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Seite 95 - Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace, and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar: Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Seite 263 - Every friend of his country must lament that a Prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres, can be brought to give the sanction of his sacred name to the most odious measures, and to the most unjustifiable public declarations from a throne ever renowned for truth, honour, and unsullied virtue.
Seite 267 - What a shame was it to see the security of this country. in point of military force, complimented away, contrary to the opinion of royalty itself, and...
Seite 1 - ... sacred weapon, given for the defence of truth and liberty? A wicked and corrupt administration must naturally dread this appeal to the world; and will be for keeping all the means of information equally from the prince, parliament, and people. Every method will then be try'd, and all arts put in practice to check the spirit of knowledge and enquiry.
Seite 63 - Caligula's horse had not half the merit. We remember how nobly he was provided for. What the exact proportion of merit was between his lordship and his horse, and how far the pension should be divided between them, I will not take upon me to determine ; I leave this knotty point to be decided by the Earl of Eglingtoun, because Mr.
Seite 57 - I hope too that he is become a friend to this constitution and the family on the throne, now he is thus nobly provided for: but I know he has much to unwrite, more to unsay, before he will be forgiven by the true friends of the present illustrious family, for what he has been writing and saying for many years.
Seite 93 - In the year 1746, when the Guards were ordered to march to Finchley, on the...
Seite 158 - ... the payments of a willing and obedient people, as well as all the glorious toils and hazards of the soldiery, when God, for our sins, permitted the spirit of...
Seite 264 - I will venture to say he must by this time be ashamed of; for he has been brought to confess the total want of that knowledge accuracy, and precision by which such immense advantages both of trade and territory were sacrificed to our inveterate enemies.
Seite 268 - ... the general odium. The prerogative of the Crown is to exert the constitutional powers entrusted to it in a way, not of blind favour and partiality, but of wisdom and judgment. This is the spirit of our constitution. The people too have their prerogative, and I hope the fine words of Dryden will be engraven on our hearts — " Freedom is the English subject's prerogative.