Sir John Eliot, Τόμος 2

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Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864
 

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Σελίδα 302 - Who rules the kingdom ? The king. Who rules the king ? The duke. Who rules the duke? The devil.
Σελίδα 219 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Σελίδα 310 - I command you all that are here to take notice of what I have spoken at this time, to be the true intent and meaning of what I granted you in your Petition ; but especially, you my Lords the Judges, for to you only under me belongs the interpretation of...
Σελίδα 223 - I confess many a sad thought hath affrighted me, and that not only in respect of our dangers from abroad (which yet I know are great, as they have been often...
Σελίδα 190 - I know not what it is. All our petition is for the laws of England; and this power seems to be another distinct power from the power of the law. I know how to add ' sovereign' to the king's person, but not to his power; and we cannot leave to him a ' sovereign power,' for we never were possessed of it.
Σελίδα 698 - O ! infinite mercy of our Master, dear friend, how it abounds to us, that are unworthy of his service ! How broken ! how imperfect ! how perverse and crooked are our ways in obedience to him ! How exactly straight is the line of his providence...
Σελίδα 179 - ... commissions, for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Σελίδα 132 - WF an unfortunate comaunder in that untoward service", and which ends by hoping that the parliament "for their parts will send him to hell without any more adoe"; in return for such evil service. * "I observe," he said, "in the close of Mr. Secretary's relation, mention made of another in addition to his majesty ; and that which hath been formerly a matter of complaint I find here still, — a mixture with his majesty, not only in business, but in name.
Σελίδα 72 - I told them, if they will take my estate, let them ; I would give it up — lend I would not. When I was before the lords of the council, they laid to my charge my unwillingness to serve ike king.
Σελίδα 223 - ... of our generals abroad; the ignorance or corruption of our ministers at home; the impoverishing of the sovereign; the oppression and depression of the subject; the exhausting of our treasures; the waste of our provisions; consumption of our ships; destruction of our men; — these make the advantage to our enemies, not the reputation of their arms; and if in these there be not reformation, we need no foes abroad; time itself will ruin us.

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