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Página 36
... inconvenience to which “ the infolence of office ” had exposed him , and being
now an independent Englishman , he hopes to preserve that character , and his
zeal for the true interest of his country inviolate , to the last hour of his existence .
... inconvenience to which “ the infolence of office ” had exposed him , and being
now an independent Englishman , he hopes to preserve that character , and his
zeal for the true interest of his country inviolate , to the last hour of his existence .
Página 45
... but the proper appellation is indeed , Special Perjury , because they do not ,
according to their oaths , well and truly try , and true Deliverance make : For when
a jury are not convinced in their consciences , that both the matter laid against the
...
... but the proper appellation is indeed , Special Perjury , because they do not ,
according to their oaths , well and truly try , and true Deliverance make : For when
a jury are not convinced in their consciences , that both the matter laid against the
...
Página 46
it rather more a libel , than if it was false : But who was ever yet prosecuted for
writing or publishing a libel that was true ? I believe no person was ever yet
prosecuted for a libel , where the word false was not expresly mentioned in the ...
it rather more a libel , than if it was false : But who was ever yet prosecuted for
writing or publishing a libel that was true ? I believe no person was ever yet
prosecuted for a libel , where the word false was not expresly mentioned in the ...
Página 64
... bold and daring , one who could laugh to scorn the proudejt connections of
loyal families , true to the interest of their country and of their fama , dismiss their
chiefs with insolence , and tread on the necks of inferior patriots with Turkish
tyranny ...
... bold and daring , one who could laugh to scorn the proudejt connections of
loyal families , true to the interest of their country and of their fama , dismiss their
chiefs with insolence , and tread on the necks of inferior patriots with Turkish
tyranny ...
Página 82
The following state of it will probably be thought a fair one by both parties ; and
then I imagine there is no gentleman in this country , who will not be capable of
forming a judicious and true opinion upon it . I take the question to be strictly this
...
The following state of it will probably be thought a fair one by both parties ; and
then I imagine there is no gentleman in this country , who will not be capable of
forming a judicious and true opinion upon it . I take the question to be strictly this
...
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Página 185 - Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent. For the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires that the people should have property, without which they...
Página 186 - ... if any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
Página 228 - They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the rules of decorum as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character.
Página 228 - As well might Verres have returned to Sicily. You have twice escaped, my lord ; beware of a third experiment. The indignation of a whole people, plundered, insulted, and oppressed as they have been, will not always be disappointed.
Página 225 - ... as the encroachments of prerogative. He would be as little capable of bargaining with the minister for places for himself or his dependents, as of descending to mix himself in the intrigues of opposition.
Página 187 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Página 225 - Conscious of his own weight and importance, his conduct in parliament would be directed by nothing but the constitutional duty of a peer.
Página 185 - Men, therefore, in society having property, they have such a right to the goods, which by the law of the community are theirs, that nobody hath a right to take their substance or any part of it from them without their own consent; without this they have no property at all.
Página 87 - Consider, my Lord, whether this be an extremity to which their fears will permit them to advance...
Página 225 - Compare the natural dignity and importance of the richest peer of England; — the noble independence which he might have maintained in parliament, and the real interest and respect which...
Informações bibliográficas
| Título | The Political Register for ... Volume 5 de The Political Register for |
| Editora | J. Almon, 1769 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 2 ago. 2007 |
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