5 chapters
29 minute read
Selected Chapters
5 chapters
DEDICATED TO THE HOUSE OF PEERS.
DEDICATED TO THE HOUSE OF PEERS.
“Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. A SPIRIT passed before my face.” Job. LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM HONE, 45, LUDGATE HILL. 1821. Sixpence. J. M‘Creery, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London....
14 minute read
PREFACE.
PREFACE.
The following lines were written under the powerful impulse of feelings which appear to have been almost consentaneous with those of the whole British people. The national spirit has been rouzed against this cruel and unconstitutional attack upon the Queen , with pervasive ardour, which forcibly recalls the language of the Augustan poet:— This irresistible movement has been one of LOYALTY , not of FACTION ; of love and not of enmity towards the constitution. It is not disputed that factious men
1 minute read
A VISION.
A VISION.
[A] See the Earl of Chatham’s animated speech against the employment of Indian warriors to assist in the subjugation of America. [B] In this, as I conceive, seasonable reproof of certain “ Lords Spiritual ” I would not be understood to involve the whole of that reverend body. Some of them, I firmly believe, have remained at a distance from the combat, aged and infirm, like Eli , sitting by the wayside of Shiloh, and watching with trembling heart, lest the ark (I will not say of God , but of THE
23 minute read
JUST PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM HONE,
JUST PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM HONE,
45, Ludgate-Hill . Price Two Shillings. T HE PREROGATIVES OF A QUEEN CONSORT OF ENGLAND; particularly of her ability to make and receive Gifts, to sue and be sued, and to hold Courts without the King; of its being Treason to plot against her Life; of the modes of trying her for Offences; and of her ancient Revenue of Queen-Gold. “The King’s wife is participant of many Prerogatives above other Women.”— Finch. Handsomely engraved, in one Print, from authentic Likenesses obtained by William Hone fr
1 minute read
JUST PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM HONE,
JUST PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM HONE,
45, Ludgate-Hill . Price Six Shillings in Boards. THE APOCRYPHAL NEW TESTAMENT , Being all the Gospels, Epistles, and other pieces now extant, attributed in the first four centuries to JESUS CHRIST, his Apostles, and their companions, and not included in the New Testament by its compilers. Translated from the original, and now first collected into One Volume, with a Preface and Tables. * * * The Books that exist, of those not included in the Canon, are carefully brought together into the present
2 minute read