The Whisperer: Containing Several Spirited Essays on Civil Liberty, Volumul 1the Author, 1770 |
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Pagina 8
... petitions , which the king has received from the English nation ; and altho'I can con- ceive fome perfonal motives for not yielding to them , I can find none , in common prudence or decency , for treating them with contempt . Be affured ...
... petitions , which the king has received from the English nation ; and altho'I can con- ceive fome perfonal motives for not yielding to them , I can find none , in common prudence or decency , for treating them with contempt . Be affured ...
Pagina 9
... petitions was however a part of your original plan of go- vernment , nor will any confequences it has pro- duced account for your deferting your fovereign , in the midst of that diftrefs , in which you and your new friends had involved ...
... petitions was however a part of your original plan of go- vernment , nor will any confequences it has pro- duced account for your deferting your fovereign , in the midst of that diftrefs , in which you and your new friends had involved ...
Pagina 51
... petition dutifully reprefented to your Majefty the chief in- juries we have fuftained . We are unwilling to believe that your Majefty can flight the defires of your people , or be regardless of their affection , and deaf to their ...
... petition dutifully reprefented to your Majefty the chief in- juries we have fuftained . We are unwilling to believe that your Majefty can flight the defires of your people , or be regardless of their affection , and deaf to their ...
Pagina 54
... Petition ; they waited till twenty minutes af- ter two , when , the Levee being over , they , with the Remembrancer , were admitted into the Clofet , when Mr. Sheriff Townsend ad- dreffed himself to his Majefty in the following words ...
... Petition ; they waited till twenty minutes af- ter two , when , the Levee being over , they , with the Remembrancer , were admitted into the Clofet , when Mr. Sheriff Townsend ad- dreffed himself to his Majefty in the following words ...
Pagina 55
... Petition . To which his Majefty was pleafed to return this ig -le anfwer . " As the Cafe is intirely new , I will take time to confider of it , and tranfmit you an an- fwer by one of my principal Secretaries of State . " Is this the ...
... Petition . To which his Majefty was pleafed to return this ig -le anfwer . " As the Cafe is intirely new , I will take time to confider of it , and tranfmit you an an- fwer by one of my principal Secretaries of State . " Is this the ...
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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?
Pagina 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.