The Case Stated on Philosophical Ground, Between Great Britain and Her Colonies: ...G. Kearsley, 1777 - 129 pages |
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... thofe they proudly call their fubjects and vaf- fals . Nor can a king , with any profpect of being heard , retire to his closet to ask God forgiveness for his fins , if he has , by the medium of his fleets and armies , fhed the blood of ...
... thofe they proudly call their fubjects and vaf- fals . Nor can a king , with any profpect of being heard , retire to his closet to ask God forgiveness for his fins , if he has , by the medium of his fleets and armies , fhed the blood of ...
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... thofe fagacious politicians that would contemplate our Liberties and Properties with shameful partiality , will be ready to exclaim here , What ! is not the Prefs become the vehicle of scandal , flan- der and defamation ? is any thing ...
... thofe fagacious politicians that would contemplate our Liberties and Properties with shameful partiality , will be ready to exclaim here , What ! is not the Prefs become the vehicle of scandal , flan- der and defamation ? is any thing ...
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... . The diseases of a state , like many of thofe that attack the human constitution , are almost always chronical , that is , run through through an indeterminate period , not within the political phyfician's ( xxxii )
... . The diseases of a state , like many of thofe that attack the human constitution , are almost always chronical , that is , run through through an indeterminate period , not within the political phyfician's ( xxxii )
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... thofe palliatives , which have been found most useful to fuch a conftitution ; the chief of which would seem to be a perfect conqueft of the royal paffions - a total relinquishment of of extraordinary royal cares and wordly acquifitions ...
... thofe palliatives , which have been found most useful to fuch a conftitution ; the chief of which would seem to be a perfect conqueft of the royal paffions - a total relinquishment of of extraordinary royal cares and wordly acquifitions ...
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of mortality , called royal and imperial , those high epithets , thofe fuperlatively august titles ( Moft Dread Sovereign , Most Sacred Majefty , Moft Excellent Majesty , & c . & c . ) which alone belong to the Great God of Heaven , and ...
of mortality , called royal and imperial , those high epithets , thofe fuperlatively august titles ( Moft Dread Sovereign , Most Sacred Majefty , Moft Excellent Majesty , & c . & c . ) which alone belong to the Great God of Heaven , and ...
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Page 122 - Noe, fo fhall it be alfo in the days of the ** Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they " married wives, they were given in marriage ** until the day that Noe entered into the ark : " and the flood came and deftroyed them all.
Page 105 - Being thus delivered from a foreign yoke, their firft care will be the choice of a proper government; and it is not difficult to...
Page xxiii - ... and he will take the tenth of your men servants, and your maid servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work: and he will take the tenth of your sheep, and ye shall be his servants, and ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen, AND THE LORD WILL NOT HEAR YOU IN THAT DAY.
Page xxii - ... and to make his inftruments of war, and inftruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the beft of them, and give them to his fervants.
Page xxii - ... run before his .chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thoufands, and captains over fifties ; and will fet them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvefts, and to make his inftruments of war, and inftruments of his chariots.
Page x - Te know that the princes of the Gentiles exercife dominion over them, and they that are great exercife authority upon them ; but it jhall not be fo...
Page 122 - was in the days of Lot. They did eat, they drank, * they bought, they fold, they planted, they builded. ' But the fame day that Lot went out of Sodom, he * rained fire and brimftone from heaven, and de'•flroyed them all. Even thus fhall it be when the
Page 128 - Let the parents (over-weeningly tenacious of domeftic authority) recal thofe ingenious and high-blooded youths into his family once more, and conquer them to his will by the moft irrefiftible of all methods, good ufage.
Page xxii - ... even the bejl of them, and give them to his fervants : and he will take the tenth of your feed, and of...
Page 56 - Colonies may become greater, wealthier, and more powerful, than the birth-giving State.