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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... doubt being as to the particular line of conduct which that voice and will direct . 2. As almost all princes rule by the advice of ministers , and must execute their decrees by the assistance of a great number of deputies ; the ...
... doubt being as to the particular line of conduct which that voice and will direct . 2. As almost all princes rule by the advice of ministers , and must execute their decrees by the assistance of a great number of deputies ; the ...
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... doubt that the consolidation of the smaller dynasties into which the different empires were once divided , took place , in all , about the same period . The united empire of the Frank under Charlemagne was too for- midable a neighbour ...
... doubt that the consolidation of the smaller dynasties into which the different empires were once divided , took place , in all , about the same period . The united empire of the Frank under Charlemagne was too for- midable a neighbour ...
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... doubt that it must speak with tenfold force . It has often happened , that the resolutions of Parliament have been disregarded by the Crown : but when was it ever attempted by the boldest or the blindest rulers , to disregard the voice ...
... doubt that it must speak with tenfold force . It has often happened , that the resolutions of Parliament have been disregarded by the Crown : but when was it ever attempted by the boldest or the blindest rulers , to disregard the voice ...
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... doubt , that the more the people were accustomed to assemble and deliberate on their con- cerns , the less easy would it become to entrap their understandings by such base means . Nor is this remark altogether inapplicable to the ...
... doubt , that the more the people were accustomed to assemble and deliberate on their con- cerns , the less easy would it become to entrap their understandings by such base means . Nor is this remark altogether inapplicable to the ...
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... doubt , singularly pure ; and the Judges , from their habits of seclusion , are generally speaking , little under the evil influence which a contact with the court is apt to engender . Nevertheless , their leanings are almost always ...
... doubt , singularly pure ; and the Judges , from their habits of seclusion , are generally speaking , little under the evil influence which a contact with the court is apt to engender . Nevertheless , their leanings are almost always ...
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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...