A Complete Collection of the Genuine Papers, Letters, &c. in the Case of John Wilkes, Esq: Late Member for Aylesbury, in the County of Bucks..Chez J.W. imprimeur, rue du Colombier Fauxburgh, St. Germain, à l'hotel de Saxe., 1767 - 272 من الصفحات |
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... say that it is my own declaration before men of truth and honour that I occafionally affifted the < paper called the North Briton . I wifh your Lordship had been more explicit , • and had mentioned the name of any one gentleman before ...
... say that it is my own declaration before men of truth and honour that I occafionally affifted the < paper called the North Briton . I wifh your Lordship had been more explicit , • and had mentioned the name of any one gentleman before ...
الصفحة 45
... say it ) the cause of liberty . Every teftimony of my grati- ' tude is justly due to you , and I take leave of this court with a veneration and respect , which no time can obliterate , nor can the moft grateful heart fuffici- ⚫ently ...
... say it ) the cause of liberty . Every teftimony of my grati- ' tude is justly due to you , and I take leave of this court with a veneration and respect , which no time can obliterate , nor can the moft grateful heart fuffici- ⚫ently ...
الصفحة 92
... say [ his own account ] that Mr. Dun faid he purchased the penknife first nine months . ago , then a shorter space , and at last con- feffed he bought it at Chatham a fortnight before that time , he must explain this mat- ter ?. As he ...
... say [ his own account ] that Mr. Dun faid he purchased the penknife first nine months . ago , then a shorter space , and at last con- feffed he bought it at Chatham a fortnight before that time , he must explain this mat- ter ?. As he ...
الصفحة 105
... say , of the minifter , who , behind and between the C < < · • curtains , ftill governs our island . I have < s never been prefented at court , because an Englishman fhould be prefented by • the English ambassador ; and I will not • afk ...
... say , of the minifter , who , behind and between the C < < · • curtains , ftill governs our island . I have < s never been prefented at court , because an Englishman fhould be prefented by • the English ambassador ; and I will not • afk ...
الصفحة 149
... say that you , my Lord , were not only fuperior , but even unrivalled by him , as well as by all who have ever appeared on the great Stage of the world . As a writer , I take Mr. Murphy rather to excel you , except in points of ...
... say that you , my Lord , were not only fuperior , but even unrivalled by him , as well as by all who have ever appeared on the great Stage of the world . As a writer , I take Mr. Murphy rather to excel you , except in points of ...
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الصفحة 197 - Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
الصفحة 22 - His lordship paid me the highest encomiums on my courage, and said he would declare everywhere that I was the noblest fellow God had ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the Inn to drink a bottle of claret together, which we did with great good humour and much laugh.
الصفحة 159 - I have formerly received, which are ftill frefh in my mind, will, I hope, give a full propriety to this addrefs, and I am fure, a heart glowing with the facred zeal of liberty, muft have a favourable reception from the Duke of Grafton.
الصفحة 20 - Bagshot to settle articles of faith, but points of honour, that indeed I had no fear of dying, but I enjoyed life as much as any man in it, that I was as little...
الصفحة 208 - ... committee, and has been generally canvassed with the utmost freedom, when the minister of the crown has been obnoxious to the nation. The ministers of this free country, conscious of the undoubted privileges of...
الصفحة 22 - We stood about eight yards distant, and agreed not to turn round before we fired, but to continue facing each other. Harris gave the word. Both our fires were in very exact time, but neither took effect.
الصفحة 120 - I lament to see it sunk even to prostitution. What a shame was it to see the security of this country. in point of military force, complimented away, contrary to the opinion of royalty itself, and sacrificed to the prejudices and to the ignorance of a set of people the most unfit, from every consideration, to be consulted on a matter relative to the security of the house of Hanover!
الصفحة 30 - Wilkes, esq. herewith sent you, for being the author and publisher of a most infamous and seditious libel, intitled, The North Briton, No. 45, tending to inflame the minds and alienate the affections of the people from his majesty, and to excite them to traitorous insurrections against the government...
الصفحة 16 - I was too well bred to have given his lordship and colonel Berkeley the trouble of coming to Bagshot. I observed, that I was a private English gentleman, perfectly free and independent, which I held to be a character of the highest dignity, that I obeyed with pleasure a gracious sovereign, but would never...
الصفحة 31 - Stratton conftable of his majefty's Tower of London, or to the lieutenant of the faid Tower or his deputy.