Petition
,—a form of prayer, unprofitable, inconvenient, and useless, when directed from the People to the minister; but sure, certain, and infallible, when in the form of a parlimentary act it requests money from the nation.
,—a form of prayer, unprofitable, inconvenient, and useless, when directed from the People to the minister; but sure, certain, and infallible, when in the form of a parlimentary act it requests money from the nation.
Entry taken from Political Dictionary, edited by Charles Pigott from prison and printed in 1795.