Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III. to which is Added Remarks on Party, and an Appendix, Volume 1 |
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... authority has ascribed to him a more thorough know- ledge of the duties of each several department in the state than any other man ever possessed ; and this is the testi- mony of one both singularly accurate in stating facts , and ...
... authority has ascribed to him a more thorough know- ledge of the duties of each several department in the state than any other man ever possessed ; and this is the testi- mony of one both singularly accurate in stating facts , and ...
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... authorities of no mean rank , that the sovereign , having chosen his ministers , assigns over to them the whole executive power . They treat him as a kind of trustee for a temporary use , to preserve , as it were , some contingent ...
... authorities of no mean rank , that the sovereign , having chosen his ministers , assigns over to them the whole executive power . They treat him as a kind of trustee for a temporary use , to preserve , as it were , some contingent ...
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... authority which he possessed among his contemporaries , the influence which his sound and practical wisdom exer- cised over their proceedings , the services which he was thus enabled to render in steering the constitution safe through ...
... authority which he possessed among his contemporaries , the influence which his sound and practical wisdom exer- cised over their proceedings , the services which he was thus enabled to render in steering the constitution safe through ...
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... authority ; that it was believed by those who had the best means of knowing Lord Chatham is certain ; and this of itself shows their sense of the ex- traordinary powers of his manner , and the reach of his audacity in trusting to those ...
... authority ; that it was believed by those who had the best means of knowing Lord Chatham is certain ; and this of itself shows their sense of the ex- traordinary powers of his manner , and the reach of his audacity in trusting to those ...
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... authority of the House of Commons - no man would go farther to defend it . But beyond the line of the Constitution , like every ex- ercise of arbitrary power , it becomes illegal , threaten- ing tyranny to the people , destruction to ...
... authority of the House of Commons - no man would go farther to defend it . But beyond the line of the Constitution , like every ex- ercise of arbitrary power , it becomes illegal , threaten- ing tyranny to the people , destruction to ...
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Page 50 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Page 46 - 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 51 - Spain; in vain he defended and established the honour, the liberties, the religion, the Protestant religion, of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of popery and the inquisition, if these more than popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us...
Page 47 - 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.
Page 174 - It would (among public misfortunes) be an evil more natural and tolerable, that the House of Commons should be infected with every epidemical frenzy of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity, some sympathy of nature with their constituents, than that they should in all cases be wholly untouched by the opinions and feelings of the people out of doors.
Page 51 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Page 163 - A species of men to whom a state of order would become a sentence of obscurity, are nourished into a dangerous magnitude by the heat of intestine disturbances ; and it is no wonder that, by a sort of sinister piety, they cherish, in their turn, the disorders which are the parents of all their consequence.
Page 174 - The king is the representative of the people ; so are the lords ; so are the judges. They all are trustees for the people, as well as the commons ; because no power is given for the sole sake of the holder ; and although government certainly is an institution of divine authority, yet its forms, and the persons who administer it, all originate from the people.
Page 51 - I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian...
Page 51 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation. I call upon that right reverend bench, those holy ministers of the gospel, and pious pastors of our church; I conjure them to join in the holy work, and vindicate the religion of their God.