Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 1W. Blackwood, 1850 - 2060 sivua |
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... force collected a thousand miles above Calcutta , for the siege of Bhurtpore , exceeded the native English who conquered at Waterloo . When all these things are considered , and the result proves to have been that the vital changes were ...
... force collected a thousand miles above Calcutta , for the siege of Bhurtpore , exceeded the native English who conquered at Waterloo . When all these things are considered , and the result proves to have been that the vital changes were ...
Sivu 30
... force and flagitious audacity . " It is in this manner , it appears to us , that from the want of a natural and efficient aristocracy , to exercise the functions of hereditary legislators , the National Assembly of France was betrayed ...
... force and flagitious audacity . " It is in this manner , it appears to us , that from the want of a natural and efficient aristocracy , to exercise the functions of hereditary legislators , the National Assembly of France was betrayed ...
Sivu 31
... force harassed the misguided nation , till , by a natural consummation , they fell under a successful military usur- per . ' As a contrast to the French Assembly , Lord Brougham powerfully and triumphantly quotes the old British con ...
... force harassed the misguided nation , till , by a natural consummation , they fell under a successful military usur- per . ' As a contrast to the French Assembly , Lord Brougham powerfully and triumphantly quotes the old British con ...
Sivu 32
... force of that current which they have originally been chiefly instrumental in putting in motion . Borne forward upon the wave of popular ambition , the authors of the present bill are carried so far beyond their dispassionate opinion on ...
... force of that current which they have originally been chiefly instrumental in putting in motion . Borne forward upon the wave of popular ambition , the authors of the present bill are carried so far beyond their dispassionate opinion on ...
Sivu 38
... force ? But this table furnishes another and a still more alarming subject for consideration . It appears from it that a con- siderable majority of English and Scotch members are against the Bill , and that it was carried by the ...
... force ? But this table furnishes another and a still more alarming subject for consideration . It appears from it that a con- siderable majority of English and Scotch members are against the Bill , and that it was carried by the ...
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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.