The Portfolio, Volumen2David Urquhart J. Maynard., 1843 |
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... authorities , without yet having fallen into list- lessness and indifference . There are amongst the young men of France , some of future promise , who have them- selves arrived at the conclusion , that it is not by theories and ...
... authorities , without yet having fallen into list- lessness and indifference . There are amongst the young men of France , some of future promise , who have them- selves arrived at the conclusion , that it is not by theories and ...
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... authority of the writer , and the disregard of the nation , -a nation that strays , and one that will not be put right . It is not that we have fallen from virtue , but that we love vice ; it is not that we have been betrayed into guilt ...
... authority of the writer , and the disregard of the nation , -a nation that strays , and one that will not be put right . It is not that we have fallen from virtue , but that we love vice ; it is not that we have been betrayed into guilt ...
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... papers presented to these high authorities , regarding our former unjustifiable and foolish proceedings in Persia and Affghanistan , were shamefully garbled , and the world now suspects , 14 JUDGMENT ON LORDS AUCKLAND.
... papers presented to these high authorities , regarding our former unjustifiable and foolish proceedings in Persia and Affghanistan , were shamefully garbled , and the world now suspects , 14 JUDGMENT ON LORDS AUCKLAND.
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... authority of the nation to do justice . We demand justice against them in the same manner , by the same right that we claim the execution of the laws against the crimes of private citizens - and under the higher obli- gations to do so ...
... authority of the nation to do justice . We demand justice against them in the same manner , by the same right that we claim the execution of the laws against the crimes of private citizens - and under the higher obli- gations to do so ...
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... authority as overwhelming as the evidence . Let us enumerate them . In respect to Scinde , it is known that reprobation has been universal in the Court of Directors , and the expression of one of its members may convey the sense of all ...
... authority as overwhelming as the evidence . Let us enumerate them . In respect to Scinde , it is known that reprobation has been universal in the Court of Directors , and the expression of one of its members may convey the sense of all ...
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Página 290 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Página 291 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Página 258 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal: this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Página 299 - And thereupon their Majesties were pleased, That the said lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, being the two houses of parliament, should continue to sit, and with their Majesties' royal concurrence make effectual provision for the settlement of the religion, laws and liberties, of this kingdom, so that the same for the future might not be in danger again of being subverted ; to which the said lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, did agree and proceed to act accordingly.
Página 602 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British Ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.
Página 603 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it, sir, we must...
Página 306 - But indeed it well justifies another observation which he has made (*), " that the English know better than any other people upon earth, how to value at the same time these three great advantages, religion, liberty, and commerce.
Página 602 - We have petitioned ; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Página 258 - It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of Parliaments themselves ; as was done by the act of union, and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections. It can, in short, do everything that is not naturally impossible ; and therefore some have not scrupled to call its power, by a figure rather too bold, the omnipotence of Parliament.
Página 63 - That the colonies and plantations of Great Britain in North America, consisting of fourteen separate governments, and containing two millions and upwards of free inhabitants, have not had the liberty and privilege of electing and sending any knights and burgesses, or others, to represent them in the high court of parliament.