Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best Articles in that Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time, Volumes 5-6Baudry's European Library, 1835 |
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perity of his state . This interest , though for a while it may be concealed from his eyes , or overruled by ... interests of the country , in its relations to foreign states , can only be lost sight of or thwarted during casual ...
perity of his state . This interest , though for a while it may be concealed from his eyes , or overruled by ... interests of the country , in its relations to foreign states , can only be lost sight of or thwarted during casual ...
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... interest is much more identified with that of their feudal lords , than with that of a standing army of regular forces . As society advances in refinement , and the arts of peace are developed , men of the lower orders assemble , and ...
... interest is much more identified with that of their feudal lords , than with that of a standing army of regular forces . As society advances in refinement , and the arts of peace are developed , men of the lower orders assemble , and ...
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... interest and sympathy ; and least of all could it be done in a nation already accustomed to the duties and enjoyments of freedom , and regard- ing the safe and honourable struggles it is constantly obliged to maintain in its defence ...
... interest and sympathy ; and least of all could it be done in a nation already accustomed to the duties and enjoyments of freedom , and regard- ing the safe and honourable struggles it is constantly obliged to maintain in its defence ...
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... interests of the country have ever been sacrificed to a vindictive desire to mortify or humble a rival party ... interest than in the former ; since it is only by such means that a system that is radically vicious can be exploded ...
... interests of the country have ever been sacrificed to a vindictive desire to mortify or humble a rival party ... interest than in the former ; since it is only by such means that a system that is radically vicious can be exploded ...
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... interests of their order , and , indeed , to the general interests of the community , than is wholesome for the common ... interest directed : thus evincing themselves apt scholars in the great school of expedients , whereof Mr. Pitt was ...
... interests of their order , and , indeed , to the general interests of the community , than is wholesome for the common ... interest directed : thus evincing themselves apt scholars in the great school of expedients , whereof Mr. Pitt was ...
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Page 382 - Britain, as being inseparably united and annexed thereunto ; 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 Kingdom and people of Ireland.
Page 382 - 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.
Page 98 - But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.
Page 404 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them...
Page 27 - ... sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one.
Page 85 - Such a generous contention for power, on such manly and honourable maxims, will easily be distinguished from the mean and interested struggle for place and emolument. The very style of such persons will serve to discriminate them from those numberless impostors, who have deluded the ignorant with professions incompatible with human practice, and have afterwards incensed them by practices below the level of vulgar rectitude.
Page 37 - It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries.
Page 156 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom, and that we shall be ready to consent to such an act of parliament as upon mature deliberation shall be offered to us for the full granting that indulgence.
Page 89 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them abundantly with what they have occasion for, and they accommodate him as amply with what he has occasion for, and a general plenty diffuses itself through...
Page 382 - America, or relates thereto it has been declared, 'that the King and Parliament of Great Britain will not impose any duty, tax, or assessment whatever, payable in any of His Majesty's colonies, provinces, and plantations in North America or the West Indies, except only such duties as it may be expedient to impose for the regulation of commerce...