The Political Constitutions of Great Britain and Ireland: Asserted and Vindicated; the Connection, and Common Interest of Both Kingdoms Demonstrated; and the Grievances which Each, and More Especially the Later, Has Suffered, Set Forth in Several Addresses and Letters to the Free-citizens of Dublin1751 - 614 pages |
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Page xii
... live by his Favor ? If You would know more of this worthy Judge's Regard to his King , do not take it from his aukward Attempts to fawn and flatter ; but fee how he fulfills and keeps his Majefty's Oath to his People of Ireland ...
... live by his Favor ? If You would know more of this worthy Judge's Regard to his King , do not take it from his aukward Attempts to fawn and flatter ; but fee how he fulfills and keeps his Majefty's Oath to his People of Ireland ...
Page xiv
... , were I not attended with a most melancholy Affociation of Ideas , upon reflect- ing , that the Lives and Liberties of mine unhappy Countrymen , Countrymen , are exposed to the Infolence , Ignorance or xiv PREFACE .
... , were I not attended with a most melancholy Affociation of Ideas , upon reflect- ing , that the Lives and Liberties of mine unhappy Countrymen , Countrymen , are exposed to the Infolence , Ignorance or xiv PREFACE .
Page xvii
... Lives , Liberties and Properties of the Subject , as the Laws directed ; that when he had ran counter to , or neglected , this Part of his Duty to his Subjects , the very End of the Inftitution of his Office , he broke and diffolved the ...
... Lives , Liberties and Properties of the Subject , as the Laws directed ; that when he had ran counter to , or neglected , this Part of his Duty to his Subjects , the very End of the Inftitution of his Office , he broke and diffolved the ...
Page xxii
... live under the fame common Head , and in fimilar Systems of Civil Society , give me Leave to fay , that I muft judge your neglecting their Concerns , as impolitic and unjuft , as it would be in You , to fee the Suburbs of this City , in ...
... live under the fame common Head , and in fimilar Systems of Civil Society , give me Leave to fay , that I muft judge your neglecting their Concerns , as impolitic and unjuft , as it would be in You , to fee the Suburbs of this City , in ...
Page xxxi
... Lives , Liberties and Pro- perties of their Pofterity , dependent on the abfolute Will of any one Man . No ; fuch was their Wisdom and Virtue , that they have left Us , in more Inftances than one , a Precedent , to teach Us , in fuch ...
... Lives , Liberties and Pro- perties of their Pofterity , dependent on the abfolute Will of any one Man . No ; fuch was their Wisdom and Virtue , that they have left Us , in more Inftances than one , a Precedent , to teach Us , in fuch ...
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Popular passages
Page 367 - Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom ; Give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
Page 468 - No FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR BE DISSEISED OF HIS FREEHOLD, OR LIBERTIES, OR FREE CUSTOMS, OR BE OUTLAWED, OR EXILED, OR ANY OTHERWISE DESTROYED ; NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR SEND UPON HIM, BUT BY LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Page 367 - When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Page 56 - ... and their heirs, of us and our heirs, in all things and places, for ever, as is aforesaid.
Page 54 - We will treat with Alexander, King of Scots, concerning the restoring his sisters and hostages, and his right and liberties, in the same form and manner as we shall do to the rest of our barons of England ; unless by the Charters which we have from his father, William, late King of Scots, it ought to be otherwise ; and this shall be left to the determination of his peers in our court.
Page 184 - Being returned of the vicinage whence the cause of action ariseth, the law supposeth them thence to have sufficient knowledge to try the matter in issue (and so they must), though no evidence were given on either side in court; but to this evidence the judge is a stranger.
Page 53 - ... legal judgment of his peers by King Henry our father, or by King Richard our brother, which we have in our hand, or...
Page 534 - Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months...
Page 53 - No man shall be taken or imprisoned upon the appeal of a woman, for the death of any other than her husband.
Page 52 - All Merchants (if they were not openly prohibited before) shall have their safe and sure Conduct to depart out of England, to come into England, to tarry in, and go through England, as well by Land as by Water, to buy and sell without any manner of evil Tolts, by the old and rightful Customs, except in Time of War.