The Plebeians: By a Member of the House of CommonsS. Popping, 1719 - 67 pages |
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Page 65 - Death, he thus advises his Friends. Remember, 0 my Friends, the Laws, the Rights, The Gen'rous Plan of Power deliver 'd down From Age to Age by your renown 'd Forefathers, (So dearly bought, the Price of so much Blood) 0 let it never perish in your Hands!
Page 40 - They seem to me to have been for many years, and to be at present, a just and honourable body. This, I think, is owing to the frame of that body, and the situation it is in. I am against altering either, lest they should become tyrannical and odious. The Old Whig represents them...
Page 34 - Dyet, by getting up on horseback. And therefore this power now in the Crown, and which has been in it for so many ages, is necessary for the good of the whole community, to prevent the greatest confusion, which might otherwise arise from the passions of men. The Crown once parted with this power out of its hands to the Commons ; and that concession produced the ruin of the monarchy, and of the Peerage.
Page 40 - ... a nature as I dare not venture to repeat, but must refer to his own words; and yet contends to vest them with much greater powers than they now have. I have but one remark more to make upon this author, which is indeed in a matter of the last consequence, and which cannot be thoroughly considered till the next paper. The author of the Old Whig has very truly stated the power of the Crown, as it relates to the legislature, in these words: "The Crown, as a branch of the legislature, cannot desire...
Page 42 - THE Plebeian expected before now to have heard again from the OLD WHIG, especially as to his making good the last particular taken notice of in the Paper, Numb. II. which relates to the part he was...
Page 8 - But another consequence, of a much higher nature, attending the limitation of the number of Peers, is the danger there will be of changing the Constitution by this means into an Aristocracy ; and this may at any time in such case be effected by the confederacy of two or three great families, which would form such a body amongst the Lords as the Crown would not be able to control.
Page 18 - Constitution in a great measure, to take a considerable part of what power is left to the Crown from the Crown, and by that means add very much to the power of the Lords. Besides, it is to be remembered, that the evil, which may be brought upon the Commons by this means, will be irretrievable. Those persons deceive themselves, who think, that if such a law should prove destructive, it may be annulled, nothing being more usual than for one parliament to repeal the acts of another. This is true in...
Page 64 - PLEBEIAN has made the best of a weak cause ; and do believe, that a good one would shine in his hands ; for which reason I shall advise him as a friend, if he goes on in his new vocation, to take care that he be as happy in the choice of his subject, as he is in the talents of a Pamphleteer.
Page 29 - Heralds know any thing of this matter, would take more time to examine into, than, I dare say, the Constitution it is intended to introduce would subsist. But supposing, for argument sake, that that Calculation is right, and that in one hundred and sixteen years there have been one hundred...
Page 65 - Authors in these cases are named upon suspicion ; and if it is right as to the Old Whig, I leave the world to judge of this cause by comparison of this performance to his other writings. And I shall say no more of what is writ in...