Dissertations on parties, in several letters to Caleb D'Anvers, EsqA. Donaldson, and sold at his shops in London and Edinburgh., 1768 |
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Side 258 - And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight ; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Side 9 - Should a minister govern, in various instances of domestic and foreign management, ignorantly, weakly, or even wickedly, and yet pay this reverence and bear this regard to the constitution, he would deserve certainly much better quarter, and would meet with it too from every man of sense and...
Side 97 - December 1733). is opposed to York will have a good party; and all Scotland, which is every day like to be in arms, doth certainly favour him, and may probably be of as much importance in the troubles that are now likely to fall upon us, as they were in the beginning of the last. Others are only upon negatives', &c.
Side 110 - If King Charles had found the nation plunged in corruption ; the people choosing their representatives for money, without any other regard ; and these representatives of the people, as well as the nobility, reduced by luxury to beg the unhallowed alms of a court, or to receive, like miserable hirelings, the wages of iniquity from a minister ; if he had found the nation, I say...
Side 200 - ... in Britain, that they are inceflant in their endeavours to puzzle the plaineft thing in the world, and to refine and diftinguifh away the life and ftrength of our conftitution, in favour of the little, prefent, momentary turns, which they are retained to ferve. What now would be the confequence, if all thefe endeavours mould fucceed ? I am perfuaded...
Side 12 - No. 139. If all the ends of the Revolution are already obtained, it is not only impertinent to argue for obtaining any of them, but factious desig7is might be imputed, and the name of incendiary be applied with some colour, perhaps, to any one who should persist in pressing this point.
Side 270 - In short, nothing can destroy the constitution of Britain, but the people of Britain; and whenever the people of Britain become so degenerate and base, as to be induced by corruption, for they are no longer in danger of being awed by prerogative, to choose persons to represent them in parliament, whom they have found by experience to be under an influence, arising from private interest, dependents on a court, and the creatures...
Side 54 - ... its old good manners, its old good humour, and its old good nature...
Side 198 - ... the British constitution is the tree that bears this fruit, and will continue to bear it, as long as we are careful to fence it in, and trench it round, against the beasts of the field, and the insects of the earth.