Leaders of the senate: a biographical history of the rise and development of the British constitution. 2 vols. [issued in 15 pt.]. |
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... thought them clear and innocent . He must therefore be sent to the Tower and expelled the House to prevent his giving Parliament further trouble ; and for a charge against him , or anybody else , the Commissioners of Ac- counts , who ...
... thought them clear and innocent . He must therefore be sent to the Tower and expelled the House to prevent his giving Parliament further trouble ; and for a charge against him , or anybody else , the Commissioners of Ac- counts , who ...
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... thought ; all other matters were subservient . Seldom has a statesman been influenced by a narrower and more selfish creed ; yet never has such a creed , in spite of its selfishness , ministered so much to the peace and prosperity of a ...
... thought ; all other matters were subservient . Seldom has a statesman been influenced by a narrower and more selfish creed ; yet never has such a creed , in spite of its selfishness , ministered so much to the peace and prosperity of a ...
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... thought it advis- able to let that matter lie still till a more proper opportunity . " The bill was there- fore dropped for that session on the understanding , however , that it would be revived in the next . The scheme of the ...
... thought it advis- able to let that matter lie still till a more proper opportunity . " The bill was there- fore dropped for that session on the understanding , however , that it would be revived in the next . The scheme of the ...
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... thought , but I hope they are mistaken in their opinion of this House , that the chief obstacle would arise in the House of Lords , where they have always been tender upon personal points , espe- cially to any of their own body , does ...
... thought , but I hope they are mistaken in their opinion of this House , that the chief obstacle would arise in the House of Lords , where they have always been tender upon personal points , espe- cially to any of their own body , does ...
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... thought no more of selling his vote than he now does of selling his game or his fruit . Nor were the oppor- tunities for corruption slight . The House of Commons ever since the revolution of 1688 had been developing its strength and ...
... thought no more of selling his vote than he now does of selling his game or his fruit . Nor were the oppor- tunities for corruption slight . The House of Commons ever since the revolution of 1688 had been developing its strength and ...
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Page 224 - Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it ; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to every thing they want every thing. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Page 195 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Page 109 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me,' I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Page 158 - I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house or in this country!
Page 146 - Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper; they have been wronged; they have been driven to madness, by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned ? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America that she will follow the example. There are two lines in a ballad of...
Page 144 - It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever.
Page 146 - Act be repealed, absolutely, totally, and immediately; that the reason for the repeal be assigned, because it was founded on an erroneous principle. At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation, that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 207 - He has visited all Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Page 144 - 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.
Page 146 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.