The Governance of England, Otherwise Called, The Difference Between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy |
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Page 269 - But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Page 281 - ... more than sufficient for this. I do not look on the direct and immediate power of the Colonies to resist our violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have Colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable in order to keep them obedient.
Page 102 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page iv - I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed...
Page 281 - I thought, exploded problem of tyranny, which proposes to beggar its subjects into submission. But, remember, when you have completed your system of impoverishment, that Nature still proceeds in her ordinary course; that discontent will increase with misery ; and that there are critical moments in the fortunes of all states, when they who are too weak to contribute to your prosperity may be strong enough to complete your ruin.
Page 252 - Item, quod regnum non est propter regem, sed rex propter regnum, quia ad hoc Deus providit de eis, ut regnum regant et gubernent, et unum~ quemque in suo jure conservent : et hie est finis regiminis, quod si ad aliud faciunt in seipsoa commodum retorquendo, non sunt reges sed tyranni.
Page 344 - ... of his fals lordes, and nevere of hym ; and the comon peple seyde, yf thei myghte have another Kynge, he schulde gett alle ageyne and amende alle manere of thynges that was amysse, and brynge the reame of Englond in grete prosperite and reste. Nevere the lattere, whenne Kynge Edwarde 1111th regnede, the peple looked after alle the forseide prosperytes and peece, but it came not...
Page 196 - Le roy Charles septiesme, dit Comines, fust le premier... qui gaigna ce point d'imposer tailles à son plaisir, sans le consentement des estats de son royaulme... et à cecy consentirent les seigneurs de France pour certaines pensions qui leur furent promises pour les deniers qu'on levoit en leurs terres. » On ne demanda point au tiers-état son avis, et pour un temps l'usage concentra dans les mains du prince une puissance toujours...
Page 298 - ... all matters and things relating to the well governing of this kingdom, which are properly cognizable in the privy council by the laws and customs of this realm, shall be transacted there, and all resolutions taken thereupon shall be signed by such of the privy council as shall advise and consent to the same.