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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الصفحة 110
... cou'd I per- fuade myself , that I have acted up to the facred ideas of liberty , which warm the hearts , and inspire the actions of my coun- trymen , I shou'd not , under all the variety of the most unjust and cruel perfecutions , be ...
... cou'd I per- fuade myself , that I have acted up to the facred ideas of liberty , which warm the hearts , and inspire the actions of my coun- trymen , I shou'd not , under all the variety of the most unjust and cruel perfecutions , be ...
الصفحة 115
... cou'd , follow from this publication , even in those parts of the kingdom fo lately fubjected to all the infolence and cruelty of the most despicable of our species , the mean , petty Exciseman . This is the strongest cafe , which can ...
... cou'd , follow from this publication , even in those parts of the kingdom fo lately fubjected to all the infolence and cruelty of the most despicable of our species , the mean , petty Exciseman . This is the strongest cafe , which can ...
الصفحة 117
... cou'd not fail of foon retrieving the affairs of France . Time has already prov'd that the nation judg'd right , and that the PEACE is in almost every part infamous and rotten , contrary to the vain boast in the Minifter's Speech at the ...
... cou'd not fail of foon retrieving the affairs of France . Time has already prov'd that the nation judg'd right , and that the PEACE is in almost every part infamous and rotten , contrary to the vain boast in the Minifter's Speech at the ...
الصفحة 120
... cou'd vote this , feem equally fuperior to any regard for truth , or modeft fear of detection . The author of that paper , fo far from making any perfonal attack on his Sovereign , has even vindicated him personally from fome of the ...
... cou'd vote this , feem equally fuperior to any regard for truth , or modeft fear of detection . The author of that paper , fo far from making any perfonal attack on his Sovereign , has even vindicated him personally from fome of the ...
الصفحة 127
... cou'd not but give fuch a step the very un- conftitutional appearance of influencing or intimidating my judges . When I was brought before the court of Common Pleas , I pleaded the cause of univerfal liberty . It was not the cause of ...
... cou'd not but give fuch a step the very un- conftitutional appearance of influencing or intimidating my judges . When I was brought before the court of Common Pleas , I pleaded the cause of univerfal liberty . It was not the cause 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.