Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly miscellany) [afterw.] The Political review and monthly mirror of the times, Volume 9Benjamin Flower 1811 |
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... England , is nearly exhausted . We still indeed hear reports of exertions ; but the exertions are no where to be found . During this mighty struggle , scarcely one Spaniard of sufficient weight has appeared to embody the powers inherent ...
... England , is nearly exhausted . We still indeed hear reports of exertions ; but the exertions are no where to be found . During this mighty struggle , scarcely one Spaniard of sufficient weight has appeared to embody the powers inherent ...
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... England , whose love of their just and natural rights , with their resolution to preserve them , saved the nation when it was on the very brink of slavery and ruin . If these papers have that evidence , I flat- ter myself is to be found ...
... England , whose love of their just and natural rights , with their resolution to preserve them , saved the nation when it was on the very brink of slavery and ruin . If these papers have that evidence , I flat- ter myself is to be found ...
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... England ( being but a de- claration of the ancient common laws of the land , and little differing from the articles of Renymeed , to- gether with the charter of the forest ) framed and consented to in full par- liament , and are the ...
... England ( being but a de- claration of the ancient common laws of the land , and little differing from the articles of Renymeed , to- gether with the charter of the forest ) framed and consented to in full par- liament , and are the ...
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... England where any grand juries of the county charged them- selves and their countrymen with any tax to raise a war against the public interest of the people , as they did here when , at the summer assi- zes in the year 1642 , they ...
... England where any grand juries of the county charged them- selves and their countrymen with any tax to raise a war against the public interest of the people , as they did here when , at the summer assi- zes in the year 1642 , they ...
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... England ; so I do naturally desire the security of government , and I do willingly submit to the justice of known laws : But I have ever ab- horred all arbitrary powers , or to be subject to the wills or passions of men ; and therefore ...
... England ; so I do naturally desire the security of government , and I do willingly submit to the justice of known laws : But I have ever ab- horred all arbitrary powers , or to be subject to the wills or passions of men ; and therefore ...
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Page 16 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them.
Page 212 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 212 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in His Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does He then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen...
Page 145 - To understand political power right and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 16 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 212 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it...
Page 218 - ... up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed, should be disputing, reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity...
Page 212 - Commons ; and from thence derives itself to a gallant bravery and wellgrounded contempt of their enemies, as if there were no small number of as great spirits among us as his was, who when Rome was nigh besieged by Hannibal, being in the city, bought that piece of ground at no cheap rate, whereon Hannibal himself encamped his own regiment.
Page 212 - We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Page 218 - Reformation itself: what does He then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen? I say, as His manner is, first to us, though we mark not the method of His counsels, and are unworthy.