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In Commons thus chosen , there can never be a Majority against the popular
Interest . And fuch must ever prove an happy Balance in the Scales of
Government , against either , or both the other Efates , should it be poffible they
should set up ...
In Commons thus chosen , there can never be a Majority against the popular
Interest . And fuch must ever prove an happy Balance in the Scales of
Government , against either , or both the other Efates , should it be poffible they
should set up ...
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... the expence is £ .120,000 Amount of expence , 138,180 It is proposed , that
debentures should be issued , bearing an interest of 6 per cent . for the sum of
138,1801 . interest is Suppose the expence of engineers , directors of water ,
clerks ...
... the expence is £ .120,000 Amount of expence , 138,180 It is proposed , that
debentures should be issued , bearing an interest of 6 per cent . for the sum of
138,1801 . interest is Suppose the expence of engineers , directors of water ,
clerks ...
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... greater property protected , although not so completely . If such clauses were
univerfal , it would be the interest of every tenant to make many improvements ,
which at present it is not his interest to make , for instance it would be the interest
of ...
... greater property protected , although not so completely . If such clauses were
univerfal , it would be the interest of every tenant to make many improvements ,
which at present it is not his interest to make , for instance it would be the interest
of ...
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It is the interest of the former that there Tould be a very high duty on imported iron
, that it may not be able to contend with their iron in the Irish market ; on the
contrary , it is the interest of the latter , that the duty on imported iron should be as
low ...
It is the interest of the former that there Tould be a very high duty on imported iron
, that it may not be able to contend with their iron in the Irish market ; on the
contrary , it is the interest of the latter , that the duty on imported iron should be as
low ...
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For can it feasonably be fupposed that one nation will uphold another , by
fostering its trade at an immense expense to herself and her subjects , and at a
loss to her revenues and manufactures , her navigation , and commercial
interests !
For can it feasonably be fupposed that one nation will uphold another , by
fostering its trade at an immense expense to herself and her subjects , and at a
loss to her revenues and manufactures , her navigation , and commercial
interests !
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Page 31 - XIX. 42.) at leaft in this our day, the things which belong unto our peace, before they are hid from our eyes. Never may fuch blindnefs happen to us, as befel the Jews; but may we (If. LV. 6, 7-) feek the Lord while he may be found, and call upon him -while he' is near ; and return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon us, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Page 59 - ... out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth on their hands and knees, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead...
Page 36 - They therefore found this expedient, which they called an act of grace. There was a large tract of land, even to the half of the province of Connaught, that was separated from the rest by a long and a large river, and which by the plague and many massacres remained almost desolate.
Page 60 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 19 - We are indeed to do to others as we would have them do to us...
Page 70 - What is it to you, whether I make many or few boroughs ; my council may consider the fitness, if I require it ; but what if I had made forty noblemen, and four hundred boroughs, the more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer.
Page 15 - ... be the perfect freedom, in the fairest and fullest sense, of all descriptions of men, without distinction of religion. ' To this purpose we spoke; and speaking this to no purpose, withdrew. It now remains to add this supplication, However it may please the Almighty to dispose of princes or of parliaments, may the liberties of the people be immortal.
Page 29 - ... ftranger that is within thy gates : For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and refted the feventh day: wherefore the Lord blefled the fabbath day, and hallowed it.
Page 47 - That the undersigned state prisoners, in the three prisons of Newgate, Kilmainham, and Bridewell, engage to give every information in their power of the whole of the internal transactions of the United Irishmen; and that each of the prisoners shall give detailed information of every transaction that has passed between the United Irishmen...
Page 62 - Our pope, which art in Rome, cursed be thy name, perish may thy kingdom, hindered may thy will be, as it is in heaven, so in earth.
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| Title | An appeal to the commons and citizens of London. [Followed by] the preface to the Political constitutions, &c An appeal to the commons and citizens of London. [Followed by] the preface to the Political constitutions, &c, Charles Lucas |
| Author | Charles Lucas |
| Published | 1756 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 75 pages |
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