An Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution: From the Reign of Henry VII. to the Present Time |
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... abuses of power ; and of moderation in the use of the remedy 226 231 230 CHAP . XXIV . Criminal law 241 CHAP . XXV . Public schools • 251 CHAP . XXVI . Poor laws 262 CHAP . XXVII . 268 War with the French republic CHAP . XXVIII . Page ...
... abuses of power ; and of moderation in the use of the remedy 226 231 230 CHAP . XXIV . Criminal law 241 CHAP . XXV . Public schools • 251 CHAP . XXVI . Poor laws 262 CHAP . XXVII . 268 War with the French republic CHAP . XXVIII . Page ...
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... abuses which prevailed in the monasteries were not , however , a groundless pretext . The relations of the visitors who were appointed by the King to reform the monasteries , and report their state , display grounds for believing that ...
... abuses which prevailed in the monasteries were not , however , a groundless pretext . The relations of the visitors who were appointed by the King to reform the monasteries , and report their state , display grounds for believing that ...
Page 67
... abuses of the executive government , before they supplied it with fresh means of setting law and economy at defiance . A rigid enquiry into the public means and the public expences was at all events justly due to the nation , of which ...
... abuses of the executive government , before they supplied it with fresh means of setting law and economy at defiance . A rigid enquiry into the public means and the public expences was at all events justly due to the nation , of which ...
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... abuses , punished the tools of tyranny , and insisted upon keeping in their own hands the armed force of the country , lest the king should use the first moment after the dissolution of Parliament to re - establish his illegal power ...
... abuses , punished the tools of tyranny , and insisted upon keeping in their own hands the armed force of the country , lest the king should use the first moment after the dissolution of Parliament to re - establish his illegal power ...
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... abuse only is criminal . Eligibility to office may also be comprehended under this head . By political liberty , I mean the acknow- ledged and legal right of the people to control their government , or to take a share in it . Each of ...
... abuse only is criminal . Eligibility to office may also be comprehended under this head . By political liberty , I mean the acknow- ledged and legal right of the people to control their government , or to take a share in it . Each of ...
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Page 109 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Page 258 - All this is true if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.
Page 102 - And whereas the Laws of England are the birthright of the people thereof, and all the Kings and Queens, who shall ascend the Throne of this realm, ought to administer the Government of the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same...
Page 376 - Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Page 203 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown ; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable.
Page 148 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 112 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 376 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government. It is the liberty, Lords and Commons, which your...
Page 3 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Page 47 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England; and that the arduous and urgent affairs concerning the King, State, and defence of the realm and of the Church of England, and the maintenance and making of laws, and redress of mischiefs and grievances which daily happen within this realm, are proper subjects and matter of counsel and debate in Parliament...