The plea set up for taxing us in order to support him is that his sword protects us, and enables us to live in peace and security.

And is he to be suffered to use that sword to destroy us ?" Kirke was tried and found guilty of manslaughter.

In his case, as in the case of Spencer Cowper, an attempt was made to obtain a writ of appeal.
The attempt failed; and Seymour was disappointed of his revenge; but he was not left without consolation.

If he had lost a son, he had found, what he seems to have prized quite as much, a fertile theme for invective.
The King, on his return from the Continent, found his subjects in no bland humour.

All Scotland, exasperated by the fate of the first expedition to Darien, and anxiously waiting for news of the second, called loudly for a Parliament.