was fo clear- ly ...
... command- ` ed . Since the first inftitu- tion of civil or political government upon earth , there never existed , in my opinion , an inftance inwhich the tranfcenden- cy of this fovereign right in the people was fo clear- ly ...
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... commands of fome other , and to be removable at pleasure . But the King of Great Britain obeys no other perfon ; all other perfons are individually , and collectively too under him , and owe to him a legal obedience . Reflections , 41 ...
... commands of fome other , and to be removable at pleasure . But the King of Great Britain obeys no other perfon ; all other perfons are individually , and collectively too under him , and owe to him a legal obedience . Reflections , 41 ...
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... command the love and attachment of thofe , who are bleft with it , and the respect and admiration of all who know it ; that no other alteration is even wifhed to be introduced into it , than a closer conformity in the practices of ...
... command the love and attachment of thofe , who are bleft with it , and the respect and admiration of all who know it ; that no other alteration is even wifhed to be introduced into it , than a closer conformity in the practices of ...
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... commands in England , over Scotland , and throughout India and all its con- cerns and dependencies . But as the political exigencies of the prefent fyftem of Administration feem to require very strong measures , it became 螺 8 - a ne- a ...
... commands in England , over Scotland , and throughout India and all its con- cerns and dependencies . But as the political exigencies of the prefent fyftem of Administration feem to require very strong measures , it became 螺 8 - a ne- a ...
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... command of the com- bined armies which were deftined for the great enterprise of invading France . But before he began his march from Coblentz , in order that the whole world might fully know the views and spirit of his glorious miffion ...
... command of the com- bined armies which were deftined for the great enterprise of invading France . But before he began his march from Coblentz , in order that the whole world might fully know the views and spirit of his glorious miffion ...
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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...
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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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