Some Remarks on the Present State of Affairs: Respectfully Addressed to the Marquis of LansdowneJohn Murray, 1831 - 128 หน้า |
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หน้า 67 - Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he shall be for a sanctuary...
หน้า 107 - God, the original of all just power: . . . that the commons of England, in parliament assembled, being chosen by, and representing, the people, have the supreme power in this nation : . . . that whatsoever is enacted, or declared for law, by the commons, in parliament assembled, hath the force of law; and all the people of this nation are concluded thereby, although the consent and concurrence of king, or house of peers be not had thereunto'.
หน้า 107 - That the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, do declare that the people are, under God, the original of all just power. And do also declare, that the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, being chosen by, and representing the people, have the supreme power in this nation.
หน้า 75 - Many who had been bred in the superior classes, not being able to find employment in their own business, would be glad to seek it in the lowest. The lowest class being not only overstocked with its own workmen, but with the overflowings of all the other classes, the competition for employment would be so great in it, as to reduce the wages of labour to the most miserable and scanty subsistence of the labourer.
หน้า 69 - A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers ; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
หน้า 126 - Every member, though chosen by one particular district, when elected and returned, serves for the whole realm. For the end of his coming thither is not particular, but general; not barely to advantage his constituents, but the common wealth.
หน้า 112 - That poor men, under this arbitrary power, were driven, like flocks of sheep, by forty in a morning ; to the confiscation of goods and estates ; without any man being able to give a reason why two of them had deserved to forfeit a shilling ! ' I tell you the truth. And my soul, and many persons...
หน้า 20 - Eliguntur in iisdem conciliis et principes, qui jura per pagos vicosque reddunt. Centeni singulis ex plebe comites, consilium •simul et auctoritas adsunt, ?i*^¿.
หน้า 112 - Law like to be lasting? It will be a rope of sand; it will give no security; for the same men may unbuild what they have built. ' Again,' is not Liberty of Conscience in Religion a Fundamental?
หน้า 119 - AD 1215, in the great charter granted by that prince; wherein he promises to summon all archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons, personally; and all other tenants in chief under the crown, by the sheriff and bailiffs; to meet at a certain place, with forty days' notice to assess aids and scutages when necessary.