Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 104, no. 1, 1960)American Philosophical Society |
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Page 43 - The Great and Popular Objection against the Repeal of the Penal Laws and Tests Briefly stated and Considered (London, 1689).
Page 44 - Catholics we might reasonably object against (and no doubt but such there are), yet he has disclaimed and reprehended those ill things by his declared opinion against persecution, by the ease in which he actually indulges all Dissenters, and by the confirmation he offers in Parliament for the security of the Protestant religion and liberty of conscience.. And in his...
Page 38 - He said to me, the king was much to be pitied, who was hurried into all this effusion of blood by Jefleries's impetuous and cruel temper. But, if his own inclinations had not been biassed that way, and if his priests had not thought it the interest of their party to let that butcher loose, by...
Page 37 - ... 352. It is certain, princes ought to have great allowances made them for faults in government, since they see by other people's eyes, and hear by their ears : but ministers of state, their immediate confidants and instruments, have much to answer for, if, to gratify private passions, they misguide the prince to do public injury.
Page 44 - And in his honor, as well as in my own defence, I am obliged in conscience to say, that he has ever declared to me it was his opinion ; and on all occasions, when Duke, he never refused me the repeated proofs of it, as often as I had any poor sufferers for conscience sake to solicit his help for.
Page 49 - I did take the freedom to remember King James of his frequent assurances in favour of liberty of conscience, and with much zeal used my small interest with him, to gain that point upon his ministers, that he told me were against it; that so the doors of our prisons and...
Page 42 - By this grace he has relieved his distressed subjects from their cruel sufferings, and raised to himself a new and lasting empire, by adding their affections to their duty : and we pray God to continue the king in this noble resolution ; for he is now upon a principle that has good-nature, Christianity, and the good of civil society on its side ; a security to him beyond the little arts of government.
Page 31 - It is obvious that the King regards Arab Unity as synonymous with his own Kingship, and (for reasons given above) as a vain phrase unless so regarded. He treats our proclamations and exhortations about it as good intentions but no more, and has no faith in their effect until we support the embodiment of the idea in one single personality — himself.
Page 111 - Pathology and from the National Heart Institute of the US Public Health Service. The...
Page 106 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.