Familiar Words, as Affecting the Conduct of England in 1855: Second seriesTrübner & Company, 1855 |
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abstract acts affairs alliance appear applied authority become bring brought called cause character Christian Church civilization common condition conduct consequence considered constitution course crime crown depends designate duty effect England English equal error established existence expression fact faction foreign France freedom French give given gold Greece Greek habit hand happiness human individual interfere internal intervention judge justice king knowledge labour language Latin less live matter means measure ment mind ministers nation nature nets never object observe original ourselves Parliament party peace period political possessed practice present profit question reason reference religion represent respect result Roman Rome rule Russia sense sentence Socrates speak speech standard suffer suppose things thought tion tongue Turkey wealth words wrong
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Página 59 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Página 49 - Remedy, by the advice & assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and at the request of the said Commons...
Página 126 - Upon this thefeciales exhorted the senate to deliver him up to the Gauls ; but he applied to the people ; and being a favourite with them, was screened from the sentence. Soon after this the Gauls marched to Rome, and sacked the whole city, except the Capitol ; as we have related at large in the life of Camillus.
Página 26 - ... or spoil, was and yet is administered, adjudged, and executed by sundry judges and ministers of the other part of the said body politic called the temporalty ; and both their authorities and jurisdictions do conjoin together in the due administration of justice, the one to help the other.
Página 125 - Commanderin-Chief," said the young officer, like a second Seid, " should command me to do a thing which I knew to be civilly illegal, I should not scruple to obey him, and consider myself as relieved from all responsibility by the commands of my military superior." " So would not I," returned the gallant and intelligent officer who maintained the opposite side of the question.
Página 125 - You have answered like yourself," said his Royal Highness, whose attention had been attracted by the vivacity of the debate; and the officer would deserve both to be shot and hanged that should act otherwise. I trust all British officers would be as unwilling to execute an illegal command, as I trust the Commander-in-Chief would be incapable of issuing one.
Página 51 - free inquiry ; " how can institutions be excellent of which the result is the perpetual renewal of contest, and which require unattainable conditions for the conduct of this complicated machinery? Nor is it two or three men selected from the whole nation, but every American citizen who must possess all this knowledge and all these qualities, " to enable him to exercise his own rights, to protect his own interests, and sustain the just operations of public authority...
Página 147 - Language has actually become a part of our intellectual constitution, the use (character) of it exerts an influence over the whole of our mental operations, and while it facilitates them in one sense, does also in another impede and limit the play of our faculties ; and especially of the highest of those faculties. The constant presence of words in the mind slackens its curiosity, by leading it to believe that in fact it knows what in fact it does not know ; and it renders also its perception of...
Página 51 - No rulers," says Judge Story, " on earth are called to a more difficult and delicate task than our own. In the interpretation of constitutional questions alone a vast field is open for discussion and argument. The text, indeed, is singularly brief and expressive ; but that very brevity becomes of itself a source of obscurity, and that very expressiveness, while it gives prominence to the leading objects, leaves an ample space of debateahle ground upon which the champions of all opinions may contend...
Página 103 - The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.