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Page 210 - I have not received, or had by myself, or any person whatsoever in trust for me, or for my use and benefit, directly or indirectly, any sum or sums of money, office, place, or employment, gift, or reward, or any promise or security for any money, office, employment, or gift, in order to give my vote at this election, and that I have not been before polled at this election.
Page 206 - An aft for the further limitation of the crown, and better fecuring the rights and liberties of the fubjeft...
Page 208 - Q^ Is it not a Maxim in the Law, that the King can do no Wrong ? A. It is : For, fince Kings do not...
Page 207 - Law, and all the three make but one Lawgiver •, that as to the Freedom of Confent in making of Laws, thofe three Powers are independent i and that each and all the three are bound to obferve the Laws that are made.
Page 207 - Mankind in a State of Slavery and Freedom is a different Sort of Creature; for Proof of This I have read what the Greeks were of old, and what they are now in a State of Slavery.
Page 249 - Order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe, appointed to take into Confideration the Supply granted to his Majefty...
Page 206 - Caufes of the Lofs of Liberty in other Countries ; Decay of Virtue and publick Spirit, Luxury, and Extravagance in Expence, Venality and Corruption, in private and publick Affairs.
Page 45 - While the greater part were engaged in scrambling for these pieces, he seized, to my inexpressible surprise, without the least fear, upon the sacred parchment itself. He rumpled it rudely up, and crammed it into his pocket. Some of the people began to murmur. He threw more gold and they were pacified.
Page 211 - Edward the Firft, Edward the Third, and Henry the Fifth, who would not let his People fwear to him till he had an Opportunity of fwearing to them, at his Coronation. And the Immortal Queen Elizabeth, who...
Page 210 - People ? A. The People ought to have more Security for all that is valuable in the World, than the Will of a mortal and fallible Man. A King of Britain may make as many Peers, and fuch as he pleafeth; therefore the laft and beft Security for the Liberties of the People, is a Houfe of Commons genuine and independent.