The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volumen5Bell & Daldy, 1868 |
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... Peers should be fixed , and the King restrained from any new creation of nobility , unless when an old family should be extinct . To this the Lords would naturally agree ; and the King , who was yet little ac- quainted with his own ...
... Peers should be fixed , and the King restrained from any new creation of nobility , unless when an old family should be extinct . To this the Lords would naturally agree ; and the King , who was yet little ac- quainted with his own ...
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... that the bill which came down from the House of Peers was a confirmation of the charters , without so much as a declaration of any forfeiture Perhaps it might have been true , that some little No. 1 . 237 THE PLEBEIAN .
... that the bill which came down from the House of Peers was a confirmation of the charters , without so much as a declaration of any forfeiture Perhaps it might have been true , that some little No. 1 . 237 THE PLEBEIAN .
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... Peers of Scotland are to be made hereditary , to the exclusion of their electors , and nine more added upon the same foot ; and six more are to be added to the number of English Peers ; and then the Crown is to be restrained from making ...
... Peers of Scotland are to be made hereditary , to the exclusion of their electors , and nine more added upon the same foot ; and six more are to be added to the number of English Peers ; and then the Crown is to be restrained from making ...
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... Peers itself , by preventing such frequent supplies from going into it as the nature of such a body requires ; for want of which , it may in time become corrupt and offensive , like a stagnated pool , which hitherto has been preserved ...
... Peers itself , by preventing such frequent supplies from going into it as the nature of such a body requires ; for want of which , it may in time become corrupt and offensive , like a stagnated pool , which hitherto has been preserved ...
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... Peers , is the danger there will be of changing the Constitution by this means into an Aristocracy ; and this may at any time in such case be effected by the confederacy of two or three great families , which would form such a body ...
... Peers , is the danger there will be of changing the Constitution by this means into an Aristocracy ; and this may at any time in such case be effected by the confederacy of two or three great families , which would form such a body ...
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