On the Roman Catholic Question: Substance of Two Speeches Delivered in the House of Commons on May 10, 1825, and May 9, 1828 |
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... civil advantages , do neverthe- less enjoy an aggregate balance of more civil liberty than any of their creed any where else possess ; and that the great diffi- culty of admitting them to the privileges now withheld from them in this ...
... civil advantages , do neverthe- less enjoy an aggregate balance of more civil liberty than any of their creed any where else possess ; and that the great diffi- culty of admitting them to the privileges now withheld from them in this ...
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... civil , in these his dominions , supreme , " but that he will re- gard another person , and him a foreign prince , as in these dominions , and over one - half of human affairs , supreme . If I could consider these claims of the Roman ...
... civil , in these his dominions , supreme , " but that he will re- gard another person , and him a foreign prince , as in these dominions , and over one - half of human affairs , supreme . If I could consider these claims of the Roman ...
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... civil society ; power is the right of no man . No man has an abstract right to possess power in any com- munity ; it is the free gift of each community to each person , to each class ; and on the principle on which the constitution of ...
... civil society ; power is the right of no man . No man has an abstract right to possess power in any com- munity ; it is the free gift of each community to each person , to each class ; and on the principle on which the constitution of ...
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... civil office ; that no man ought to be in a worse condition than his neighbour , in respect to such eligibility ; and that all disabilities , therefore , which fetter it , are an injury to the State , and a tyranny to the People . Sir ...
... civil office ; that no man ought to be in a worse condition than his neighbour , in respect to such eligibility ; and that all disabilities , therefore , which fetter it , are an injury to the State , and a tyranny to the People . Sir ...
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... civil and political , of the British Constitution . " Sir , I have paid to the construction of this Treaty a most unprejudiced , though most anxious , attention . It deserves such attention from the House , not merely from the immense ...
... civil and political , of the British Constitution . " Sir , I have paid to the construction of this Treaty a most unprejudiced , though most anxious , attention . It deserves such attention from the House , not merely from the immense ...
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Page 112 - First, when the conduct of the Catholics shall be such as to make it safe for the Government to admit them to the participation of the privileges granted to those of the Established...
Page 88 - Second : and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 42 - The religion of the Spanish nation is, and shall be perpetually, the Roman Catholic, the only true religion. The nation protects it by wise and just laws, and prohibits the exercise of any other.
Page 130 - Parva metu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit...
Page 95 - II ; and shall be put in possession by order of the Government of such of them as are in the king's hands, or the hands of his tenants, without being put to any suit or trouble therein...
Page 117 - On the other hand, should the catholics be " sensible of the benefit they possess, by having so " many characters of eminence pledged not to embark " in the service of government, except on the terms " of the catholic privileges being obtained...
Page 34 - Itaque nemo cuiuscumque gradus et conditionis praedicta Opera damnata atque proscripta, quocumque loco, et quocumque idiomate, aut in posterum edere, aut edita legere, vel retinere audeat, sed locorum Ordinariis, aut haereticae pravitatis Inquisitoribus ea tradere teneatur, sub poenis in Indice librorum vetitorum indictis.
Page 108 - As far as the Laws of Great Britain permit, which Laws prohibit absolutely all Popish Hierarchy in any of the Dominions belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, and can only admit of a Toleration of the Exercise of that Religion...
Page 108 - His Britannic majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada, he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Page 113 - ... these events take place, it is obvious that such a • question may be agitated in an united, imperial parliament, with much greater safety, than it could be in a separate legislature. In the second place, I think it certain that, even for whatever period it may be thought necessary, after the union, to withhold from the catholics the enjoyment of those advantages, many of the objections which at present arise out of their situation would be removed, if the protestant legislature were no longer...