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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose (v. 9); Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton
The Works of Alexander Pope Esq in Verse and Prose Containing the Principal Notes of Drs Warburton and Warton - v. 9 Author:Alexander Pope Volume: v. 9 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1806 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has... more » no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: As to Parliaments , I adored the wifdoni of that Gothic Inftitution which made them annual: and I was confident our Liberty could never be placed upon a, firm foundation until that ancient law were re- flored among us. For, who fees not, that, while fuch Afiemblies are permitted to have a longer duration, there grows up a commerce of corruption between the Miniftry and the Deputies, wherein they bothboth find their accounts, to the manifeft danger of Liberty ? which traffic would never anfwer the defign nor expence, if Parliaments met once a year. When King William hefitattd about paffing the Bill for triennial Parliaments, (for annaa/feem imprafticable, and out of the queflio'. i,) and fent down to Sir William Temple, who had retired from public bufinefs, to defire he would give him his free opinion on this important meafure, Sir William difpatched Swift, then a young man, and who lived in his houfe, with a letter to his Majefty, informing him, that the meflenger was fully inftructed to give him all poffible information on the fubject. The King liftened to Swift with patience and attention, and gave his affent to the Bill. As to extending the duration of Parliament, in the Reign of George I. Dr. yohnfon has exprefled himfelf with great mphafis, by faying, " That the fudden introduction of twelve new Peers at once by Queen Anne, was an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal; and by no mea...« less