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MY LORD , BUT so surprising an event was it in an English house of commons ,
to have a majority of one , - - ONE , in favour of the people , that silly men burst
into raptures at the virtue of the house ; and factious men echoed this nonsense
till ...
MY LORD , BUT so surprising an event was it in an English house of commons ,
to have a majority of one , - - ONE , in favour of the people , that silly men burst
into raptures at the virtue of the house ; and factious men echoed this nonsense
till ...
Halaman 71
... although those servants should have openly taken bribes to betray their
masters , or had let thieves into the house , or had themselves been the robbers
of it : 1 and by a third effort of uncommon virtue , it extended this privation to six
years of ...
... although those servants should have openly taken bribes to betray their
masters , or had let thieves into the house , or had themselves been the robbers
of it : 1 and by a third effort of uncommon virtue , it extended this privation to six
years of ...
Halaman 90
Let us now return to that virtue of the house of commons we were speaking of .
Fits of virtue , are no novelties . We had them above twenty years ago . The
house of that day supported Lord North , through thick and thin , sparing neither
money ...
Let us now return to that virtue of the house of commons we were speaking of .
Fits of virtue , are no novelties . We had them above twenty years ago . The
house of that day supported Lord North , through thick and thin , sparing neither
money ...
Halaman 91
Where was this parlia . mentary virtue , when the vices of vile factions and their
vile agent , against every interest of the state , against the constitution of their own
country , and the liberties of mankind , plunged us into the war ? Where was this ...
Where was this parlia . mentary virtue , when the vices of vile factions and their
vile agent , against every interest of the state , against the constitution of their own
country , and the liberties of mankind , plunged us into the war ? Where was this ...
Halaman 136
Have virtue and purity raised any man to power , unless to be duped and
betrayed ? Those childish imaginations with which it is in vain to reason , we
must catch if we can with parables and similitudes . Were a man of war ' s hull
worm - eaten ...
Have virtue and purity raised any man to power , unless to be duped and
betrayed ? Those childish imaginations with which it is in vain to reason , we
must catch if we can with parables and similitudes . Were a man of war ' s hull
worm - eaten ...
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Halaman 106 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Halaman 61 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength?
Halaman 114 - ... his charitable toils for the relief of India, did not forget the poor rotten constitution of his native country. For her, he did not disdain to stoop to the trade of a wholesale upholsterer for this house, to furnish it not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach some other houses, but with real, solid, living patterns of true modern virtue.
Halaman 60 - our children;" but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone. Is it because the natural resistance of things, and the various mutations of time...
Halaman 95 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Halaman 14 - States and a corresponding amendment of the Constitution, be applied in time of peace to rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education and other great objects within each State. In time of war, if injustice by ourselves or others must sometimes produce war, increased as the same revenue will be...
Halaman 116 - Eastern harlot ; which so many of the people, so many of the nobles of tlns land, had drained to the very dregs. Do you think that no reckoning was to follow this lewd debauch? that no payment was to be demanded for this riot of public drunkenness, and national prostitution ? Here ! you have it, here, before you.
Halaman 66 - ... convicted, shall be subject and liable to such pains and penalties, as by any law now in force persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury are subject and liable to.
Halaman 14 - ... the revenue thereby liberated may, by a just repartition among the states, and a corresponding amendment of the constitution, be applied, in time of peace, to rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects within each state.
Halaman 158 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Informasi bibliografi
| Judul | The State of the Nation: In a Series of Letters to His Grace, the Duke of Bedford Volume 70 dari Grey tracts |
| Pengarang | John Cartwright |
| Penerbit | B. Flower, 1805 |
| Asli dari | Perpustakaan Umum New York |
| Didigitalkan | 30 Okt 2007 |
| Tebal | 173 halaman |
| Ekspor Kutipan | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |