 | John Almon - 1810 - 474 pages
...wished; and without this virtue should the Lords, the Commons, and the people of England, entrench themselves behind parchment up to the teeth, the sword...find a passage to the vitals of the constitution.' A petition from the city of Glasgow, praying to be reimbursed the sum of ten thousand pounds, extorted... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 470 pages
...wished ; and without this virtue should the Lords, the Commons, and the people of England, entrench themselves behind parchment up to the teeth, the sword...find a passage to the vitals of the constitution.' A petition from the city of Glasgow, praying to be reimbursed the sum of ten thousand pounds, extorted... | |
 | United States - 1811 - 676 pages
...father of political wisdom (Lord Chatham) say to the Parliament of England, ** entrench yourselves in parchment up to the teeth, the sword will find a passage to the vitals of the constitution." As good a republican as ever sat on that floor, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, had dissolved his political... | |
 | Military art and science - 1811 - 658 pages
...the commons, and the people of England, may intrench themselves behind parchment up to the teeth, but the sword will find a passage to the vitals of the constitution." There is an elegant little pamphlet, published in 1775, supposed to be the production of a uoble lord... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 400 pages
...opposers could have wished; and without this virtue, should the lords, the commons, and the people of England intrench themselves behind parchment up...the constitution." All the disputed articles of the hill being sustained on the shoulders of a great majority, it was conveyed to the upper house, where... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1822 - 494 pages
...opposers could have wished ; and without this virtue, should the lords, the commons, and the people of England, intrench themselves behind parchment up...vitals of the constitution." All the disputed articles u 2 of the bill being sustained on the shoulders of a great majority, it was conveyed to the upper... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 488 pages
...opposers could have wished; and without this virtue, should the lords, the commons, and the people of England, intrench themselves behind parchment up...violent contest. Upon the question, whether officers on half-pay had not been subject to martial law, the judges were consulted, and divided in their sentiments.... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1827 - 468 pages
...wished ; and without this virtue, should the lords, the commons, and the people of England entrench themselves behind parchment up to the teeth, the sword...violent contest. Upon the question whether officers on half-pay had not been subject to martial law, the judges were consulted and divided in their sentiments.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1836 - 840 pages
...opposers could have wished ; and without this virtue, should the lords, the commons, and the people of England intrench themselves behind parchment up...upper house, where it excited another violent contest : on the question whether officers on half-pay bad not been subject to martial law, the judges were... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1840 - 446 pages
...distance of time, by the editor of the " Parliamentary History." 1750. INCONSISTENCIES OP PITT. 287 the teeth, the sword will find a passage to the vitals of the constitution." All the arguments in defence of standing armies exhibit similar contradictions. The necessity of interweaving... | |
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To that virtue (said he), we trust even at this hour, small as our army is — to that virtue we must have trusted, had this bill been modelled as its warmest opposers could have wished; and without this virtue, should the lords, the commons, and the... 
