Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance: by the Reverend Doctor Hurd. In Three VolumesT. Cadell in the Strand, 1776 |
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Seite 45 - Countries) are far under the fame : and if the late queen would have believed her men of war, as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces, and made their kings kings of figs and oranges, as in old times.
Seite 311 - AND as the canon laws are the pope's laws, fo we are told, on the fame fupreme authority, that the Englijh laws are the king's. For thus on another occafion his majefty exprefles himfelf. — "Although a
Seite 311 - I have said, a good king will frame all his actions to be according to the Law; yet is hee not bound thereto but of his good will, and for good example-giving to his subjects...
Seite 25 - Truly it is a rare thing with us now, to hear of a courtier which hath but his own language.
Seite 309 - Canon laws proceeded from, and had perpetual reference to, an absolute spiritual monarch, and were formed upon the genius, and did acknowledge the authority of, the civil laws, — the issue of civil despotism, — I say, whoever considers this, will be inclined to think that the Crown contrived this interim from the use the Canon law was of to the extension of the prerogative. However, It is certain, that the succeeding monarchs, Elizabeth, James, and...
Seite 33 - Essex, his hearse being attended by poets, and mournful elegies and poems with the pens that wrote them thrown into his tomb.
Seite 285 - The reftlefs endeavours of papifts and puritans againft the ecclefiaftical eftablifhment gave a colour for the continuance of it. But, as all matters that regarded religion or confcience were fubjected to its fole cognizance and infpection, it was prefently feen how wide an entrance it gave to the mod tyrannical ufurpations.
Seite 323 - Where Mr. Holborne," says justice Berkley, " supposed a fundamental policy in the creation of the frame of this kingdom, that in case the monarch of England should be inclined to exact from his subjects at his pleasure, he should be restrained, for that he could have nothing from them, but upon a common consent in parliament ; he is utterly mistaken herein.
Seite 236 - The fury that appeared on this occasion, did spread itself with a sort of, contagion : for the intendants and other officers, that had been mild and gentle in the former parts of their life, seemed now to have laid aside the compassion of Christians, the breeding of gentlemen, and the common impressions of humanity.
Seite 90 - I went through geography so often with him, that he knew all the maps very particularly. I explained to him the forms of government in every country, with the interests and trade of that country, and what was both good and bad in it : I acquainted him with all the great revolutions that had been in the world, and gave him a copious account of the Greek and Roman histories, and of Plutarch's Lives; the last thing I explained to him was the Gothic constitution, and the beneficiary and feudal laws...