History of England, Volumen71763 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 365 - I can live, although another who has no right be put to live with me; nay, I can live although I pay excises and impositions more than I do; but to have my liberty, which is the soul of my life, taken from me by power; and to...
Página 370 - They have rent from us the light of our eyes ; enforced companies of guests worse than the ordinances of France ; vitiated our wives and daughters before our faces ; brought the crown to greater want than ever it was, by anticipating the revenue ; and can the shepherd be thus smitten and the flock not be scattered...
Página 441 - Let no man," he said, in conclusion, after proposing a committee for grievances, "judge this way a break-neck of parliaments : but a way of honour to the king, nay of profit ; for besides the supply which we shall readily give him, suitable to his occasions, we give him our hearts. Our hearts, Mr. Speaker, a gift that God calls for, and fit for a king ! " 1 There may have been more passion than logic in these speeches, but they had their effect.
Página 365 - ... remedy by law, and to be so adjudged— O improvident ancestors ! O unwise forefathers ! To be so curious in providing for the quiet possession of our laws and the liberties of parliament, and to neglect our persons and bodies, and to let them lie in prison, and that during pleasure — remediless ! If this be law, why do we talk of liberties?
Página 160 - ... see them look, not like our nation, with store of flesh on their backs, but like so many ghosts, and not men, being nothing but skin and bones, with some thin cover to their nakedness, and wearing only wooden shoes on their feet, so that they cannot eat meat, or wear good clothes, but they must pay and be taxed unto the king for it. This is a misery beyond expression, and that which yet we are free from...
Página 408 - That the writ of habeas corpus may not be denied, but ought to be granted to every man that is committed or detained in prison, or otherwise restrained, though it be by the command of the king, the privy council, or any other, he praying the same.
Página 408 - Corpus granted for the said party, that then he ought to be delivered or bailed." — 4thly, "That the ancient and undoubted right of every freeman is, that he hath a full and absolute property in his goods and estate, and that no tax, tallage, loan, benevolence, or other like charge, ought to be commanded or levied by the King• or his ministers, without common assent of parliament.
Página 256 - That these ships were lent to the French King at first without the Duke's privity ; that, when he knew it, he did that which belonged to an Admiral of England, and a true Englishman...
Página 365 - If this be law, why do we talk of liberties ? why trouble ourselves with disputes about a constitution, franchises, property of goods, and the like ? What may any man call his own, if not the liberty of his person ?. " I am weary of treading these ways...
Página 156 - Your lordships have an idea of the man : what he is in himself, what in his affections ; you have seen his power, and some, I fear, have felt it. You have known his practice, and have heard the effects.