| David Hume - Great Britain - 1775 - 442 pages
...his reign happy and his memory CHAP, mory precious : had the limitations on prerogative been, in LX. his time, quite fixed and certain, his integrity had...regard, as facred, the boundaries of the conftitution. 164$. Unhappily, his fate threw him into a period, when the precedents of many former reigns favoured... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 424 pages
...had rendered his reign happy and LIXhis memory precious : Had the limitations on I6*9' prerogative been , in his time, quite fixed and certain , his...Unhappily, his fate threw him into a period, when the precedents of many former reigns favored ftrongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people... | |
| Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...fenfe had rendered his reign happy, and his memory precious. Had the limitations on the prerogative been in his time quite fixed and certain, his integrity...conftitution. Unhappily his fate threw him into a period, when die precedents of many former reigns favoured ftrongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1796 - 474 pages
...repreientations of Mr. Hume. OUR hiftorian fays of Charles, that ** had the limitations on prerogative been, " in his time, quite fixed and certain, '* his...made him regard, as " facred, the boundaries of the confiitu" tion." But this aflertion will appear totally groundlefs, if we confider, that his adminiftration... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...happy, and his memory precious. Had the limitations on the prerogative been in his time quite iixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard as...Unhappily his fate threw him into a period, when the precedents of many former reigns favoured ft; ongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...fometimes made ufe of: as, "pfadhe done this, he had efcaped ;" " Had the limitations on the prerogative been, in his time, quite fixed and certain, his integrity...had made him regard as facred, the boundaries of the conflifution." The fentence in the common form would have read thus : " If the limitations on the prerogative... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...sometimes made use of: as, " Had he done this, he had escaped ;" "''Had the limitations on the prerogative been, in his time, quite fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard as sacred, the boundaries of the constitution." The sentence in the common form would have read thus :... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 544 pages
...good sense had rendered his reign happy and his memory precious : Had the limitations on prerogative been in his time quite fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard, as sacred, the boundaries of the constitution. Unhappily, his fate threw him into a period when the precedents... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...sometimes made use of: as, " Had he done this, he had escaped ;" " Had the limitations on the prerogative been, in his time, quite fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard, as sacred, the boundaries of the constitution." The sentence in the common form would have read thus :... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 352 pages
...sometimes made use of: as, " Had he done this, he had escaped ;" '< Had the limitations on the prerogative been, in his time, quite fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard sis^sacred, the boundaries of the constitution." The sentence in the common form would have read thus... | |
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