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 R. Wilks, 1809 - 607 páginas |
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... purpose . In pages 327 , 328 , 329,364 .. NUMBER XXX . Reflections on the foregoing Tract , and on the Sketch of an Act of Parliament therein contained , and on the necessity of the Authority of an Act of Parliament , to render legal a ...
... purpose . In pages 327 , 328 , 329,364 .. NUMBER XXX . Reflections on the foregoing Tract , and on the Sketch of an Act of Parliament therein contained , and on the necessity of the Authority of an Act of Parliament , to render legal a ...
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... purpose . FOURTHLY . - To provide a competent legislature for the province of Quebeck . The beft legislature that could be provided for it would , as I believe , be á Proteftant Affembly chofen by the freeholders of the country ...
... purpose . FOURTHLY . - To provide a competent legislature for the province of Quebeck . The beft legislature that could be provided for it would , as I believe , be á Proteftant Affembly chofen by the freeholders of the country ...
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... purposes of juftice , and to procure a fair trial to the officers and foldiers who fhould happen to be indicted for actions done by them in the courfe of their duty as affiftants to the civil magiftrate in the execution of the laws ...
... purposes of juftice , and to procure a fair trial to the officers and foldiers who fhould happen to be indicted for actions done by them in the courfe of their duty as affiftants to the civil magiftrate in the execution of the laws ...
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... purpose : and that a feparate receiver and collector of the faid quit - rents and other royal dues , be appointed by the several Governors of the faid provinces refpectively in every separate province , who fhall hold his faid office ...
... purpose : and that a feparate receiver and collector of the faid quit - rents and other royal dues , be appointed by the several Governors of the faid provinces refpectively in every separate province , who fhall hold his faid office ...
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... purpose will , " I prefume , be about thirty thousand men . " Without this very important measure it would not be " poffible to carry the former measures into execution ; — ( 6 at leaft till the people of those provinces had become ...
... purpose will , " I prefume , be about thirty thousand men . " Without this very important measure it would not be " poffible to carry the former measures into execution ; — ( 6 at leaft till the people of those provinces had become ...
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Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical ... Francis Maseres Visualização integral - 1809 |
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Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical ... Francis Maseres Visualização integral - 1809 |
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abfolute act of parliament Affembly Affiftants affignes aforefaid againſt alfo alſo America appointed becauſe bishop British cafe Catholick caufe church Church of England colonies commiffion confent confequence confidered conftitution Council Court Crown defire England eſtabliſhed exerciſe faid Governour faid province fame feems fent ferve fervice feven feveral fhall fhould fince firft firſt fome fpirit France French ftate fubjects fuch fufficient fupport grant Great-Britain heirs and fucceffors himſelf Houfe Houſe inhabitants intereft John John Endecott juftice King King's laft lands late laws letters patents liberty Licenfing Lord Majefty Matthew Craddock meaſure ment minifters moft moſt muft muſt neceffary oath obferved occafion officers ordain paffed Parliament perfons pleaſure Popish prefent Priefts Proteftant publick publiſhed purpoſe reafon refpect religion Richard Bellingham Richard Perry Roman-Catholick ſaid ſhall ſtate ſuch thefe themſelves Theophilus Eaton thereof theſe thofe Thomas Goffe Thomas Hutchins thoſe tion uſe Vaffall whatſoever
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Página 248 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 245 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Página 204 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 221 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.
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Página 204 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Página 243 - ... backwardest scholars, of whom God offered to have made us the teachers. Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy...
Página 242 - They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and permit not others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth. To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it, (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional,) this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church ; not the forced and outward union of cold and neutral and inwardly divided...
Página 229 - And how can a man teach with authority, which is the life of teaching, how can he be a doctor in his book as he ought to be, or else had better be silent, whenas all he teaches, all he delivers, is but under the tuition, under the correction of his patriarchal licenser to blot or alter what precisely accords not with the hidebound humour which he calls his judgment?