Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 1W. Blackwood, 1850 - 2060 sivua |
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... CRIME and TRANSPORTATION . To the Political Treatises , which occupy about half the Work , have been added a variety of Essays on subjects of HISTORY , LITERATURE , and TASTE , which had formed the recreation of the Author during that ...
... CRIME and TRANSPORTATION . To the Political Treatises , which occupy about half the Work , have been added a variety of Essays on subjects of HISTORY , LITERATURE , and TASTE , which had formed the recreation of the Author during that ...
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... crime - without condemnation - without even accu- sation and now ! " . These examples are worthy of the most serious consider- ation , and , in truth , are decisive of the legal question . How is it possible to stigmatise that right as ...
... crime - without condemnation - without even accu- sation and now ! " . These examples are worthy of the most serious consider- ation , and , in truth , are decisive of the legal question . How is it possible to stigmatise that right as ...
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... crime to insist that power shall not be devolved but to such as have availed themselves of these universal capabilities , and have arrived either at eminence or property ; to those who have reached the summit of the ladder in relation ...
... crime to insist that power shall not be devolved but to such as have availed themselves of these universal capabilities , and have arrived either at eminence or property ; to those who have reached the summit of the ladder in relation ...
Sivu 123
... other words , mere force , comes in its stead . Would you know its internal policy ? difference of opinion is considered as a crime ; suspicion is arrest ; punish- ment , death ; it knows no law but force THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1830 .
... other words , mere force , comes in its stead . Would you know its internal policy ? difference of opinion is considered as a crime ; suspicion is arrest ; punish- ment , death ; it knows no law but force THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1830 .
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... crime of political suicide attach itself to us . Let the Ministers of England have the glorious satisfaction of destroying our institutions and commerce , and rendering our island a magnificent pyramid of desolation and ruin . England ...
... crime of political suicide attach itself to us . Let the Ministers of England have the glorious satisfaction of destroying our institutions and commerce , and rendering our island a magnificent pyramid of desolation and ruin . England ...
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a-year agricultural ambition amidst amount aristocracy Bank Bank of England become BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE boroughs Britain British British empire brought capital cause Charles X civilisation classes colonies commercial consequence Conservative party constitution convicts Corn Laws crime criminals currency democratic despotism destroyed destruction distress duty effect electors emancipation empire England English established Europe evil existence exports fatal favour force foreign France free trade free-trade freedom French French Revolution grain House of Commons House of Peers human immense importation increase industry influence interests Ireland Irish islands labour land legislature Liberal liberty Lord Louis Philippe manufacturing measures ment millions multitude National Guard never opinion Paris Parliament party passions Peers period political popular population principles produce progress prosperity quarter Reform Bill rendered Revolution revolutionary ruin Scotland slaves society suffering tion tonnage vast wealth West India Whigs whole
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Sivu 391 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
Sivu 467 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Sivu 237 - ... 2. That through a determined and persevering, but, at the same time, judicious and temperate enforcement of such measures, this House looks forward to a progressive improvement in the character of the slave population, such as may prepare them for a participation in those civil rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other classes of his majesty's subjects.
Sivu 467 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...
Sivu 467 - ... loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...
Sivu 538 - Lochiel, False wizard, avaunt! I have marshalled my clan: Their swords are a thousand; their bosoms are one. They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death.
Sivu 94 - Divinity, now discover in that personage only a newly-created despot without any of the accessories or advantages which give, even to despotism, some hold on public opinion. A reaction has accordingly taken place: and men are in consequence prepared to listen to things against which, previously, they, adderwise, closed their ears, and remained deaf to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Sivu 338 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Sivu 143 - Asia, by the desolating hand of power. The tyranny which, on every favourable moment, was breaking through all barriers, would have rioted without control, if, when the people were poor and disunited, the nobility had not been brave and free. So far as the sphere of feudality extended, it diffused the spirit of liberty and the notions of private right.
Sivu 95 - ... regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the safety of the State.