Dialogue IV. On the age of Q. Elizabeth (cont.) Dialogues V, VI. On the constitution of the English government; Sir J. Maynard, Mr. Somers, Bp. Burnet

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T. Cadell, 1788
 

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Seite 307 - ... blafphemy in a creature to difpute what the deity may do, " fo it is prefumption and fedition in a fubjecl to difpute " what a king may do in the height of his power...
Seite 17 - Truly it is a rare thing with us now, to hear of a courtier which hath but his own language.
Seite 303 - Where Mr. Holborne," says justice Berkley, " supposed a fundamental policy in the creation of the frame of this kingdom, that in case the monarch of England should be inclined to exact from his subjects at his pleasure, he should be restrained, for that he could have nothing from them, but upon a common consent in parliament ; he is utterly mistaken herein.
Seite 39 - Countries) are far under the fame : and if the late queen would have believed her men of war, as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces, and made their kings kings of figs and oranges, as in old times.
Seite 21 - Anno 1618, passed by those fluent orators that domineered in the pulpits of Athens and Rome, and insisted to read upon an oration of King James, which he analysed...
Seite 67 - I know the truth of that, Madam," said I ; " you need not tell it me. Your Majesty thinks, if you were married, you would be but queen of England ; and now you are both king and queen. I know your spirit cannot endure a commander.
Seite 57 - Harrison, after enumerating the queen's palaces, adds, "But what shall I need to take upon me to repeat all, and tell what houses the queen's majesty hath? Sith all is hers; and when it pleaseth her in the summer season to recreate herself abroad, and view the estate of the country, and hear the complaints of her poor commons injured by her unjust officers or...
Seite 306 - Rome was thrown off, the new church, erected in oppofition to it, fhould flill continue to be governed by the laws of the old. The pretence was, that this was only by way of interim, till a body of ecclefiaftical laws could be formed; and, to cover this pretence the better, fome fleps were, in fact, taken towards the execution of fuch a defign.
Seite 307 - Canon laws proceeded from, and had perpetual reference to, an absolute spiritual monarch, and were formed upon the genius, and did acknowledge the authority of, the civil laws, — the issue of civil despotism, — I say, whoever considers this, will be inclined to think that the Crown contrived this interim from the use the Canon law was of to the extension of the prerogative. However, It is certain, that the succeeding monarchs, Elizabeth, James, and Charles...
Seite 307 - I have said a good king will frame all his actions to be according to the law, yet is he not bound thereto but of his good- will, and for good example-giving to his subjects.

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