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Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism: On the Idea of a Patriot King - Page 96
by Henry Saint-John Bolingbroke - 1775
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The Misscellaneous [sic] Works of the Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord ...

Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1768 - 354 pages
...part which they have referved to themfelves. In fine, the conflitution will be reverenced by him as . as the law of God and of man ; the force of which...the family remains'.- How- much more agreeably to tmith and to common fenfe would thefe authors have .written, if they had maintained, that every prince...
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George II

William Belsham - Great Britain - 1793 - 422 pages
...election. For in hereditary Monarchies, where men are not elected, families are ; and therefore form authors would have it believed, that, when a family...once admitted, and an hereditary right to the Crown recognifed in it, that right cannot be forfeited. How much more agreable to truth and to common fenfe...
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The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ...

Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...majesty's belly, and the princes and the satrapes, prostrate, recognized the embrio monarch.— Some authors would have it believed, that when a family...once admitted, and an hereditary right to the crown once recognised in it, that right cannot be forfeited, nor that throne become vacant as long as any...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, Volume 53

British periodicals - 1822 - 688 pages
...election. For in hereditary monarchies, where men are not elected, families are ; and, therefore, some authors would have it believed, that, when a family...once admitted, and an hereditary right to the crown once recognized in it, that right cannot be forfeited, nor that throne become vacant, as long as any...
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Memoirs of the Kings of Great Britain of the House of Brunswic-Lunenburg

William Belsham - Great Britain - 1802 - 526 pages
...election. For in hereditary monarehies, where men are not elected, families are : and therefore fame auibon would have it believed, that, when a family has been...once admitted, and an hereditary right to the crown recopnifed in it, that right cannot be forfeited. How much more agreeable to truth and to common fenfe...
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The works of ... Henry St. John, lord viscount Bolingbroke. With ..., Volume 4

Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 504 pages
...remote; for in hereditary monarchies, where men are not elected, families are: and, therefore, some authors would have it believed, that when a family...long as any heir of the family remains. How much more agreeable to truth and to common sense would these authors have written, if they had maintained, that...
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The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord ..., Volume 4

Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 500 pages
...remote; for in hereditary monarchies, where men are not elected, families are: and, therefore, some authors would have it believed, that when a family...long as any heir of the family remains. How much more agreeable to truth and to common sense would these authors have written, if they had maintained, that...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...remote ; for in hereditary monarchies, where men are not elected, families, are : and therefore some authors would have it believed, that when a family...remains. How much more agreeably to truth and to common sense would these authors have written, if they had maintained that every prince BISHOP BERKELEY. 283...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...remote ; for in hereditary monarchies, where men are not elected, families are : and therefore some authors would have it believed, that when a family...remains. How much more agreeably to truth and to common sense would these authors have written, if they had maintained that every prince BISHOP BERKELEY. 263...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...remote ; for in hereditary monarchies, where men are not elected, families are : and therefore some authors would have it believed, that when a family...remains. How much more agreeably to truth and to common sense would these authors have written, if they had maintained that every prince who comes to a crown...
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