The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Volume 28 |
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Page 103 - the streets, that they may be seen by men. Verily, I say unto you, they have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father, who
Page 353 - took solid securities ; we settled doubtful questions ; we corrected anomalies in our law. In the stable fundamental parts of our constitution we made no revolution ; no, nor any alteration at all. We did not impair the monarchy : perhaps it might be shown that we strengthened it very considerably. The
Page 353 - ruined, which ought only to be corrected and legalized. With us we got rid of the man, and preserved the constituent parts of the state. There they get rid of the constituent parts of the state, and keep the man. What we did was in truth and substance, and in a constitutional light, a revolution, not made, but prevented,
Page 617 - The order of the day for the second reading of the Bill " for appointing commissioners to inquire into the extent and value of certain rights, revenues, and possessions, in the Isle of Man,
Page 395 - before their admission into any office civil or military or any place of trust under the Crown, to- receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper according to the rites of the church of England.
Page 411 - as requires persons, before their admission into any office civil or military or any place of trust under the Crown, to- receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper according to the rites of the church
Page 355 - friend, such his knowledge of his principles, such the value which he set upon them, and such the estimation in which he held his friendship, that if he were to put all the political information which he had learnt from hooks, all which he had gained from science, and all which any ; knowledge of the world and its affairs had
Page 353 - of a legal monarch attempting arbitrary power—in France, it is the case of an arbitrary monarch, beginning, from whatever cause, to legalize his authority. The one was to be resisted, the other was to be managed and directed ; but in neither case was the order of the state to be changed, lest government might
Page 107 - in law, or to prosecute any suit in equity, or. to be guardian of any child, or executor, or administrator of any person, or capable of any legacy or deed of gift, and shall forfeit
Page 105 - of the church is rightly cut oft' from the unity of the church and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful as an heathen