Political FragmentsW. Blackwood, 1830 - 225 sider |
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Side 98 - An Act for the further limitation of the Crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover and the heirs of her body being protestants.
Side 2 - And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes part of potter's clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided ; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. 42. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay ; so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken.
Side 56 - ... by reason of the great interest and profit which hath been made of money at home, the foreign trade of this nation hath of late years been much neglected, and at this time there is a great abatement in the value of the merchandizes, wares and commodities of this kingdom, both at home and in foreign parts, whither they are transported: And whereas for the redress of these mischiefs, and the preventing the increase of the same, it is absolutely necessary to reduce the high rate of interest of six...
Side 151 - Catholics are charged with dividing their allegiance between their temporal sovereign and the Pope. Allegiance relates not to spiritual but to civil duties ; to those temporal tributes and obligations, which the subject owes to the person of his sovereign, and to the authority of the state. By the term spiritual, we here mean that which in its nature tends directly to a supernatural end, or is ordained to produce a supernatural effect. Thus the office of teaching the doctrines of faith, the administration...
Side 128 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any Intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by Law within this Realm: And I do solemnly swear, That I never will exercise any Privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant Religion or Protestant Government in the United Kingdom...
Side 98 - Britain and the dominions thereunto belonging or any part thereof and in every such case the crown and government shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such person being a protestant as should have inherited and enjoyed the same in case such papist or person marrying a papist was naturally dead according to...
Side 98 - Dominions thereunto belonging after Her most Sacred Majesty and in Default of Issue of Her Majesty be remain and continue to the most Excellent Princess Sophia Electoress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover and the Heirs of Her Body being Protestants upon whom the Crown of England is settled...
Side 97 - Act for securing of the Protestant religion and Presbyterian Church government, which by the tenor thereof was appointed to be inserted in any Act ratifying the treaty, and expressly declared to be a fundamental and essential condition of the said treaty or union in all...
Side 54 - Interest hath been for about twenty Years at six per cent, notwithstanding our long civil Wars, and the great complaints of the deadness of Trade, there are more men to be found upon the Exchange now worth Ten thousand Pounds Estates, then were then of One Thousand Pounds.
Side 56 - Whereas, the reducing of interest to ten, and from thence to eight, and thence to six, in the hundred, hath from time to time by experience been found very beneficial to the advancement of trade and improvement of lands...