Parliamentary speeches from 1761 to 1802William Hazlitt Prior and Dunning, 1810 |
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... REIGN OF CHARLES I. TO THE PRESENT TIME . WITH NOTES , BIOGRAPHICAL , CRITICAL , AND EXPLANATORY . BY WILLIAM HAZLITT . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . NEW - YORK CBLISHED BY PRION AND DUNNING , BOOKSELLERS . NO . 111 , WATER - STREET ...
... REIGN OF CHARLES I. TO THE PRESENT TIME . WITH NOTES , BIOGRAPHICAL , CRITICAL , AND EXPLANATORY . BY WILLIAM HAZLITT . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . NEW - YORK CBLISHED BY PRION AND DUNNING , BOOKSELLERS . NO . 111 , WATER - STREET ...
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... reign might be marked with another felicity ; the restor- ing of the blessings of peace to my people , and putting an end to the calamities of war , under which so great VOL . II . 1 a part of Europe suffers . But though overtures were ...
... reign might be marked with another felicity ; the restor- ing of the blessings of peace to my people , and putting an end to the calamities of war , under which so great VOL . II . 1 a part of Europe suffers . But though overtures were ...
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... reign of Henry VIII . the other in that of Charles II . He then quoted the acts , and desired they might be read ; which being done , he said : When I proposed to tax America , I asked the house , if any gentleman would object to the ...
... reign of Henry VIII . the other in that of Charles II . He then quoted the acts , and desired they might be read ; which being done , he said : When I proposed to tax America , I asked the house , if any gentleman would object to the ...
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... reigns , parliaments were ashamed of tax- ing people without their consent , and allowed them repre- sentatives . Why did the gentleman confine himself to Chester and Durham ? He might have taken a higher example in Wales ; Wales , that ...
... reigns , parliaments were ashamed of tax- ing people without their consent , and allowed them repre- sentatives . Why did the gentleman confine himself to Chester and Durham ? He might have taken a higher example in Wales ; Wales , that ...
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... reign of Charles II . who , for certain crimes and mis- demeanours , was considered not only as an improper per- son to officiate for the present , but for ever precluded and incapacitated to serve in this house . The other was that of ...
... reign of Charles II . who , for certain crimes and mis- demeanours , was considered not only as an improper per- son to officiate for the present , but for ever precluded and incapacitated to serve in this house . The other was that of ...
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283 페이지 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences, — a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
342 페이지 - 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.
285 페이지 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
295 페이지 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
295 페이지 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
11 페이지 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever ; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
286 페이지 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
288 페이지 - 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.
294 페이지 - The Church of England, too, was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world, and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty.
11 페이지 - There is an idea in some, that the colonies are virtually represented in this House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here...