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... proved . * This was clearly foreseen and often forcibly stated by that champion of Protestantism , the late learned Doctor Duigenan . To give way in any case to popular rashness , to the people's momentary opinions and desires , is , as ...
... proved . * This was clearly foreseen and often forcibly stated by that champion of Protestantism , the late learned Doctor Duigenan . To give way in any case to popular rashness , to the people's momentary opinions and desires , is , as ...
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... prove to have been wisely ordered . Sir Robert Peel , in the opinion of many , has shewn himself too ready to yield to innovation and popular clamour . Would that * The antilogy of the terms Roman Catholic is noticed by Milton , as ...
... prove to have been wisely ordered . Sir Robert Peel , in the opinion of many , has shewn himself too ready to yield to innovation and popular clamour . Would that * The antilogy of the terms Roman Catholic is noticed by Milton , as ...
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... proved by Mr. Eneas Mc Donnell , who for five years was zealously employed in advocating and soliciting the Relief Bill till it became a law . But the meanness of those who , after having been insulted and spurned at , as the present ...
... proved by Mr. Eneas Mc Donnell , who for five years was zealously employed in advocating and soliciting the Relief Bill till it became a law . But the meanness of those who , after having been insulted and spurned at , as the present ...
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... prove , were it necessary , that Ire- land has always suffered more from the weakness than from the strength of England . " What is mentioned above , merits the most serious attention . If the country be destined to have a parliament ...
... prove , were it necessary , that Ire- land has always suffered more from the weakness than from the strength of England . " What is mentioned above , merits the most serious attention . If the country be destined to have a parliament ...
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... proved and if the first be a mere matter of indifference , the second must be much more so , and by consequence impertinent and unnecessary . The third , however vulgarly misunderstood , is capable of a rational and useful meaning . It ...
... proved and if the first be a mere matter of indifference , the second must be much more so , and by consequence impertinent and unnecessary . The third , however vulgarly misunderstood , is capable of a rational and useful meaning . It ...
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Página 227 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página i - Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Página 80 - The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Página 80 - ... under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community...
Página 76 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
Página 38 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown ; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable.
Página 80 - One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Página 31 - Church's safety are dearer to me than my life, but my conscience dearer than both : and therefore give me leave to do my duty, and tell you, that princes are deputed nursing fathers of the Church...
Página 76 - The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillity of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
Página 148 - Government is a con.trivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.