The Political State of Great Britain, Volumi 59-60

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J. Baker and T. Warner, 1740
 

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Pagina 105 - Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Pagina 192 - And whereas another act was passed in the sixteenth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled, " An act to indemnify persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments within the time limited by law, and for allowing further time for that purpose...
Pagina 134 - I defire it may be confider'd, that 'tis in this Cafe, as when a Tenant fends up any Body to treat for him : Would any of your Lordfhips think it a Difrefpeft ; nay, would the King himfelf think it any, if the...
Pagina 133 - Captain has only deferv'd to be advanced for expofing himfelf in Parliament, I think the Nation would have no great Lofs in the King's letting alone fuch a Preferment. « But, my Lords, there is another Sort of Incapacity yet worfe than this, I mean that of...
Pagina 133 - Sort of Supply, give an Account from him how much is needful towards the Paying fuch an Army, or fuch a Fleet -, and then immediately give, by his ready Vote, what he had before afk'd by his Mailer's Order.
Pagina 405 - I N. take thee M. to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance: and thereto I give thee my faith.
Pagina 134 - Parliament, fo he cannot, he ought not to fufpecl a Nation, fo entirely I was going to fay, fo fondly) devoted to him. .• My Lords, no Man is readier than myfelf...
Pagina 228 - They increased every minute by new Negroes coming to them, so that they were above Sixty, some say a hundred, on which they halted in a field, and set to dancing, Singing and beating Drums, to draw more Negroes to them...
Pagina 135 - Experience ; and tho* no wife Man but would bear a great deal rather than make a Buftle ; yet really the People are otherwife, and at any Time change a prefent...
Pagina 92 - Yesterday morning the inhabitants of the west prospect of the bridge were presented with a very odd scene ; for, on the opening of their windows there appeared underneath, on the river, a parcel of booths, shops, and huts, of different forms, and without any inhabitants, which, it seems, by the swell of the waters, and the ice separating, had been brought down from above.

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