The Political State of Great Britain, Volume 25

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J. Baker and T. Warner, 1723
 

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Page 635 - What could tempt me," he says, " to step thus out of my way ? Was it ambition and a desire of climbing into a higher station in the Church ? There is not a man in my office farther removed from this than I am. Was money my aim ? I always despised it too much...
Page 412 - That it be an instruction to the committee that they have power to alter the law of rating...
Page 583 - Kcynoe deceafed, though not figned or fworn by him, hath been allowed by the Houfe to be read and given in Evidence, in Proof of the particular...
Page 441 - Day, the King came to the Houfe of Peers, with the ufual State and Solemnity, and the Commons being...
Page 533 - January 1673, was meant as a rule for all future times, that if leave fhould be afked by a lord of parliament to anfwer or make a defence to an accufation, in any form, as we conceive, in the Houfe of Commons, it ought to be denied, as deeply intrenching on the privileges of this Houfe.
Page 546 - Lords ought to be very jealous of doing, fince the power of judicature is the greateft diftin* guifhing power the Lords have ; and there will be little reafon to hope, that if bills of this nature are given way to by...
Page 647 - Lordfhip, is very obvious : For if this Way of Proceeding be admitted, it will certainly prove a very dangerous Engine ; no Man's Life, Liberty, or Property will be...
Page 547 - This proceeding by bill does not, in our opinions, only tend to lay afide the judicial power of the Lords, but even the ufe of juries ; which diftinguifhes this nation from all its neighbours, and is of the higheft value...
Page 550 - King came to the Houfe of Peers with the ufual State and Solemnity, and the Commons being fent for up, and attending their Speak,cr, upon prefenting the Bittf* tying * T...
Page 548 - ... from it ; and whatever tends to alter or weaken that great privilege, we think, is an alteration of our...

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