The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen101A. Constable, 1855 |
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... respect to the Government is , in fine , to sustain the part of an Advocatus Diaboli ; his office is to state the case against the Administration ; to say everything which can be said with plausibility against every measure , every act ...
... respect to the Government is , in fine , to sustain the part of an Advocatus Diaboli ; his office is to state the case against the Administration ; to say everything which can be said with plausibility against every measure , every act ...
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... respect to foreign nations . In ancient times there were no newspapers , and there was no reporting of speeches for the public use . The vituperative * See the interesting account of the system of Scottish govern- ment at this time in ...
... respect to foreign nations . In ancient times there were no newspapers , and there was no reporting of speeches for the public use . The vituperative * See the interesting account of the system of Scottish govern- ment at this time in ...
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... respect to his own country , as the admissions of an unwilling witness ; whereas , in truth , they may be the highly coloured pictures of an eager partisan , seeking to establish a case against the Government , and to enhance his own ...
... respect to his own country , as the admissions of an unwilling witness ; whereas , in truth , they may be the highly coloured pictures of an eager partisan , seeking to establish a case against the Government , and to enhance his own ...
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... respect to charges affecting private life . But the eagerness of personal contention , and the jealousy of personal rivals , always lead , in deliberative assemblies , to mutual attacks of the leaders of opposite parties . Such attacks ...
... respect to charges affecting private life . But the eagerness of personal contention , and the jealousy of personal rivals , always lead , in deliberative assemblies , to mutual attacks of the leaders of opposite parties . Such attacks ...
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... respect , and is exceedingly interesting as a col- lection of the fragmentary notices of Mezzofanti published by tourists and others during the several stages of his career , yet could not , from its very form , be expected to contain ...
... respect , and is exceedingly interesting as a col- lection of the fragmentary notices of Mezzofanti published by tourists and others during the several stages of his career , yet could not , from its very form , be expected to contain ...
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Página 286 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Página 286 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever...
Página 519 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Página 155 - So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. If a new road, for instance, were to be made through the grounds of a private person, it might perhaps be extensively beneficial to the public, but the law permits no man, or set of men, to do this without consent of the owner of the land.
Página 452 - Pythian's mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more : Did he not this for France?
Página 232 - I am forced, with all humility, and yet plainly, to profess, that I cannot with safe conscience, and without the offence of the majesty of God, give my assent to the suppressing of the said exercises: much less can I send out any injunction for the utter and universal subversion of the same.
Página 349 - I know a citizen who adds or alters a letter in his name, with every plum he acquires; he now wants only the change of a vowel* to be allied to a sovereign prince in Italy ;f and that perhaps he may contrive to be done by a mistake of the graver upon his tomb-stone.
Página 102 - D'un simple bonnet de coton, Dit-on. Oh ! oh ! oh ! oh ! ah ! ah ! ah ! ah ! Quel bon petit roi c'était là ! La, la. Il fesait ses quatre repas Dans son palais de chaume, Et sur un âne, pas à pas, Parcourait son royaume.
Página 313 - The court does not recognize their application. There is no likeness between the cases. They are in opposition to each other, and there is an impassable gulf between them. The difference is that . which exists between freedom and slavery; and a greater cannot be imagined.
Página 313 - Such services can only be expected from one who has no will of his own, who surrenders his will in implicit obedience to that of another. Such obedience is the consequence only of uncontrolled authority over the body. There is nothing else which can operate to produce the effect. The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.