Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 1W. Blackwood, 1850 - 2060 sivua |
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... hundred Hunts , a hundred O'Connells , and a hundred Humes ? This consideration points to the fundamental and irre- mediable defect of the proposed constitution , that it vests an overwhelming majority in the populace of these islands ...
... hundred Hunts , a hundred O'Connells , and a hundred Humes ? This consideration points to the fundamental and irre- mediable defect of the proposed constitution , that it vests an overwhelming majority in the populace of these islands ...
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... hundreds of thousands set forth , without guides , on the popular enterprise : millions of men were sacrificed in the holy ... hundred of the ablest men in France were unanimous in condemning an innocent monarch . On a subject , says the ...
... hundreds of thousands set forth , without guides , on the popular enterprise : millions of men were sacrificed in the holy ... hundred of the ablest men in France were unanimous in condemning an innocent monarch . On a subject , says the ...
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... hundred individuals , the victims of spoliation , will be drowned in the shouts of millions eager to share their spoils . The Radicals are already preparing for such an event . A paragraph has lately made the round of the public press ...
... hundred individuals , the victims of spoliation , will be drowned in the shouts of millions eager to share their spoils . The Radicals are already preparing for such an event . A paragraph has lately made the round of the public press ...
Sivu 65
... hundred millions ! Let it not be supposed , that the peril which such a mea- sure would occasion to their own property , would for a moment deter the £ 10 tenants from exacting from their constituents pledges to support this grand ...
... hundred millions ! Let it not be supposed , that the peril which such a mea- sure would occasion to their own property , would for a moment deter the £ 10 tenants from exacting from their constituents pledges to support this grand ...
Sivu 66
... hundred millions sterling . The circumstance which renders the occurrence of such extreme measures , it is to be feared , inevitable , if once the legislative authority is vested in the multitude , is , that the democratic party , when ...
... hundred millions sterling . The circumstance which renders the occurrence of such extreme measures , it is to be feared , inevitable , if once the legislative authority is vested in the multitude , is , that the democratic party , when ...
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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.