The Works of Jonathan Swift ...

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G. Bell and Sons, 1900
 

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Página 101 - Majesty the several rates and duties hereinafter mentioned; and do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal...
Página 25 - His wife, the duchess, may justly challenge her place in this list. It is to her the duke is chiefly indebted for his greatness and his fall ; for above twenty years she possessed, without a rival, the favours of the most indulgent mistress in the world, nor ever missed one single opportunity that fell in her way of improving it to her own advantage. She...
Página 116 - Marlborough's deduction of two and a half per cent, from the pay of the foreign troops, was also applied for carrying on the war." Lastly, within this period is to be included the Act passed to prevent the disturbing those of the Episcopal Communion in...
Página 152 - The nature of this proposal is such that it executes itself; the interest of Spain is to support it ; and in France, the persons to whom that succession is to belong will be ready and powerful enough to vindicate their own right. " France and Spain are now more effectually divided than ever. And thus, by the blessing of God, will a real balance of power be fixed in Europe, and remain liable to as few accidents as human affairs can be exempted from.
Página 25 - Tory principle ; and continued with a strong bias that way, till the other party had bid higher for him than his friends could afford to give. His want of literature is in some sort supplied by a good understanding, a degree of natural elocution, and that knowledge of the world which is learned in armies and courts. We are not to take...
Página 156 - Madrid can return; it is, therefore, the Queen's positive command to your grace, that you avoid engaging in any siege or hazarding a battle till you have further orders from her Majesty. I am at the same time directed to let your grace know that the Queen would have you disguise the receipt of this order...
Página 25 - The Learned Comment on Dr. Hare's Sermon," and " The Examiner." [TS] 4 P. Fitzgerald adds "altogether." [WSJ] seem not to consider that this accusation is charged at a venture ; since the person of a wise general is too seldom exposed, to form any judgment in the matter : and that fear, which is said to have sometimes...
Página 23 - Revolution had restored began to teach other lessons — that since we had accepted a new king from a Calvinistical commonwealth, we must also admit new maxims in religion and government. But since the nobility and gentry would probably adhere to the established church and to the rights of monarchy, as delivered down from...
Página 124 - Among the matters of importance during this session, we may justly number the proceedings of the House of Commons with relation to the press ; since her majesty's message to the House, of January the seventeenth, concludes with a paragraph, representing the great licences taken in publishing false and scandalous libels, such as are a reproach to any government ; and recommending to them to find a remedy equal to the mischief.
Página xxii - a party pamphlet, founded on the lie of the day, which, as lord Bolingbroke who had read it often assured me, was coined and delivered out to him, to write Examiners, and other political papers upon.

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