Select Letters Taken from Fog's Weekly Journal ...Printed; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1732 The journal from which these essays were selected was written in opposition to the government. It commenced in 1728 and was continued for nearly eight years. A great part was written by Charles Molloy. |
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Seite 165 - No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly to a kingdom or estate a just and honourable war is the true exercise. A civil war indeed is like the heat of a fever ; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health ; for in a slothful peace both courages will effeminate and manners corrupt.
Seite 168 - Indies, should be re-established on the foot of the Treaties and Conventions antecedent to the year 1725, and particularly that the commerce of the English nation in America should be...
Seite 20 - Gift, Grant, or Promife fb given or made fince the faid Time to any other Member of this Houfe, but what I have alfb inferted in the faid Writing; nor have I given my...
Seite 20 - Member of this Houfe ; but what I have alfb inferted in the faid Writing ; nor have I given my Vote in Parliament for any Reward or Promife 4 whatfoever, fb help me God.
Seite 210 - Pans in three, or fix Parts in nine of the foreign Trade of England. We may give one Ninth to the Ports on the South Coafts of this Ifland, which South Coaft is oppofite to the North Coait of France, the Sea between which is what we call the Chanel.
Seite 168 - ... re-established on the foot of the treaties and conventions antecedent to the year 1725; however, for the greater exactness, it is further declared by the present article, between their Britannic and Catholic Majesties, which shall have the same force, and be under the same guaranty as the treaty signed this day, that under that general denomination are comprehended the Treaties of Peace and of Commerce concluded at Utrecht, the 13th of July, and 9th of December, in the year 1713, in which are...
Seite 212 - Bre/i, they muft either run into the German Ocean, and wait another Opportunity of coming down again, with the Hazard of meeting all our Men of War; or elfe fail North about Great Britain, which is at leafl 550 Leagues more than they need have failed, with the Port of Dunkirk to fly to.
Seite 20 - Promife fb given or made fince the faid Time to any other Member of this Houfe, but what I have alfb inferted in the faid Writing; nor have I given my Vote in Parliament for any Reward or Promife whatsoever. So help me God, &c.
Seite 29 - Prince, happens to be weak or wicked; but commonwealths, or mixed conftitutions are fafe, till the chief part of the leading men are debauched in principles. However, monarchy has this advantage, that the...
Seite 211 - Leagues broad, and of courfe, there ' is at that End a greater Chance of efcaping the * Enemy. If Ships from Breft are appointed to * way-lay our Ships in the Channel, they...