 | William Russell - 1802 - 542 Seiten
...taxes were supported by arbitrary " punishments ! and all the privileges of the nation, trans" mitted through so many ages, secured by so many laws, " and purchased by the blood of so many heroes and pa" triots, now lay prostrate at the foot of the throne. What, " though the personal character... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 504 Seiten
...to civil usurpation; iniquitous taxes are supported by arbitrary punishments; and all the privileges of the nation, transmitted through so many ages, secured by so many laws, and purchased by the blood of / 50 many heroes and patriots, now lie prostrate at the feet CHAP. of the monarch. What though public... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 604 Seiten
...civil usurpation ; iniquitous taxes are supported by arbitrary punishments ; and all the privileges of the nation, transmitted through so many ages, secured...laws, and purchased by the blood of so many heroes and patriots, now He prostrate at the feet of the monarch. What though public peace and national industry... | |
 | William Russell - 1822 - 452 Seiten
...civil usurpation ; iniquitous taxes were supported by arbitrary punishments ; and all the privileges of the nation, transmitted through so many ages, secured by so many laws, 16 Boshvortb, ved. u.— Whiteloeke. 17 State Trials, yoL v. and purchased by the blood of so many... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 780 Seiten
...sufficiently recompensed hy the applauses of the people. Nothing was now heard in every company hut murmurs against the government, and encomiums on him...its usurpations. It was now alleged that tyranny was conlirmed into system ; and that there was no redress except in sullen patience or contented slavery.... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 492 Seiten
...civil usurpation ; iniquitous taxes are supported by arbitrary punishments; and all the privileges of the nation, transmitted through so many ages, secured...laws and purchased by the blood of so many heroes and patriots, now lie prostrate at the feet of the monarch. What though public peace and national industry... | |
 | William Russell - 1837 - 680 Seiten
...civil usurpation ; iniquitous taxes were supported by arbitrary punishments ; and all the privileges of the nation, transmitted through so many ages, secured...laws, and purchased by the blood of so many heroes and patriots, now lay prostrate at the foot of the throne. What though the personal character of the... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 322 Seiten
...subverted . . . slavish principles, they said, concur with illegal practices; . . . ana the privileges of the nation, transmitted through so many ages, secured...laws, and purchased by the blood of so many heroes and patriots, now lie prostrate at the feet of the monarch. What though public peace and national industry... | |
 | William Russell - 1839 - 620 Seiten
...civil usurpation ; iniquitous taxes were supported by arbitrary punishments ; and all the privileges of the nation, transmitted through so many ages, secured...laws, and purchased by the blood of so many heroes and patriots, now lay prostrate at the foot of the throne. What though the personal character of the... | |
 | WILLIAM SMYTH - 1841 - 480 Seiten
...civil usurpations; iniquitous taxes were supported by arbitrary punishments; and all the privileges of the nation, transmitted through so many ages, secured...laws, and purchased by the blood of so many heroes and patriots, now lay prostrate at the feet of the monarch ! What, though public peace and national... | |
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... prostrate at the feet of the monarch. What though public peace and national industry increased the commerce and opulence of the kingdom? This advantage was temporary, and due alone, not to any encouragement given by the crown, but to... 
