The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, EsqReprinted, and sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1732 - 448 strán (strany) |
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Strana 28
... security can be had against standing armies of mercenaries , backed by the corruption of both nations , the tendency of the way of living , the genius of the age , and the example of the world . HAVING fhewn the difference between the ...
... security can be had against standing armies of mercenaries , backed by the corruption of both nations , the tendency of the way of living , the genius of the age , and the example of the world . HAVING fhewn the difference between the ...
Strana 39
... security , which is the greatest of all others , is loft ; and not only fo , but the fword is put into the hand of the king by his power over the militia . All this is not enough ; but we must have in both kingdoms standing armies of ...
... security , which is the greatest of all others , is loft ; and not only fo , but the fword is put into the hand of the king by his power over the militia . All this is not enough ; but we must have in both kingdoms standing armies of ...
Strana 67
... secure poffeffion of them , and whose mer- chants live in as great splendor as the no- bility of other nations : that Scotland which has a gentry born to excel in arts and arms : F 2 that that England which has a commonalty , not only ...
... secure poffeffion of them , and whose mer- chants live in as great splendor as the no- bility of other nations : that Scotland which has a gentry born to excel in arts and arms : F 2 that that England which has a commonalty , not only ...
Strana 97
... security . · THEREFORE I am of opinion , that fince we can expect no advantages from our neighbours or allies , we do ourselves right , by refufing to maintain any standing forces for their behoof , because we need none for our own ...
... security . · THEREFORE I am of opinion , that fince we can expect no advantages from our neighbours or allies , we do ourselves right , by refufing to maintain any standing forces for their behoof , because we need none for our own ...
Strana 253
... Dover treaty ; for then they were partitioned , but now they are risen to the quality of partitioners . And we are in abfolute security that nothing can be be ftipulated to our prejudice , fince he who then State of the Nation . 253.
... Dover treaty ; for then they were partitioned , but now they are risen to the quality of partitioners . And we are in abfolute security that nothing can be be ftipulated to our prejudice , fince he who then State of the Nation . 253.
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Strana 144 - THERE are at this day in Scotland (besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for by the church-boxes, with others who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door.
Strana 145 - No magistrate could ever discover, or be informed, which way one in a hundred of these wretches died, or that ever they were baptized. Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.
Strana 372 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Strana 271 - ... by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs : by which means they have had so visible an influence upon our whole administration, that we have from that time appeared to the rest of the world more like a conquered province than a free independent people.
Strana 386 - Scots nation had many great and profitable places at court, to the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of the master.
Strana 270 - When our Kings succeeded to the crown of England, the ministers of that nation took a short way to ruin us, by concurring with their inclinations to extend the prerogative in Scotland; and the great places and pensions conferred upon Scotsmen by that court, made them to be willing instruments in the work.
Strana 57 - Speeches exhorting to military and virtuous actions should be often composed, and pronounced publicly by such of the youth as were, by education and natural talents, qualified for it.
Strana 288 - ... occafions, when paft, for ever irretrievable, to enter into the right path, and take hold of the golden opportunity, which makes the moft arduous things eafy, and without which the moft inconfiderable may put a ft op to all our affairs ? We have this day an opportunity in our hands which if we manage to the advantage of...
Strana 330 - Jhall fucceed to the crown of this realm that is likewife fuccejjbr to the crown of England, but under the limitations following, which, together with the oath of coronation and claim of right, they Jhall fwear to obferve. That all places and offices, both civil and military, and all pen/ions formerly conferred by our kings, Jhall ever after be given by parliament.
Strana 271 - ... From that time this nation began to give away their privileges one after the other, though they then stood more in need of having them enlarged. And as the collections of our laws, before the union of the crowns, are full of acts to secure our liberty, those laws that have been made since that time are directed chiefly to extend the prerogative.