A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great-Britain, from the First Invasion of the Romans, to the Year 1763: With Genealogical and Political Tables ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 - Great Britain |
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... received from Mr. Planta , the principal librarian of that rich collection , have enabled me to elucidate some parts of the English history hitherto unknown , and to rectify errors of some importance , though adopted by learned and ...
... received from Mr. Planta , the principal librarian of that rich collection , have enabled me to elucidate some parts of the English history hitherto unknown , and to rectify errors of some importance , though adopted by learned and ...
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... received it , but accompanied with a letter from the lord keeper , commanding him , in the king's name , to absent himself from parliament . Bristol submitted this letter to the lords , asking advice how to proceed . The king's ...
... received it , but accompanied with a letter from the lord keeper , commanding him , in the king's name , to absent himself from parliament . Bristol submitted this letter to the lords , asking advice how to proceed . The king's ...
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... received a total change , from a better knowledge of the true spirit of the constitution ; and the royal prerogative , such as he conceived it , was a sacred pledge which it was not in his power to alienate , much less his duty to ...
... received a total change , from a better knowledge of the true spirit of the constitution ; and the royal prerogative , such as he conceived it , was a sacred pledge which it was not in his power to alienate , much less his duty to ...
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... received as subsidies but as loans . These means , however authorised by precedents , and even by statute , were a violation of liberty , and tended so openly to render all parliaments superfluous , that a general alarm prevailed among ...
... received as subsidies but as loans . These means , however authorised by precedents , and even by statute , were a violation of liberty , and tended so openly to render all parliaments superfluous , that a general alarm prevailed among ...
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... received a pardon , and was promoted to a living of considerable value . Some years after , he was raised to the see of St. Asaph . After such an instance of insincerity , what reliance from the king's promises could be expected ? The ...
... received a pardon , and was promoted to a living of considerable value . Some years after , he was raised to the see of St. Asaph . After such an instance of insincerity , what reliance from the king's promises could be expected ? The ...
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Page 480 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Page 534 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 480 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page 20 - 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 510 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel and the protestant reformed religion established by law...
Page 473 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Page 179 - ... in that very hour when he was thus wickedly murdered in the sight of the sun, he had as great a share in the hearts and affections of his subjects in general, was as much beloved, esteemed, and longed for by the people in general of the three nations, as any of his predecessors had ever been.
Page 178 - Consider, it will soon carry you a great way; it will carry you from earth to heaven; and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.
Page 8 - I pray you to consider what these new counsels are, and may be. I fear to declare those that I conceive. In all Christian kingdoms you know that parliaments were in use anciently, until the monarchs began to know their own strength ; and, seeing the turbulent spirit of their parliaments, at length they, by little and little, began to stand upon their prerogatives, and at last overthrew the parliaments throughout Christendom, except here only -with us.
Page 63 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.