The Portfolio, Volumen2David Urquhart J. Maynard., 1843 |
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... Effect of the Misuse of Words , " postponed till next Number ; the same train of thought is followed out in " Judgment of the Nestor of British Diplomacy on Lords Auckland and Ellenborough , " as applied to the fallacy of preferring an ...
... Effect of the Misuse of Words , " postponed till next Number ; the same train of thought is followed out in " Judgment of the Nestor of British Diplomacy on Lords Auckland and Ellenborough , " as applied to the fallacy of preferring an ...
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... effect it , has not been within their power . Thence flow the hesitations of men , making them sceptics , because smothered in theories ; the embarrassments of government making them feeble , because overladen with power ; and policy ...
... effect it , has not been within their power . Thence flow the hesitations of men , making them sceptics , because smothered in theories ; the embarrassments of government making them feeble , because overladen with power ; and policy ...
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... effect on the passing opinions of the nation , without having any useful or permanent re- sults . There were no men called out from amongst the nation , separating themselves to adjoin themselves to the thoughts promulgated by this ...
... effect on the passing opinions of the nation , without having any useful or permanent re- sults . There were no men called out from amongst the nation , separating themselves to adjoin themselves to the thoughts promulgated by this ...
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... effect their purpose , and torture their victims with the fascination of the eye before the fatal spring is made . " " I have now before me the account which it has been judged convenient by her Majesty's Ministers and yourselves to lay ...
... effect their purpose , and torture their victims with the fascination of the eye before the fatal spring is made . " " I have now before me the account which it has been judged convenient by her Majesty's Ministers and yourselves to lay ...
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... effect on each nation , of its still surviving sympathy for the other : - The Frenchman , if his conscience is wrung by the atrocities of Algeria , is reconciled to his own villany and cowardly cruelty , by turning to England ; he sees ...
... effect on each nation , of its still surviving sympathy for the other : - The Frenchman , if his conscience is wrung by the atrocities of Algeria , is reconciled to his own villany and cowardly cruelty , by turning to England ; he sees ...
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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.