Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer, Under Other Signatures, (now First Collected).Bradford and Inskeep, 1813 - Great Britain |
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... circumstances were to have no weight in directing our conduct and opinions , the mutual intercourse of mankind would be nothing more than a con- tention between positive and equitable right . Society would be a state of war , and law ...
... circumstances were to have no weight in directing our conduct and opinions , the mutual intercourse of mankind would be nothing more than a con- tention between positive and equitable right . Society would be a state of war , and law ...
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... circumstances , and that , in the most prosperous state of his fortune , he was always the very man he is at present . But was there no other person of rank and consequence in the city , whom government could confide in , but a ...
... circumstances , and that , in the most prosperous state of his fortune , he was always the very man he is at present . But was there no other person of rank and consequence in the city , whom government could confide in , but a ...
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... circumstance I ought to tell you : This gentleman was foreman of the grand jury . ” Mr. Kelly , in the address prefixed to his play , which you and other ad- vocates for the freedom of the press so basely drove from the theatre , after ...
... circumstance I ought to tell you : This gentleman was foreman of the grand jury . ” Mr. Kelly , in the address prefixed to his play , which you and other ad- vocates for the freedom of the press so basely drove from the theatre , after ...
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... circumstances , ( though not quite so unfortunately for his Majesty ) is in equal want of timber . The world knows , in what a hopeful condition you delivered the navy to your successor , and in what a condition we found it in the ...
... circumstances , ( though not quite so unfortunately for his Majesty ) is in equal want of timber . The world knows , in what a hopeful condition you delivered the navy to your successor , and in what a condition we found it in the ...
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... circumstances , under no provocations of the most flagrant abuse , or the most urgent necessity ? Does it mean to say , that all future parliaments shall to eternity be barred from interfering , though impelled to it by the clearest ...
... circumstances , under no provocations of the most flagrant abuse , or the most urgent necessity ? Does it mean to say , that all future parliaments shall to eternity be barred from interfering , though impelled to it by the clearest ...
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abuse administration affirm answer appear assertion authority bail bailable best of princes cause character circumstances committed conduct constitution contempt court crown dare declared defend doctrine Duke of Grafton Earl EDIT election endeavour England fact favour friends gentleman give grace Hillsborough honour Horne House of Commons illegal insult judge JUNIUS jury justice King King's Bench kingdom legislature liberty Lord Barrington Lord Boutetort Lord Bute Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord Mansfield Lord North Lord Rockingham lordship Majesty Majesty's mean measures ment Middlesex minister ministry nation nature never noble offence opinion parliament party person political Port Egmont present principles PRINTER privilege proclamation PUBLIC ADVERTISER question reason respect royal secretary secretary at war shew Sir James Lowther Sir Jeffery Amherst sovereign spirit statute supposed thing thought tion truth warrant whole Wilkes Wilkes's
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Page 14 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original Contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental Laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the Throne is thereby become vacant.
Page 13 - War, was and is incapable of being elected ' a member to serve in this present Parliament.
Page 134 - Delivery, either by the Prisoner or any one in his Behalf, to set at Liberty the Prisoner upon Bail...
Page 148 - Considering the situation and abilities of Lord Mansfield, I do not scruple to affirm, with the most solemn appeal to God for my sincerity, that, in my judgment, he is the very worst and most dangerous man in the kingdom. Thus far I have done my duty in endeavouring to bring him to punishment. But mine is an inferior, ministerial office in the temple of justice. — I have bound the victim, and dragged him to the altar.
Page 138 - extends only to the case of commitments for such criminal charge, as can produce no inconvenience to public justice by a temporary enlargement of the prisoner*.
Page 50 - Mellefont,) is a gull, and made a fool, and cheated. Is every man a gull and a fool that is deceived ? At that rate I am afraid the two classes of men will be reduced to one, and the knaves themselves be at a loss to justify their title : but if an open-hearted honest man, who has an entire confidence in one whom he takes to be his friend...
Page 56 - ... his pistol upon him, as any other private person; and if their conscience would not permit them to do the like; he advised them not to list themselves in his troop, or under his command"; which was generally looked upon as imprudent and malicious, and might, by the professions the parliament then made, have proved dangerous to him; yet served his turn, and severed from others, and united among themselves, all the furious and incensed men against the government, whether ecclesiastical or civil,...
Page 14 - That King James the second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of this kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, hath abdicated the government, &c.
Page 118 - That the general reasonings, which were em' ployed against that power, went directly to our ' whole legislative right, and that one part of it ' could not be yielded to such arguments, without ' a virtual surrender of all the rest.
Page 134 - ... plainly an'd specially expressed in the warrant of commitment) upon payment or tender of the charges of bringing...