 As to parliaments, I adored the wisdom of that Gothic institution which made them annual, and I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation until that ancient law were restored among us. For who sees not that, while such assemblies...  Swiftiana ... - Page 46edited by - 1804Full view - About this book
 | John Cartwright - Great Britain - 1826 - 456 pages
...1721, " I adored the wisdom of that gothic institution which made them annual : and I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation until that antient law were restored among us. For who sees not, that while such assemblies are permitted to have... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1836 - 270 pages
...I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation until that ancient law was restored among us : for who sees not that, while such...there grows up a commerce of corruption between the ministers and the deputies, wherein they both find their accounts, to the manifest danger of liberty?—which... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1836 - 274 pages
...parliament, I adored the wisdom of that Gothic institution which made them ANNUAL ;* and I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation until that ancient law was restored among us : for who sees not that, while such assemblies are permitted to have a longer... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...and I was confident our liberty could never be placed on a firm foundation until that ancient law was restored among us. For, who sees not that while such...ministry and the deputies, wherein they both find their accounts, to the manifest danger of liberty, which traffic would neither answer the design nor... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1839 - 344 pages
...Parliaments, I adored the wisdom of that Gothic institution, which makes them annual : and I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation...sees not, that while such assemblies are permitted to Itave a longer duration, there grows up a commerce of corruption between the Ministry and the Deputies,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 pages
...parliaments 8, I adored the wisdom of that Gothic institution which made them annual : and I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation...ministry and the deputies, wherein they both find their s When King William hesitated about passing the Bill for triennial parliaments, (for annual seem... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 pages
...Parliament, I adored the wisdom of that Gothic institution which made them ANNUAL ; * and I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation...there grows up a commerce of corruption between the ministers and the deputies, wherein they both find their accounts, to the manifest danger of liberty... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1861 - 1236 pages
...parliaments, I adored the wisdom of that Gothic institution which made them annual, and I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation...have a longer duration, there grows up a commerce jnVlof corruption between the ministry and the deputies, wherein they iordboth find their accounts,... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - Democracy - 1866 - 446 pages
...For who sees not that while such assemblies are per* mitted to have a longer duration (than annual), there grows up a commerce of corruption between the ministry and the deputies."—Swift, AD 1720. " The (septennial) Act 1 Geo. I, c. 38, poisoned the Constitution ."—Bentham.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 540 pages
...parliaments, I adored the wisdom of that Gothic institution which made them annual : and I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation until that ancient law were restored among us.3 For who sees not that while such assemblies are permitted to have a longer duration, there grows... | |
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