Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly miscellany) [afterw.] The Political review and monthly mirror of the times, Volume 9Benjamin Flower 1811 |
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... which should combine the strength of the different leaders of opposition . That there is a wide difference between those who are usually termed the leaders , we both hope and believe , unless some of the noble lords and right hon .
... which should combine the strength of the different leaders of opposition . That there is a wide difference between those who are usually termed the leaders , we both hope and believe , unless some of the noble lords and right hon .
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Benjamin Flower. Had Lord Holland and Mr. Whitbread been consulted on the for- mation of an administration , that grand measure a REFORM OF PARLIAMENT must have constituted the foundation principle of their plan . The opinions of the hon ...
Benjamin Flower. Had Lord Holland and Mr. Whitbread been consulted on the for- mation of an administration , that grand measure a REFORM OF PARLIAMENT must have constituted the foundation principle of their plan . The opinions of the hon ...
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... he was happy to " find there was little difference between ministers and their oppo- " nents . " - Indeed we believe , and the people in general seem to be of the same opinion , that it is a matter of comparative indifference whether Lord ...
... he was happy to " find there was little difference between ministers and their oppo- " nents . " - Indeed we believe , and the people in general seem to be of the same opinion , that it is a matter of comparative indifference whether Lord ...
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Benjamin Flower. which the people did agree they would be governed . But , let me not be mistaken , for when I say ac- countable to the people , I do ... yet it never was a pure monarchy ; for a pure monarchy is a clear tyranny : but it was a ...
Benjamin Flower. which the people did agree they would be governed . But , let me not be mistaken , for when I say ac- countable to the people , I do ... yet it never was a pure monarchy ; for a pure monarchy is a clear tyranny : but it was a ...
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Benjamin Flower. posed him , and so they afterward did in like manner depose ... have put in use their authority over their kings , to call them to an ... Not- tingham , and from thence were car- ried to fight at Edge - hill against the ...
Benjamin Flower. posed him , and so they afterward did in like manner depose ... have put in use their authority over their kings , to call them to an ... Not- tingham , and from thence were car- ried to fight at Edge - hill against the ...
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Page 16 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them.
Page 212 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 212 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in His Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does He then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen...
Page 145 - To understand political power right and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 16 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 212 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it...
Page 218 - ... up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed, should be disputing, reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity...
Page 212 - Commons ; and from thence derives itself to a gallant bravery and wellgrounded contempt of their enemies, as if there were no small number of as great spirits among us as his was, who when Rome was nigh besieged by Hannibal, being in the city, bought that piece of ground at no cheap rate, whereon Hannibal himself encamped his own regiment.
Page 212 - We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Page 218 - Reformation itself: what does He then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen? I say, as His manner is, first to us, though we mark not the method of His counsels, and are unworthy.