Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volumen 1Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... election restored to the elec- tive body ? My lords , I myself am one of the people . I esteem that security and independence , which is the original birthright of an Englishman , far beyond the privileges , however splendid , which are ...
... election restored to the elec- tive body ? My lords , I myself am one of the people . I esteem that security and independence , which is the original birthright of an Englishman , far beyond the privileges , however splendid , which are ...
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... election . So far from conveying any opinion upon that matter , in the amendment , I did not even in discourse deliver my own sentiments upon it . I did not say that the house of commons had done either right or wrong ; but , when his ...
... election . So far from conveying any opinion upon that matter , in the amendment , I did not even in discourse deliver my own sentiments upon it . I did not say that the house of commons had done either right or wrong ; but , when his ...
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... election , is destitute of every one of those properties and conditions which I hold to be essential to the legality of such a decision . It is not founded in reason ; for it carries with it a contradiction , that the representative ...
... election , is destitute of every one of those properties and conditions which I hold to be essential to the legality of such a decision . It is not founded in reason ; for it carries with it a contradiction , that the representative ...
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... elections of members to serve in parliament shall be free ; and so far is this decision from being submitted to by the people , that they have taken the strongest measures , and adopted the most positive language to express their ...
... elections of members to serve in parliament shall be free ; and so far is this decision from being submitted to by the people , that they have taken the strongest measures , and adopted the most positive language to express their ...
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... election of magistrates , or on the ba- lance among the several orders of the state . The question of money was not with them so immediate . But in England it was otherwise . On this point of taxes the ablest pens , and most eloquent ...
... election of magistrates , or on the ba- lance among the several orders of the state . The question of money was not with them so immediate . But in England it was otherwise . On this point of taxes the ablest pens , and most eloquent ...
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Página 2 - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, « An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Página 112 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 164 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Página 166 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Página 247 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 112 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Página 118 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Página 128 - ... a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Página 120 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt and Arabia and Kurdistan as he governs Thrace ; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Página 155 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.