The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches of the Most Distinguished English, Irish, and Scotch Parliamentary Speakers, from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I. to the Present Time, Volume 2Thomas Kirk, 1809 |
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... lordships , to consider the fatal effects which may arise in such a conjuncture as the present , either from an open ... lordships to do ten times worse ? and that I am clearly convinced would be the case , if your lordships were obliged ...
... lordships , to consider the fatal effects which may arise in such a conjuncture as the present , either from an open ... lordships to do ten times worse ? and that I am clearly convinced would be the case , if your lordships were obliged ...
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... lordships ' indulgence . The constitution of this country has been openly invaded in fact ; and I have heard with horror and astonishment , that very invasion defended upon principle . What is this mysterious power , undefined by law ...
... lordships ' indulgence . The constitution of this country has been openly invaded in fact ; and I have heard with horror and astonishment , that very invasion defended upon principle . What is this mysterious power , undefined by law ...
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... lordship's doctrine be well founded , we must renounce all those political maxims by which our understandings have hitherto been directed ; and even the first elements of learning taught us when we were school - boys . My lords , we ...
... lordship's doctrine be well founded , we must renounce all those political maxims by which our understandings have hitherto been directed ; and even the first elements of learning taught us when we were school - boys . My lords , we ...
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... lordships ' resolution ; but that it violates the spirit of the constitution , will , I think , be disputed by no man who has heard this day's debate , and who wishes well to the freedom of his country ; yet , if we are to believe the ...
... lordships ' resolution ; but that it violates the spirit of the constitution , will , I think , be disputed by no man who has heard this day's debate , and who wishes well to the freedom of his country ; yet , if we are to believe the ...
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... lordships to reconcile that matter between themselves , I shall only say , that be- fore we have enquired , we cannot be provided with ma- terials ; consequently , at present we are not prepared for a conference . It is possible , my ...
... lordships to reconcile that matter between themselves , I shall only say , that be- fore we have enquired , we cannot be provided with ma- terials ; consequently , at present we are not prepared for a conference . It is possible , my ...
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Halaman 346 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Halaman 299 - I cannot alter the nature of man. 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...
Halaman 292 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Halaman 11 - House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented by any knight of the shire, in any county in this kingdom? Would to God that respectable representation was augmented to a greater number! Or will you tell him that he is represented by any representative of a borough ? a borough which, perhaps, its own representatives never saw! This is what is called the rotten part of the constitution.
Halaman 296 - ... their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made pack-horses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Halaman 299 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Halaman 300 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Halaman 297 - 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, our opprobrium for their glory; and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom?
Halaman 10 - They are the subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural rights of mankind and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen ; equally bound by its laws, and equally participating in the constitution of this free country. The Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England.
Halaman 122 - that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.