Observations on the power of climate over the policy, strength, and manners of nations.
- Date:
- 1774
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the power of climate over the policy, strength, and manners of nations. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ »■ ] that the elded Ton was mod capable of performing the fervices of the tenure in defence of the realm ; but the common law never intended to fubjedt the free-born younger fons to villenage; it prefumed that they fhould receive employment through the feveral offices military, civil, and ecclefiadical, which are at this day within the difpofal of prerogative; it flip- pofed the king a faithful trudee to thefe purpofes, and that the younger fons of Englifh families ffiould be thus refpectably provided for : iince the abolition of military tenures the preference given to primogeni¬ ture continues, and as this preference cuts off the younger children from any part of the inheritance, the fame obligation dill remains upon prerogative of didribut- ing thefe employments in as jud and equal a proportion as before; this was un¬ doubtedly the true fpirit of that branch of the law of prerogative; for we cannot fuppofe thefe powers given to the pur¬ pofes of gratifying the capricious predi¬ lections of our kings ; they were given to be exercifed in bedowing the employ- 13 4 ments](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30790347_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
