Life of John WilkesJ. Lane, 1917 - 464 Seiten |
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Seite 332 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof...
Seite 327 - Sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have, is agreeable to you." JOHNSON. "What do you mean, Sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world, as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Seite 91 - Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres, can be brought to give the sanction of his sacred...
Seite 408 - NO FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR DISSEISED, OR OUTLAWED, OR BANISHED, OR ANY WAYS DESTROYED, NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR WILL WE SEND ' UPON HIM, UNLESS BY THE LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Seite 326 - Sir, I am obliged to Mr. Dilly. I will wait upon him — " Boswell: "Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have is agreeable to you.
Seite 105 - The liberty of all peers and gentlemen, and what touches me more sensibly, that of all the middling and inferior class of people, who stand most in need of protection, is in my case this day to be finally decided upon ; — a question of such importance as to determine at once whether English liberty be a reality or a shadow.
Seite 407 - The Spirit of the Age is the very thing that a great man changes.' 'But does he not rather avail himself of it?' inquired Coningsby. 'Parvenus do,' rejoined his companion; 'but not prophets, great legislators, great conquerors. They destroy and they create.
Seite 250 - ... of the cause of this motion. Here are 1143 legal, sworn freeholders, vote a gentleman their member of parliament, against 296 who oppose him ; with this apparent majority, he comes to take his seat so given him by the laws and constitution of his country. But what do the House of Commons...
Seite 217 - If ministers can once usurp the power of declaring who shall not be your representative, the next step is very easy, and will follow speedily. It is that of telling you whom you shall send to Parliament...
Seite 250 - That Mr. Wilkes having been in this session of Parliament expelled the House, was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in the present Parliament ;• and it issued a writ for a fresh election.