 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1837 - 494 pages
...culous, sight to see people crowding at the " Quarter Sessions to give a testimony of their alle" giance to a Government, and cursing it at the " same time for giving them the trouble of so doing, f' and for the fright they were put into by it ; and " I am satisfied more real disaffection to the... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1840 - 446 pages
...saw a great deal of it ; and it was a strange, as well as a ridiculous sight, to see people crowding to give a testimony of their allegiance to a government,...them the trouble of so doing, and for the fright they 1723. THE WALPOLE PEERAGE. 123 were put into by it ; and I am satisfied more real disaffection to the... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 516 pages
...ridiculous sight to see people crowding at the quarter sessions to give a testimony of their allegiance to government, and cursing it at the same time for giving them the trouble of so doing, and tor the fright they were put into by it." AD 1723. — The young Templar, Mr. Layer, was tried and... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1848 - 902 pages
...a testimony of their allegiance to government, and cursing it at the same time for giving them tho trouble of so doing, and for the fright they were put into by it." AD 1723. The young Templar, Mr. Layer, was tried and convicted in the Court of King's Bench of having... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 470 pages
...signally failed. All it did was to create perjury. Speaker Onslow, who opposed the measure, writes, — " I am satisfied more real disaffection to the king and his family Mose from it than from anything which happened at that time." When will men learn that oaths are powerless... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 534 pages
...might avoid the tax, says, — " It was a strange as well as ridiculous sight to see people crowding to give a testimony of their allegiance to a Government,...am satisfied more real disaffection to the King and hia family arose from it than from any thing which happened in that time. It made the Government appear... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 570 pages
...and it was a strange, " as well as ridiculous, sight to see people crowd" ing at the Quarter Sessions to give a testimony " of their allegiance to a Government,...from it than " from any thing which happened in that Ltime." Some of the Jacobites consulted their Prince as to the course which they should pursue in this... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 424 pages
...and it was a strange, as well as ridiculous, sight " to see people crowding at the Quarter Sessions to give "a testimony of their allegiance to a Government,...doing, and for the fright they were put into by it; t6 and I am satisfied more real disaffection to the King and " his family arose from it than from any... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1860 - 648 pages
..." and it was a strange as well as a ridiculous sight to see people crowding at the quarter sessions to give a testimony of their allegiance to a government,...giving them the trouble of so doing, and for the fright which they were put to by it ; and I am satisfied more real disaffection to the king and his family... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 660 pages
...crowding at the quarter sessions to give a testimony of their allegiance to a government, and cursin; it at the same time for giving them the trouble of so doing and for the fright which they were put to by it ; and '. am satisfied more real disaffection to the king and his family... | |
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I saw a great deal of it, and it was a strange as well as ridiculous sight to see people crouding to give a testimony of their allegiance to a government, and cursing it at the same time for giving them the trouble of so doing... 
