The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794

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J. Exshaw., 1741

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Page 338 - Westminster; and to adjourn from time to time, and from place to place, as the said...
Page 476 - House has met before that day, or will meet on the day of the issue) issue his warrant to the clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for electing another member in the room of the member whose seat has so become vacant.
Page 11 - Too infamous to have a friend ; Too bad for bad men to commend, Or good to name ; beneath whose weight Earth groans ; who hath been spared by Fate Only to shew, on mercy's plan, «* How far and long God bears with man.
Page 175 - Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control ; for the judge would then be the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression.
Page 9 - That he would cringe, and creep, be civil, And hold a stirrup for the devil, If in a journey to his mind, He'd let him mount and ride behind...
Page 6 - Thro' which his bofom open lay To ev'ry one who pafs'd that way. Now turn'd adrift— with humbler face But prouder heart, his vacant place CORRUPTION fills, and bears the key; No entrance now without a fee; With belly round, and full, fat face, Which on the houfe reflected grace> Full of good: fare, and honeft glee., The Steward HOSPITALITY, Old.
Page 476 - Parliament, and the most audacious Defiance of the Authority of the whole Legislature; and most manifestly tending to alienate the Affections of the People from His Majesty, to withdraw them from their Obedience to the Laws of the Realm, and to excite them to traitorous Insurrections against His Majesty's Government.
Page 536 - Wherefore, Mr Speaker, her Majesty's pleasure is, That if you perceive any idle heads, which will not stick to hazard their own estates, which will meddle with reforming the Church and transforming the Commonwealth, and do exhibit any bills to such purpose, that you receive them not, until they be viewed and considered by those who it is fitter should consider of such things and can better judge of them.
Page 369 - tis the right of man, Imparted by his Maker, where he can, To former times and men his eye to cast, And judge of what's to come, by what is past.
Page 140 - ... and read a firft time, and ordered to be read a fecond time, and to be printed.

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