The Union of England and Scotland: A Study of International HistoryLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 524 páginas |
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Act of Security Acts of Parliament affairs allegiance Argyle Athole Belhaven bill Britain burghs Carstares century Church claim colonial commissioners constitution Correspondence Court Cromartie crown Darien declared demand duke of Hamilton duty earl ecclesiastical Edinburgh England English Parliament Englishmen Estates fact favour Fletcher France French Germain's Glasgow Godolphin Government Highland honour hostile House of Lords influence interest intrigues Jacobite King James kingdom land laws leaders legislation letter Leven liberty Lockhart Papers London lord advocate lord treasurer majesty majesty's majority Marchmont marquess measure Memoirs ment ministers motion nation opponents opposition Parlia Parliament House Parliament of Scotland party patriotism peers political Presbyterian Presbyterian Church government present Pretender privileges Privy Council proposal Protestant queen question reason refused Revolution Roxburgh royal scheme Scotland Scots Scotsmen Scottish Parliament Seafield Session settlement spirit succession successor tion Tory treaty treaty of Union Tweeddale Union vote Whigs William
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Página 503 - A government in every country should be just like a corporation; and, in this country, it is made up of the landed interest, which alone has a right to be represented ; as for the rabble, who have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation of them ? What security for the payment of their taxes ? They may pack up all their property on their backs, and leave the country in the twinkling of an eye, but landed property cannot be removed.
Página 295 - Parliament] as witnesses to the validity of the deed, when they are pleased to contract more ! Good God ! What ? Is this an entire surrender ? My Lord, I find my heart so full of grief and indignation, that I must beg pardon not to finish the last part of my discourse ; but pause that I may drop a tear as the prelude to so sad a story ! This fervent appeal had no effect.
Página 115 - Majesty's reign there be such conditions of government settled and enacted, as may secure the honour and sovereignty of this Crown and Kingdom, the freedom, frequency and power of Parliaments, the religion, liberty and trade of the nation, from English or any foreign influence...
Página 294 - English Navy ! But above all, my Lord, I think I see our ancient mother, Caledonia, like Caesar, sitting in the midst of our senate, ruefully looking round about her, covering herself with her royal garment, attending the fatal blow, and breathing out her last with an et tu quoque mi fill!
Página 464 - The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase, and the English pronunciation ; and in splendid companies Scotch is not much heard, except now and then from an old lady.
Página 444 - Romans, the wisest people upon earth, the Temple of Fame was placed behind the Temple of Virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the Temple of Fame, but through that of Virtue. But if this Bill is passed into a law, one of the most powerful incentives to virtue would be taken away, since there would be no arriving at honour, but through the winding-sheet of an old decrepit lord, or the grave of an extinct noble family...
Página 444 - But if this bill should pass into law, one of the most powerful incentives to virtue would be taken away, since there would be no coming to honour but through the winding-sheet of an old decrepit lord and the grave of an extinct noble family.
Página 441 - ... searching out new expedients pretended for our security, it has produced nothing but daily disappointments, and has brought us and our posterity under a precarious dependence upon foreign councils and interests, and the power of foreign troops. " The late unhappy union which was brought about by the mistaken notions of some, and the ruinous and selfish designs of others, has proved so far from lessening and healing the differences betwixt his majesty's subjects of Scotland and England, that it...
Página 492 - Yet men thus ingenious and inquisitive were content to live in total ignorance of the trades by which human wants are supplied, and to supply them by the grossest means. Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners, the culture of their lands was unskilful, and their domestic life unformed; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux, and their houses filthy as the cottages of Hottentots.