The Portfolio, Volumen2David Urquhart J. Maynard., 1843 |
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... Russia , because of knowledge or capacity , from which natives and nobles of Russia are excluded . Russia is no more Russia , than England is Englaud , and France France . Russia is her Cabinet - a few Greeks and Germans . England is ...
... Russia , because of knowledge or capacity , from which natives and nobles of Russia are excluded . Russia is no more Russia , than England is Englaud , and France France . Russia is her Cabinet - a few Greeks and Germans . England is ...
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... Russia , and the clergy of Russian origin , and the Russian Government ; the two former seeking to preserve entire and unbroken dependence upon Constantinople , the latter endea- vouring to establish an Independent Patriarchate or ...
... Russia , and the clergy of Russian origin , and the Russian Government ; the two former seeking to preserve entire and unbroken dependence upon Constantinople , the latter endea- vouring to establish an Independent Patriarchate or ...
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... Russia , the oath to extend its frontier ! So much for the authority of the Church of Russia within ; but that religion is to be found in neigh- bouring kingdoms and empires , chiefly in Turkey and Austria , and there it has been used ...
... Russia , the oath to extend its frontier ! So much for the authority of the Church of Russia within ; but that religion is to be found in neigh- bouring kingdoms and empires , chiefly in Turkey and Austria , and there it has been used ...
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... Russia would be an able prop of England's power if constrained to obedience to the laws of God and man . England becomes the chief instrument of Russia's progress when seduced or constrained into the violation of those laws . As they ...
... Russia would be an able prop of England's power if constrained to obedience to the laws of God and man . England becomes the chief instrument of Russia's progress when seduced or constrained into the violation of those laws . As they ...
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... Russia ? But what a still more dreadful contamination ensues from a coincidence between the character and posi- tion of the Church , of the two countries ? But In these two alone in Europe is the chief of the State , the chief of the ...
... Russia ? But what a still more dreadful contamination ensues from a coincidence between the character and posi- tion of the Church , of the two countries ? But In these two alone in Europe is the chief of the State , the chief of the ...
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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.