Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical; Extracted Partly from the Publick Newspapers, During the Present Reign, and Partly from Tracts Published in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King Charles I., King Charles II, and from Bishop Burnet's History of His Own TimesFrancis Maseres |
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... muft , in the next place , obferve , that the House of Com- mons , when they paffed that refolution , were acting in a judicial , and not in a legislative , capacity : they were deter- mining whether , according to the laws then in ...
... muft , in the next place , obferve , that the House of Com- mons , when they paffed that refolution , were acting in a judicial , and not in a legislative , capacity : they were deter- mining whether , according to the laws then in ...
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... muft extend very far and wide , by " means of their particular connections ; whereas a Council " of Twelve , feveral of whom are always abfent , can have " little weight , nor can their voices be heard amidst the cla- " mour of ...
... muft extend very far and wide , by " means of their particular connections ; whereas a Council " of Twelve , feveral of whom are always abfent , can have " little weight , nor can their voices be heard amidst the cla- " mour of ...
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... muft excite the concern of the congrega . " tion here affembled , is the ftate of religion in those pro- " vinces ; which , it must be confeffed , has hitherto been too little attended - to by the government of Great - Britain . " But ...
... muft excite the concern of the congrega . " tion here affembled , is the ftate of religion in those pro- " vinces ; which , it must be confeffed , has hitherto been too little attended - to by the government of Great - Britain . " But ...
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... muft , in fuch a ftate of things , be principally levied upon the landed property of the kingdom . All these misfortunes , and more , were likely to be the confequence of the failure of fuccefs in this attempt to fubjugate America . And ...
... muft , in fuch a ftate of things , be principally levied upon the landed property of the kingdom . All these misfortunes , and more , were likely to be the confequence of the failure of fuccefs in this attempt to fubjugate America . And ...
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... muft fo cripple it , as to render it incapable of fupporting itself against your operations . Whilft this was doing , about fixteen hundred troops , under a fenfible and an active officer , kept North - Carolina not only at bay , but in ...
... muft fo cripple it , as to render it incapable of fupporting itself against your operations . Whilft this was doing , about fixteen hundred troops , under a fenfible and an active officer , kept North - Carolina not only at bay , but in ...
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