The Life and Times of "England's Patriot King", William the Fourth: With a Brief Memoir of Her Majesty, Queen Adelaide, and Her Family

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Página 740 - I will." Archbishop.—" Will you, to the utmost of your power, maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ? And will you maintain and preserve inviolate the settlement of the church of England, and the doctrine, worship, and discipline, and government thereof, as by law established within
Página 740 - his hands. Archbishop.—" Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of Great Britain, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the statutes in Parliament agreed on, and the respective laws and customs of the same ?" Archbishop.—
Página 740 - the king as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by Him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well."
Página 393 - first time, and ordered to be printed. On the 5th of February, the order of the day for the second reading of the bill having been read, Lord Grenville repeated all his former arguments against this nefarious traffic, and concluded his speech with a brilliant encomium upon the talents, virtue, and perseverance of Mr. Wilberforce, to
Página 698 - most constitutionally and authentically expressed, on the expediency of making such changes in the representation as circumstances may appear to require, and which, founded upon the acknowledged principles of the constitution, may tend at once to uphold the just rights and prerogatives of the crown, and to give security to the liberties of the people."
Página 692 - scheme, and inferred from thence that there was no stable principle in it, moved, " That in the opinion of this house, the total number of knights, citizens, and burgesses, returned to parliament for that part of the United Kingdom called England and Wales, ought not to be diminished.
Página 740 - Archbishop.—" Will you, to the utmost of your power, cause law and justice in mercy to be executed in all your judgments ?" King.—" I solemnly promise so to do.
Página 723 - 231 ; leaving a majority of 136 in favour of ministers. On the 12th, Lord John Russell having moved that the house should resolve itself into a committee on the reform bill, a scene arose, unprecedented in the history of parliament.
Página 714 - for its adjustment, you will carefully adhere to the acknowledged principles of the constitution, by which the prerogatives of the crown, the authority of both houses of parliament, and the rights and liberties of the people, are equally secured.—The
Página 741 - union of the two kingdoms ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of England, and to the churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by

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