The Historical Register: Containing an Impartial Relation of All Transactions, Foreign and Domestick. For the Year 1716-1738, Band 1Sun Fire Office, 1717 |
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Seite 371 - ... that it may be declared and enacted, That all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration, are the true, ancient, and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom...
Seite 187 - I mould take this occafion to make fome obfervations to your lordfhips upon it, to the end that the judgment to be given againft you may clearly appear to be juft and righteous, as well as legal; and that you may not remain under any fatal error in...
Seite 375 - the nation has been in a series of contentions ; the first year of a Triennial Parliament has been spent in vindictive decisions and animosities about the late elections; the second session has entered into business ; but rather with a spirit of contradiction to what the prevailing set of men in former Parliaments had brought to...
Seite 138 - Providence to blefs them with aperies of fuitable Succefs: And I cannot but take this Opportunity of doing Juftice to the Officers and Soldiers of the Army, whofe brave and faithful Difcharge of their Duty, has difappointed our Enemies, and contributed fo much to the Safety of the Nation. " I did hope, that the detecting and preventing the defign'd...
Seite 131 - ... you had not been born to it; which makes us confident, that it will be your Majesty's care to make your subjects a happy people, and so to secure them in their religion, liberties, and property, as to leave no just ground of distrust, and to unite us all in true Christianity, according to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the practice of the primitive Christians.
Seite 180 - I only beg leave of my noble Peers to repeat a few circumftances mentioned in my anfwer to the Articles of impeachment exhibited againft me by the honourable Houfe of Commons. " But the terrors of your Lordfhips...
Seite 377 - Right, as to him feems befl, and moft for the Good and Benefit of his People, .without Application to Parliament, either to approve or confirm. But admitting that of late Years Parliaments have thought themfelves entitled to interpofe their Advice in Treaties and Alliances, (though I deny it to be their Right) this is an Argument iiugiy fufficient with me to fupport the Triennial Bill.
Seite 132 - Heaven very often enhances our blessings by disappointments, and your majesty's safe arrival after such a train of difficulties, and so many attempts, makes us not doubt but that God is propitious to your just cause. " As your majesty's arrival was seasonable, so it was surprising. We were happy and we knew it not. We had the...
Seite 281 - ... of Isla in supporting the Bill, though certainly exaggerated, might perhaps have deserved some attention in the remodelling of our representative system, as showing the dangers of a mere pecuniary qualification, and its fluctuation according to the changes in the precious metals.
Seite 189 - Lordships own Epithets), which all the World, as well as your Lordships, acknowledge to be in His Majesty, and which you now lay Claim to, ought certainly to have withheld your Hands from endeavouring to...