A Complete History of England: From the Descent of Julius Caesar, to the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle, 1748. Containing the Transactions of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three Years, Volume 9 |
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... person brought the English cavalry to their affiftance . They fought with great gallantry ; and for fome time retarded the fate of the day . The infantry was rallied , and ftood firm until all their ammunition was expended . In a word ...
... person brought the English cavalry to their affiftance . They fought with great gallantry ; and for fome time retarded the fate of the day . The infantry was rallied , and ftood firm until all their ammunition was expended . In a word ...
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... person who was not a member of either house ; and that the remain- der was ftill in his hands . Rainsford owned he had the original letter which he received from Falk- land , demanding the money ; and this nobleman defiring to fee it ...
... person who was not a member of either house ; and that the remain- der was ftill in his hands . Rainsford owned he had the original letter which he received from Falk- land , demanding the money ; and this nobleman defiring to fee it ...
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... persons of known care and fidelity ; and defired that the members of both houfes would be more than ordinarily vigilant in preferving the pub- lic peace . Then the parliament was prorogued to the eighteenth of June + . The king ...
... persons of known care and fidelity ; and defired that the members of both houfes would be more than ordinarily vigilant in preferving the pub- lic peace . Then the parliament was prorogued to the eighteenth of June + . The king ...
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... persons to bring in their clipped money to be recoined , after which they fhould have no allowance upon what they might offer . They addreffed the king to iffue a proclamation agreeable to these refolutions ; and on the nineteenth day ...
... persons to bring in their clipped money to be recoined , after which they fhould have no allowance upon what they might offer . They addreffed the king to iffue a proclamation agreeable to these refolutions ; and on the nineteenth day ...
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... person of the prince of Orange . He owned , however , that he was privy to the defign ; but believed it was known to few or none but the immediate undertakers . These two criminals were in their last moments attended by Collier , Snatt ...
... person of the prince of Orange . He owned , however , that he was privy to the defign ; but believed it was known to few or none but the immediate undertakers . These two criminals were in their last moments attended by Collier , Snatt ...
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Page 215 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 7 - The great seal, with the title of lord keeper, was bestowed upon sir John Somers, who was well skilled in the law, as in many other branches of polite and useful literature. He possessed a remarkable talent for business, in which he exerted great patience and assiduity; was gentle, candid, and equitable: a whig in principles, yet moderate, pacific, and conciliating.
Page 218 - Ryswick ; and he is said to have tampered, by means of his agents and emissaries, with the members of the English parliament, that they might oppose all steps tending to a new war on the continent.
Page 32 - The project was violently opposed by a strong party, who affirmed that it would become a monopoly, and engross the whole money of the kingdom; that, as it must infallibly be subservient to government views, it might be employed to the worst purposes of arbitrary power; that instead of assisting it would weaken commerce, by tempting people to withdraw their money from trade and employ it in stock-jobbing; that it would produce a swarm of brokers and jobbers to prey upon their fellow-creatures, encourage...
Page 215 - Commissions be made Quamdiu se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established ; but upon the Address of both Houses of Parliament it may be lawful to remove them. That no pardon under the Great Seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons in Parliament.
Page 139 - ... of the defects in his education, and of the gross ignorance that overspread his dominions, resolved to extend his ideas, and improve his judgment, by travelling ; and that he might be the less restricted by forms, or interrupted by officious curiosity, he determined to travel in disguise.
Page 449 - The battle began about two in the afternoon, and the whole front of each army was fully engaged. The...
Page 60 - ... firm purpose to maintain the presbyterian discipline in the church of Scotland. Then he promised, in the king's name, that if they would pass an act for establishing a colony in Africa, America, or any other part of the world where a colony might be lawfully planted, his majesty would indulge them with such rights and privileges as he had granted in like cases to the subjects of his other dominions. Finally, he exhorted them to consider ways and means to...
Page 404 - London, and other cities, had contributed considerably to the suppression of vice: he was sure the corporation for propagating the gospel had done a great deal towards instructing men in religion, by giving great numbers of books in practical divinity; by erecting...
Page 254 - ... the house of commons : that to print or publish any books, or libels, reflecting upon the proceedings of the house of commons, or any member thereof, for or relating to his service therein, is a high violation of the rights and privileges of the house of commons.