 | Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers - 1841 - 406 pages
...continue to neglect it, you may expect to be treated according to the resentment of an injured nation ; for Englishmen are no more to be slaves to parliaments, than to kings. " Our name is Legion, and we are Many." De Foe seems to have written a History of the Kentish Petition. And in the following year,... | |
 | James Vernon - Great Britain - 1841 - 406 pages
...Gate-house. This was followed by the famous memorial signed Legion, ending with the remarkable words, " Englishmen are no more to be slaves to Parliaments than to Kings-" t By this period Charles II., of Spain, had closed his eyes, appointing Philip, Duke of Anjou, his... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1844 - 986 pages
...memorial, on pain of in curring the resentmentof an injured nation It was concluded in these words: "Foi Englishmen are no more to be slaves to parliaments than to kings— our name is Legion, and we are many." The commons were equally provoked and intimidated b; this libel, which was the production... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - Great Britain - 1848 - 588 pages
...gentlemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the counties of , in behalf of themselves and manythousands of the good people of England." It was signed Legion,...Parliaments than to kings — our name is Legion, CHAP. and we are many." The Commons were equally provoked . YI' , and intimidated by this libel, which... | |
 | Biography - 1853 - 530 pages
...England, to the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses in Parliament assembled ; " and ends in the following words : " For Englishmen are no more to be slaves...Parliaments than to Kings : " Our name is LEGION, And we are MANY. "If you require to have this Memorial signed with our names, it shall be done, on your first... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 520 pages
...the commons were admonished to act according to their duty, as specified in this memorial, on pain nf incurring the resentment of an injured nation : it...parliaments than to kings : our name is Legion, and we are many.' The commons were equally provoked and intimidated by this libel, which was the production... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - Great Britain - 1857 - 440 pages
...continue to neglect it, you may expect to be treated according to the resentments of an injured nation ; for Englishmen are no more to be slaves to parliaments than to kings. Our name is Legion, and we are many." The Commons vote this "scandalous, insolent, and seditious," and complain of " the attempts... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 536 pages
...continue to neglect it, you may expect to be treated according to the resentment of an injured nation ; for Englishmen are no more to be slaves to parliaments than to kings." In that "History of England from the Revolution," which still holds its place in companionship with... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 250 pages
...resentment of an injured nation. It was eoneluded in these words — " For Englishmen are no more to he slaves to parliaments than to kings — our name is Legion, and we are many." Tho eommons were equally provoked and intimidated hy this lihel, whieh was the produetion... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 pages
...with illegal and unwarrantable practices, and demanded that it should act with honesty and truth, " for Englishmen are no more to be slaves to parliaments than to kings". From internal evidence this paper is attributed to Defoe. The House was in a perfect fury, all the... | |
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It was concluded in these words : " For Englishmen are no more to be slaves to parliaments than to kings — our name is Legion, and we are many. 
