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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... political subject , by a reference to certain terms of art and abstract ideas , of which it is fair to suspect that they little understood the meaning and the force . Of these reasoners or declaimers , the former sect are undoubtedly ...
... political subject , by a reference to certain terms of art and abstract ideas , of which it is fair to suspect that they little understood the meaning and the force . Of these reasoners or declaimers , the former sect are undoubtedly ...
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... political improvement , we have not attained the utmost refinements of international policy , and have still to lament the many irregularities which continue to disturb the arrangement of the European commonwealth . It is not , then ...
... political improvement , we have not attained the utmost refinements of international policy , and have still to lament the many irregularities which continue to disturb the arrangement of the European commonwealth . It is not , then ...
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... political departments ; and the distin- guished men in the literary world . These make up , in the great book of politics , what may be called the chapter of accidents ; and it is a chapter which perpetually sets all the inferences and ...
... political departments ; and the distin- guished men in the literary world . These make up , in the great book of politics , what may be called the chapter of accidents ; and it is a chapter which perpetually sets all the inferences and ...
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... political philosophy as we might expect from this specimen , and from the nature of his former pursuits . We find him decidedly rejecting , as absurd , the narrow notions of mercantile policy which dictate commercial treaties , although ...
... political philosophy as we might expect from this specimen , and from the nature of his former pursuits . We find him decidedly rejecting , as absurd , the narrow notions of mercantile policy which dictate commercial treaties , although ...
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... political power , is apt to give rise . It happens , for- tunately indeed , that the same arrangements which most effectually ensure the peace of society against those disorders , are also , on the whole , the best calculated for the ...
... political power , is apt to give rise . It happens , for- tunately indeed , that the same arrangements which most effectually ensure the peace of society against those disorders , are also , on the whole , the best calculated for the ...
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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...