The Scots Magazine, Band 16

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Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1754

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Seite 520 - Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new-model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security?
Seite 198 - We have thought fit, by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this Our Royal Proclamation...
Seite 520 - For the people, having reserved to themselves the choice of their representatives, as the fence to their properties, could do it for no other end but that they might always be freely chosen, and, so chosen, freely act and advise as the necessity of the commonwealth and the public good should upon examination and mature debate be judged to require.
Seite 198 - We do for that end publish this Our royal proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the said Parliament accordingly ; and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and burghs, of the House of...
Seite 198 - April next; and We, being desirous and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet Our people, and to have their advice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all Our loving subjects Our...
Seite 518 - ... to excel ; every writer will be tempted to negligence, in proportion as he despises the judgment of those who are to determine his merit ; and as it is no man's interest to write that which the public is not disposed to read, the productions of the press will always be accommodated to popular taste, and in proportion as the world is inclined to be ignorant, little will be taught them. Thus the Greek and Roman architecture are discarded for the novelties of...
Seite 417 - I can recollect, that .bear any resemblance to the Greek or Roman orator ; for in England we have been particularly unfortunate in our attempts to be eloquent, whether in parliament, in the' pulpit, or at the bar. If it be urged, that...
Seite 381 - In the mean time, it is by affliction chiefly that the heart of man is purified, and that the thoughts are fixed upon a better state. Prosperity, allayed and imperfect as it is, has power to intoxicate the imagination, to fix the mind upon the present scene, to produce confidence and elation, and to make him who enjoys affluence and honours forget the hand by which they were bestowed. It is seldom that...

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