★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
I do not look upon the Duke or I do not wish the be but too likely to be imitated –
Duke too be looked upon as a monster such as does not
exist in nature. What I do wish him to be looked
upon as a man – a weak man – a man of very ordinary
mould – and his conduct such as if it remain
unnoticed will he
and which accordingly in proportion as it is likely to
be imitated if suffered and known to be suffered to
pass uncensored – calls upon Parliament for censure.
It is a point to be tried between Parliament and the legislative power
and the Executive Ministers
Administration, whether after a sanction given to a
measure of the Executive power by the legislature in and by
an imperative Act – the Ministers Executive continues master
of the measure – just as if it had not been brought by
them before Parliament – or as if the sanction instead
of being imperative were simply authoritative – The
affirmative has been maintained to me – maintained
to me in the present instance to my face – with marks
of contempt and scorn for any that ignorance that could suppose
it possible to maintain the negative: and this if I
mistake not – but should indeed think I be to find myself
to be mistaken and to have it in my power to
acknowledge my mistake – by persons now in office as
well as by those whose authority is at an end no more I wish I
.... could add their influence – is no more. and surely if it possible for the authority of Parliament
tha to be continued in the favour of the individual
who urges it and clings to it – continued by expression scorn
put upon the notion that men in office are to be considered
in the individual enclosure in question as bound by the law of
Parliament – it has been continued in a
Identifier: | JB/121/398/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121. |
|||
---|---|---|---|
121 |
Panopticon |
||
398 |
|||
001 |
|||
Text sheet |
1 |
||
Recto"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property. |
|||
C. Abbit Lees |
|||
1799 |
|||
001 |
|||