The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II, Том 4

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L. Baudry, 1827

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Сторінка 272 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of Right ought to have, full power and authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the Colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Сторінка 262 - THE Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles the...
Сторінка 101 - That neither House of Parliament had any power, by any vote or declaration, to create to themselves any new privilege that was not warranted by the known laws and customs of parliament.
Сторінка 176 - Assembly meets again, dissolves the meeting in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the head of the church (sometimes the words
Сторінка 68 - It is impossible to doubt for an instant, that if the queen's life had preserved the Tory government for a few years, every vestige of the toleration would have been effaced.
Сторінка 82 - A standing army is still a standing army, whatever name it be called by. They are a body of men distinct from the body of the people; they are governed by different laws; and blind obedience and an entire submission to the orders of their commanding officer is their only principle.
Сторінка 264 - To have exterminated the catholics by the sword , or expelled them , like the Moriscoes of Spain , would have been little more repugnant to justice and humanity, but incomparably more politic.
Сторінка 230 - P. 47. The bishop observed, says his biographer, "with much regret, that the English had all along neglected the Irish as a nation not only conquered hut undisciplinable; and that the clergy had scarce considered them as a part of their charge ; but had left them wholly into the hands of their own priests , without taking any other care of them but the making them pay their tithes.
Сторінка 223 - ... whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate in all parts of disobedience and rebellious disposition, him they set up and glorify in their rhythms, him they praise to the people, and to young men make an example to follow.
Сторінка 177 - M'Ean of Glencoe and that tribe can be well separated from the rest, it will be a proper vindication of the public justice to extirpate that set of thieves The double of these instructions is only communicated to Sir Thomas Livingston.

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