The Whisperer: Containing Several Spirited Essays on Civil Liberty, Volume 1the Author, 1770 |
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... Ministers to pass unnoticed , and the na- tion to be enflaved , at this day . Forbid it Heaven ? The complaints of the people must be heard , their grievances must be redreffed ; if not , the C - n of England must expire under the mife ...
... Ministers to pass unnoticed , and the na- tion to be enflaved , at this day . Forbid it Heaven ? The complaints of the people must be heard , their grievances must be redreffed ; if not , the C - n of England must expire under the mife ...
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... - -Elective . Weak and diftra & ted councils , Profligate abandon'd ministers , Curt minions of favouritism . Taxes and excife infupportable , Placemen and penfioners innumerable , Taxes 56 No. V. THE WHISPERER . NUMBER V. ...
... - -Elective . Weak and diftra & ted councils , Profligate abandon'd ministers , Curt minions of favouritism . Taxes and excife infupportable , Placemen and penfioners innumerable , Taxes 56 No. V. THE WHISPERER . NUMBER V. ...
Page 59
... ministers is , that ob- jects plain and fimple are not fit for princes to be- hold : they will not fuffer them to fee things as they really are , but to view them through a mini- fterial medium , nicely adapted to the fine fpun schemes ...
... ministers is , that ob- jects plain and fimple are not fit for princes to be- hold : they will not fuffer them to fee things as they really are , but to view them through a mini- fterial medium , nicely adapted to the fine fpun schemes ...
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... ministers , the infamy of reprefentatives , nor the obftinacy of the K have been able to leffen him in the efteem of the public ; he rifes fuperior to every oppreffion , he has nobly and boldly pursued the tools of her power , from the ...
... ministers , the infamy of reprefentatives , nor the obftinacy of the K have been able to leffen him in the efteem of the public ; he rifes fuperior to every oppreffion , he has nobly and boldly pursued the tools of her power , from the ...
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... ministers , and we should then be free . - It may here indeed be faid ; was this determination to become gene- ral , we fhould not find a fufficient number of men of of property to fend to parliament , for ' tis 872 THE WHISPERER . No ...
... ministers , and we should then be free . - It may here indeed be faid ; was this determination to become gene- ral , we fhould not find a fufficient number of men of of property to fend to parliament , for ' tis 872 THE WHISPERER . No ...
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Page 305 - Majesty would be also graciously pleased, for the further comfort and safety of your people, to declare your royal will and pleasure, that in the things aforesaid all your officers and ministers shall serve you according...
Page 305 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Page 295 - If the meaning of these words, finding against the direction of the court in matter of law, be, that if the judge, having heard the' evidence given in court, (for he knows no other) shall tell the jury upon this evidence.
Page 199 - ... whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.
Page 302 - And whereas of late great companies of soldiers and mariners have been dispersed into divers counties of the realm, and the inhabitants against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their houses, and there to suffer them to sojourn, against the laws and customs of this realm, and to the great grievance and vexation of the people.
Page 300 - Council, and in other places, and others of them have been therefore imprisoned, confined and sundry other ways molested and disquieted : and divers other charges have been laid and levied upon your people in several...
Page 197 - Majesty's person and family, or more ready to sacrifice their lives and fortunes in the maintenance of the true honour and dignity of your crown. " We do, therefore, with the greatest humility and submission...
Page 197 - Permit me, sire, further to observe, that whoever has already dared, or shall hereafter endeavour, by false insinuations and suggestions, to alienate your Majesty's affections from your loyal subjects in general, and from the City of London in particular, and to withdraw your confidence in and regard for your people, is an enemy to your Majesty's person and family, a violator of the public peace, and a betrayer of our happy constitution, as it was established at the glorious Revolution.
Page 199 - Thus to regulate candidates and electors and new model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots and poison the very fountain of public security?
Page 304 - ... commissions, for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.