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... forcing the subject to take what money the king pleases ; for then , by the same reason , we might be bound to take pebblestones , or cockleshells , or stamped leather , for current coin , if ever we should happen to live under an ill ...
... forcing the subject to take what money the king pleases ; for then , by the same reason , we might be bound to take pebblestones , or cockleshells , or stamped leather , for current coin , if ever we should happen to live under an ill ...
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... forced to take , in buying , or selling , or other payment , any money made but of lawful metal ; that is , of silver or gold . The law of England gives the king all mines of gold and silver ; but not the mines of other metals : the ...
... forced to take , in buying , or selling , or other payment , any money made but of lawful metal ; that is , of silver or gold . The law of England gives the king all mines of gold and silver ; but not the mines of other metals : the ...
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... forced to tally with their workmen , and give them bits of cards sealed and subscribed with their names . What then ? If a physician prescribe to a patient a dram of physick , shall a rascal apothecary cram him with a pound , and mix it ...
... forced to tally with their workmen , and give them bits of cards sealed and subscribed with their names . What then ? If a physician prescribe to a patient a dram of physick , shall a rascal apothecary cram him with a pound , and mix it ...
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... forced to yield : and therefore , I con- fess , it is my chief endeavour to keep up your spirits and resentments . If I tell you there is a precipice under you , and that if you go forward you will certainly break your necks ; if I ...
... forced to yield : and therefore , I con- fess , it is my chief endeavour to keep up your spirits and resentments . If I tell you there is a precipice under you , and that if you go forward you will certainly break your necks ; if I ...
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... forced to leave off coin- ing before the end of that year , by the great crowds of people continually offering to return his coinage upon him . In 1698 he coined again , forced to give over for the same reason . tirely alters the case ...
... forced to leave off coin- ing before the end of that year , by the great crowds of people continually offering to return his coinage upon him . In 1698 he coined again , forced to give over for the same reason . tirely alters the case ...
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able act of parliament advantage allowed answer beggars bishops church clergy coinage confess consequence copper court crown declare drapier Dublin employments endeavour enemies England English farther farthing favour foreign beggars former friends gentlemen give gold and silver grand jury half honour hope house of commons house of lords hundred pounds Ireland Irish jacobite king king's kingdom of Ireland labour land landlords least letter liberty likewise live lord lordship low church majesty majesty's manufactures ment minister nation never obliged observed occasion offer officers opinion parish party passed patent pence persons poor prerogative present pretender prince printer privy council proposal publick reason receive rents revenue ruin sent shillings shopkeepers suppose tenants thing thought thousand pounds tion told tory town trade true twenty whereof whig whole kingdom wholly William Wood Wood's coin Wood's halfpence
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Page 216 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 289 - There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.
Page 294 - For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of papists, with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principal breeders of the nation as well as our most dangerous enemies...
Page 294 - But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold, and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.
Page 297 - I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, till he hath at least some glimpse of hope that there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them in practice. But as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly despairing of success...
Page 361 - Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand ; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive : for the heart of this people is •waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed ; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 288 - I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is, in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance ; and, therefore, whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these children sound, useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the public, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
Page 289 - ... till they arrive at six years old, except where they are of towardly parts, although I confess they learn the rudiments much earlier, during which time they can, however, be properly looked upon only as probationers; as I have been informed by a principal gentleman in the County of Cavan who protested to me that he never knew above one or two instances under the age of six, even in a part of the kingdom so renowned for the quickest proficiency in that art.
Page 296 - ... the number of people will be thereby much lessened in the kingdom. This I freely own, and was indeed one principal design in offering it to the world. I desire the reader will observe that I calculate my remedy for this one individual kingdom of Ireland and for no other that ever was, is, or I think ever can be upon earth.
Page 298 - I desire those politicians, who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have sin.ce gone through...