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Page 58 - ... heredes tamen successoresque sui cuique liberi, et nullum testamentum. si liberi non sunt, proximus gradus in possessione fratres, patrui, avunculi.
Page 446 - The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination "that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only.
Page 37 - That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to direct...
Page 243 - Political economy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects : first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or, more properly, to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves ; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services. It proposes to enrich both the people and the sovereign.
Page 69 - ... merely is given to the husband ; the wife has an allowance for pin-money during the marriage, and a rent-charge or annuity by way of jointure for her life, in case she should survive her husband. Subject to this jointure, and to the payment of such sums as may be agreed on for the portions...
Page 529 - ... there has never been an instance in the history of the country where the representatives of such industries, who have enjoyed protection for a long series of years, have been willing to submit to a reduction of the tariff, or have voluntarily proposed it. But, on the contrary, their demands for still higher and higher duties are insatiable and never intermitted.
Page 67 - It may, therefore, be safely affirmed that Primogeniture, as it prevails in England, has not its root in popular sentiment, or in the sentiment of any large class, except the landed aristocracy and those who are struggling to enter its ranks. By the great majority of this class, embracing the whole nobility, the squires of England, the lairds of Scotland, and the Irish gentry of every degree, Primogeniture is accepted almost as a fundamental law of nature, to which the practice of entails only gives...
Page 63 - Children grew disobedient when they knew they could not be set aside: farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants...
Page 134 - ... girls — two and sometimes three generations — are herded promiscuously ; where every operation of the toilette, and of nature — dressings, undressings, births, deaths — is performed by each within the sight or hearing of all ; where children of both sexes, to as high an age as...