Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best Articles in that Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time, Volúmenes 5-6Baudry's European Library, 1835 |
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... argument in Segur's notes , tending either to modify or overthrow the favourite conclusions of the former politician . It appears to us ( although we cannot afford room for the discussion ) that the doctrine of Favier , with a few ...
... argument in Segur's notes , tending either to modify or overthrow the favourite conclusions of the former politician . It appears to us ( although we cannot afford room for the discussion ) that the doctrine of Favier , with a few ...
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... argument he never would have urged ; and indeed he has expressed his sentiments upon the general subject so strongly and clearly in a letter to the chairman of the Buckinghamshire county meeting of 1780 , printed in the last volume of ...
... argument he never would have urged ; and indeed he has expressed his sentiments upon the general subject so strongly and clearly in a letter to the chairman of the Buckinghamshire county meeting of 1780 , printed in the last volume of ...
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... argument proceeds , in the nature of a composition or set - off , ) the courts of justice always open , where the subject may be secure of protection for his liberty , where royal influence is effectually excluded , and open violence ...
... argument proceeds , in the nature of a composition or set - off , ) the courts of justice always open , where the subject may be secure of protection for his liberty , where royal influence is effectually excluded , and open violence ...
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... argument against it ; a conclusive reason for making no change . But can any act of misgovernment be indifferent ? Connected as all the parts of every political system are together , who shall say that an injury to one of them may not ...
... argument against it ; a conclusive reason for making no change . But can any act of misgovernment be indifferent ? Connected as all the parts of every political system are together , who shall say that an injury to one of them may not ...
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... argument be observed , when compared with the language held to the people out of doors . To the people these men say , " Be quiet ; the constitution is safe in the hands of the Par- liament . " In the Parliament they hold all idea of ...
... argument be observed , when compared with the language held to the people out of doors . To the people these men say , " Be quiet ; the constitution is safe in the hands of the Par- liament . " In the Parliament they hold all idea of ...
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Página 382 - Britain, as being inseparably united and annexed thereunto ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity, to bind the Kingdom and people of Ireland.
Página 382 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Página 98 - But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.
Página 404 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them...
Página 27 - ... sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one.
Página 85 - Such a generous contention for power, on such manly and honourable maxims, will easily be distinguished from the mean and interested struggle for place and emolument. The very style of such persons will serve to discriminate them from those numberless impostors, who have deluded the ignorant with professions incompatible with human practice, and have afterwards incensed them by practices below the level of vulgar rectitude.
Página 37 - It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries.
Página 156 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom, and that we shall be ready to consent to such an act of parliament as upon mature deliberation shall be offered to us for the full granting that indulgence.
Página 89 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them abundantly with what they have occasion for, and they accommodate him as amply with what he has occasion for, and a general plenty diffuses itself through...
Página 382 - America, or relates thereto it has been declared, 'that the King and Parliament of Great Britain will not impose any duty, tax, or assessment whatever, payable in any of His Majesty's colonies, provinces, and plantations in North America or the West Indies, except only such duties as it may be expedient to impose for the regulation of commerce...