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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - Page 68
by Samuel Johnson - 1781
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...particularly by the introduction of twelve new peers at once, to produce a majority of Tories in the last reign ; an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly...compared with that contempt of national right, with which some time afterwards, by the instigation of Whiggism, the commons, chosen by the people for three years,...
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 9

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 540 pages
...emphaGs, by faying, " That the fudden introduction of twelve new Peers at once by Queen Anne, was an a& of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal ;...national right, with which fome time afterwards, by the intligation of Wbtggifm, the Commons, choicu by the People for three years, chofe tbemfelves forfeven."...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Verse and Prose, Volume 9

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 538 pages
...«mphafis, by faying, " That the fudden introduction of twelve new Peers at once by Qu^een Anne, was an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly...compared with that contempt of national right, with which forre time after. wards, by the inlligation of Whiggifm, the Commons, chofen bj the People for three...
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the lives of the most eminent english poets with critical observations on ...

samuel johnson, ll.d. - 1806 - 416 pages
...advancements, and particularly by the introdu&ion of twelve new peers at once, to produce a majority pf Tories in the laft reign; an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal, and by no means tp be cprnpared with that contempt of national right wjth which, fpme time afterwards, by the inftigatipn...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 11

Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 478 pages
...emphasis, by saying, " That the sudden introduction of twelve new peers at once by Queen Anne, was an act .of authority violent enough, yet certainly...compared with that contempt of national right, with which some time afterwards, by the instigation of whiggisra, the commons, chosen by the people for three...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 11

Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 478 pages
...emphasis, by saying, " That the sudden introduction of twelve new peers at once by Queen Anne, was an acl of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal,...compared with that contempt of national right, with which some time afterwards, by the instigation of wbiggism, the commons, chosen by the peopl* for three years,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Dryden, Smith, Duke ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 pages
...particularly by the introduction of twelve new peers at once, to produce a majority of Tories in the last reign ; an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly...compared with that contempt of national right with which, some time afterwards, by the instigation of Whiggism, the commons, chosen by the people for three years,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 9

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...particularly by the introduction of twelve new peers at once, to produce a majority of Tories in the last reign ; an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly...compared with that contempt of national right with which, some time afterwards, by the instigation of Whiggism, the commons, chosen by the people for three years,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 9

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 pages
...particularly by the introduction of twelve new peers at once, to produce a majority of Tories in the last reign ; an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly...and by no means to be compared with that contempt ot national right with which, some time afterwards, by the instigation of Whiggism, the commons, chosen...
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The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year ...

William Cobbett - 1811 - 678 pages
...particularly by the introduction of twelve new peers at once, to produce a majority of Tories in the i last reign : an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly...compared with that contempt of national right with which, some time afterwards, by the instigation of Whiggism, the Commons, chosen by the people for three years,...
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