Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 1W. Blackwood, 1850 - 2060 sivua |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 90
Sivu 30
... months , was governed by those who outvied their associates in the impracticable extravagance of their patriotism , and sacrificed most profusely the real interests of the people at the shrine of a precarious popularity . " Mere ...
... months , was governed by those who outvied their associates in the impracticable extravagance of their patriotism , and sacrificed most profusely the real interests of the people at the shrine of a precarious popularity . " Mere ...
Sivu 43
... month , and it is read wherever the English language is understood . We call on them to answer this argument , and to point out on what principles they contend , first , that the present electors are nearly unanimous in favour of the ...
... month , and it is read wherever the English language is understood . We call on them to answer this argument , and to point out on what principles they contend , first , that the present electors are nearly unanimous in favour of the ...
Sivu 46
... months . " Everybody recollects the general delusion in favour of joint - stock companies in 1825. From the Chancellor of the Exchequer downwards , there was but one opinion as to the boundless wealth and inexhaustible resources of the ...
... months . " Everybody recollects the general delusion in favour of joint - stock companies in 1825. From the Chancellor of the Exchequer downwards , there was but one opinion as to the boundless wealth and inexhaustible resources of the ...
Sivu 47
... months , in greater force than before , equipped by the spoil of their weak and pusillanimous enemies . Who put an end to this ruinous system of conciliation and concession ? Alfred the Great , who from the first refused to yield any ...
... months , in greater force than before , equipped by the spoil of their weak and pusillanimous enemies . Who put an end to this ruinous system of conciliation and concession ? Alfred the Great , who from the first refused to yield any ...
Sivu 49
... months : it has arisen from foreign contagion , and been fanned by party ambition . The consequences of Reform may be predicted with toler- able certainty from the preceding observations . Suppose that the consequences of Reform are not ...
... months : it has arisen from foreign contagion , and been fanned by party ambition . The consequences of Reform may be predicted with toler- able certainty from the preceding observations . Suppose that the consequences of Reform are not ...
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
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
Suositut otteet
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.