 | Nicholas Tindal - Great Britain - 1761 - 552 pages
...kingdom, and altered it from a legal and limited monarchy to an arbitrary defpotic power ; and had governed the fame to the fubverfion of the proteftant...inverting all the ends of government ; whereby he had forefaulted the crown, and the throne was become vacant.' Immediately after this the eftates ordered,... | |
 | William Guthrie - Scotland - 1768 - 512 pages
...kingdom, and altered it from a legal and limited monarchy to an arbitrary defpotic power ; and had governed the fame to the fubverfion of the proteftant...inverting all the ends of government, whereby he had forfeited the RIGHT of the crown, and the throne was become vacant." It is remarkable that this vote... | |
 | John Belfour - Scotland - 1770 - 338 pages
...kingdom, and altered it from a legal and limited monarchy to' an arbitrary defpotic power ;' and had governed the fame to the fubverfion of the proteftant...the laws and liberties 'of the nation, inverting all ends of government, whereby h« had forfeited the right of the crown, and the throne was become vacant."... | |
 | John Skinner - Scotland - 1788 - 714 pages
...kingdom, and altered it from a legal limited monarchy, to an arbitrary defpotick power, and hath exercifed the fame, to the fubverfion of the Proteftant religion, and violation of the laws and liberties of the kingdom, and inverting all the ends of government ; whereby he hzthforfaulted the right to the Crown,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1793 - 686 pages
...defpotic power; and had governed " the fame to the fubverfion of the proteftant religion and viola" tion of the laws and liberties of the nation, inverting all the " ends of government, whereby he had fertfaulttd the crown, " and the throne was become vacant." Tjidal, 71 Fol. Coat, ef Rapin. determination;... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1800 - 546 pages
...to an arbitrary defpotick power, and had " governed the fame to the fubverfion of the Proteft" ant religion, and violation of the laws and liberties...inverting all the ends of government ; " whereby he had forfeited the right of the crown, " and the throne was become vacant." When this vote was reported,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 674 pages
...defpotir power ; and had governed " the fame to the fubvprlion of the prou-Rant religion and viola" tion of the laws and liberties of the nation, inverting all the " ends of government, whereby- lie had fnrefaulled the crown, " and the throne was become vacant." Tyndal, 71. Fal. Cont, cf Rufin,... | |
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1802 - 644 pages
...kingdom, and altered it from a legal and limited monarchy to an arbitrary defpotic power ; and had governed the fame to the fubverfion of the proteftant religion, and violation of the Jaws and liberties of the nation, inverting all the ends of government; whereby he had FORFAULTED the'... | |
 | John Millar - Constitutional history - 1803 - 520 pages
...kingdom, and altered it from a legal " and limited monarchy, to an arbitrary " defpotic power ; and had governed the " fame to the fubverfion of the proteftant...inverting all the ends •* of government; whereby he had forfeited, " the crown, and the throne was become . « vacant.*" But though the language employed by... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1804 - 544 pages
...to an arbitrary deCpotick power, and had " governed the fame to the fubverfion of the Proteft" ant religion, and violation of the laws and liberties...the right of the crown, " and the throne was become vacant." When this vote was reported, the Bifhop of Edinburgh argued ftrenuoufly againft it, as containing... | |
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... invaded the fundamental constitution of this kingdom, and altered it from a legal and limited monarchy to an arbitrary, despotic power, and had governed the same to the subversion of the Protestant religion, and violation of the laws and liberties... 
