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Page ii
... opinion a remote posterity may form of his political merits , many will think it presumptuous to predict ; yet we feel convinced that when time shall have eman- cipated future generations from the already rusting bonds of prejudice ...
... opinion a remote posterity may form of his political merits , many will think it presumptuous to predict ; yet we feel convinced that when time shall have eman- cipated future generations from the already rusting bonds of prejudice ...
Page xxi
... opinion of the issue of an election . On this occasion , he defended himself at great length from the charges which had been brought against him . The principal seemed to be that he had not visited the city so frequently as he ought ...
... opinion of the issue of an election . On this occasion , he defended himself at great length from the charges which had been brought against him . The principal seemed to be that he had not visited the city so frequently as he ought ...
Page xxvii
... opinion , of greater value ; an opinion which perhaps an impartial poste- rity will confirm . Thus , he writes in his letter to the Duke of Bedford , " Were I to call for a reward , ( which I have never done , ) it should be for those ...
... opinion , of greater value ; an opinion which perhaps an impartial poste- rity will confirm . Thus , he writes in his letter to the Duke of Bedford , " Were I to call for a reward , ( which I have never done , ) it should be for those ...
Page xxx
... opinion was soon to exasperate into the fiercest animosity . On the contrary , it was full of compliment . It contained the memorable acknowledgment , that " he had gained more by the conversation of Mr. Burke , than by all other men ...
... opinion was soon to exasperate into the fiercest animosity . On the contrary , it was full of compliment . It contained the memorable acknowledgment , that " he had gained more by the conversation of Mr. Burke , than by all other men ...
Page xxxi
... opinion of the stupendous changes which had taken place in France . He determined to do this from a twofold motive ; to secure for himself an authentic account of his opinions , and to furnish the people with ( what , in his opinion ...
... opinion of the stupendous changes which had taken place in France . He determined to do this from a twofold motive ; to secure for himself an authentic account of his opinions , and to furnish the people with ( what , in his opinion ...
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Page 262 - 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 curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or...
Page 180 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 186 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 185 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Page 204 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 188 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 393 - You will observe that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Page 186 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource, for, conciliation failing, force remains; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Page 187 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles, and such will be all masters of .slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Page 394 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.