The North Briton, XLVI: Numbers Complete, Volumen21772 |
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Página 254 - ... the general odium. The prerogative of the Crown is to exert the constitutional powers entrusted to it in a way, not of blind favour and partiality, but of wisdom and judgment. This is the spirit of our constitution. The people too have their prerogative, and I hope the fine words of Dryden will be engraven on our hearts — " Freedom is the English subject's prerogative.
Página 250 - Is the spirit of concord to go hand in hand with the peace and excise through this nation? Is it to be expected between an insolent exciseman and a peer, gentleman, freeholder, or farmer, whose private houses are now made liable to be entered and searched at pleasure?
Página 252 - Easter week; but this ignominious act has not yet disgraced the nation in the London Gazette. The ministry are not ashamed of doing the thing in private; they are only afraid of the publication. Was it a tender regard for the honour of the late king, or of his present majesty, that invited to court lord George Sackville, in...
Página 245 - The infamous fallacy of this whole sentence is apparent to all mankind: for it is known, that the king of Prussia did not barely approve, but absolutely dictated, as conqueror, every article of the terms of peace.
Página 253 - Or, is it meant to assert the honour of the crown only against the united wishes of a loyal and affectionate people, founded in a happy experience of the talents, ability, integrity, and virtue of those, who have had the glory of redeeming their country from bondage and ruin, in order to support, by every art of corruption and intimidation, a weak, disjointed, incapable set of...
Página 250 - In vain will such a minister, or the foul dregs of his power, the tools of corruption and despotism, preach up in the speech that spirit of concord and that obedience to the laws which is essential to good order. They have sent the spirit of discord through the land, and I will prophecy that it will never be extinguished but by the extinction of their power.
Página 249 - Lord Ligonier is now no longer at the head of the army; but lord Bute in effect is; I mean that every preferment given by the crown will be found...
Página 16 - Tis here grave poets urge their claim, For fome thin blaft of tiny fame ; Here bind their temples drunk with praife, With half a fprig of wither'd bays.
Página 18 - DONLD'S without end ; To GEORGE awhile they tune their lays, Then all their choral voices raife, To heap their panegyric wit on Th' illuftrious chief, and our NORTH BRITON.
Página 249 - Many unnecessary expenses have been incurred, only to increase the power of the Crown; that is, to create more lucrative jobs for the creatures of the Minister.