Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. A journey to the Western islands of ScotlandLuke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... probably prove " effectual for rescuing me from the odium of the publick , and " in some measure restoring my character to the honour it had " lost , I was then disposed to believe . His repeated acts of friend- " ship to me on former ...
... probably prove " effectual for rescuing me from the odium of the publick , and " in some measure restoring my character to the honour it had " lost , I was then disposed to believe . His repeated acts of friend- " ship to me on former ...
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... probably look back upon the di- " versions and occupations of this world with the " same contempt we do now on our tops and hobby- " horses , and with the same surprise that they could ever so much entertain or engage us . " 66 I would ...
... probably look back upon the di- " versions and occupations of this world with the " same contempt we do now on our tops and hobby- " horses , and with the same surprise that they could ever so much entertain or engage us . " 66 I would ...
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... probably from their first institution , but certainly , as their records inform us , from the 23d of Elizabeth , when they expelled a member for derogating from their pri- vileges . It may perhaps be doubted , whether it was ori ...
... probably from their first institution , but certainly , as their records inform us , from the 23d of Elizabeth , when they expelled a member for derogating from their pri- vileges . It may perhaps be doubted , whether it was ori ...
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... probably judged , that not being bound to the forms of law , they might treat these as felons , whose crimes were in their opinion equivalent to felony ; and that as a known felon could not be chosen , a man so like a felon , that he ...
... probably judged , that not being bound to the forms of law , they might treat these as felons , whose crimes were in their opinion equivalent to felony ; and that as a known felon could not be chosen , a man so like a felon , that he ...
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... probably right , and that if it be wrong it is of little consequence , since a like case cannot easily occur ; that expulsions are very rare , and if they should , by unbounded insolence of faction , become more frequent , the electors ...
... probably right , and that if it be wrong it is of little consequence , since a like case cannot easily occur ; that expulsions are very rare , and if they should , by unbounded insolence of faction , become more frequent , the electors ...
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204 페이지 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
71 페이지 - 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.
177 페이지 - British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
177 페이지 - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures...
174 페이지 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
390 페이지 - ... has not made the experiment, or who is not accustomed to require rigorous accuracy from himself, will scarcely believe how much a few hours take from certainty of knowledge, and distinctness of imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea.
273 페이지 - We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life. The clans retain little now of their original character, their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and the reverence for their chiefs abated.
176 페이지 - That, by such emigration, they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost, any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
251 페이지 - We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to fear; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens...
352 페이지 - ... always feel their own ignorance. They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others : and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves ; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false. Mr. Boswell was very diligent in his inquiries ; and the result of his investigations was, that the answer to the second question was commonly such as nullified the answer to the first.