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Page 59 - Would he were fatter! but I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius.
Page 39 - Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That...
Page 276 - I'll readily give you Damn'd ignorant prelates, and counsellors privy. Then let us no longer by parsons be flamm'd, For we know by these marks the place of the damn'd: And HELL to be sure is at Paris or Rome. How happy for us that it is not at home!
Page 276 - Privy, Then let us no longer by Parfons be flamm'd, For We know by thefe Marks, the Place of the Damn'd : And HELL to be fure is at Paris or Rome, How happy for Us, that it is not at Home ! APOLLO: Or, a PROBLEM fohed.
Page 39 - Being for difabling Perfons from being chofen Members of, or fitting or voting in the Houfe of Commons, who have any Penfion during Pleafure, or for any Number of Years, or any Offices holden in Truft for them...
Page 40 - And by every fuch member of the houfe of commons, at the table in the middle of the faid houfe, and...
Page 40 - Houfe, as aforefaid, fuch Member fhall be, and is hereby adjudged and declared to be guilty of wilful and corrupt Perjury, and being thereof convicted by due Courfe of Law, fhall incur and fuffer the Pains and Penalties, which, by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, are...
Page 39 - ... sworn and declared, that they had not directly, nor indirectly, any pension during pleasure, or for any number of years, or any office in part, or in the whole, held for them, or for their benefit, by any persons whatsoever; and that they would not accept any such pensions or offices, without signifying the same to the house within fourteen days after they should be received or accepted.
Page 40 - Number of Years, or any Office from the Crown, in Part, or in the Whole, held in Truft for him, or...
Page 37 - People ; for,, firit, altho' this Influence appears to be that of the Crown, it may become virtually • that of the Minifter, and be applied to...

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