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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... thing to the prejudice or oppres- sion of the soldiery . When civilisation has made a little farther progress , a number of the leaders of the army , or their descendants , acquire landed property , and associate together , not merely ...
... thing to the prejudice or oppres- sion of the soldiery . When civilisation has made a little farther progress , a number of the leaders of the army , or their descendants , acquire landed property , and associate together , not merely ...
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... thing which he pleases for the adoption of that executive council ; and his suggestions must at all times be more ... things ; nor comprehend how the royal authority is rendered nugatory and subordinate , merely by requiring it to have ...
... thing which he pleases for the adoption of that executive council ; and his suggestions must at all times be more ... things ; nor comprehend how the royal authority is rendered nugatory and subordinate , merely by requiring it to have ...
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... things which he approves - in all things that are indifferent -and even in some things which he partly disapproves , provided they neither touch the honour and vital interests of the country , nor imply any breach of the ordinary rules ...
... things which he approves - in all things that are indifferent -and even in some things which he partly disapproves , provided they neither touch the honour and vital interests of the country , nor imply any breach of the ordinary rules ...
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... things , the frequent in- terference of the people is necessary to our liberties . We shall afterwards advert to the ... thing very formidable to a tyrant in the physical force of six or seven hundred gentlemen , even if we add to the ...
... things , the frequent in- terference of the people is necessary to our liberties . We shall afterwards advert to the ... thing very formidable to a tyrant in the physical force of six or seven hundred gentlemen , even if we add to the ...
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... things which he would say to two or three hundred , in the same plain and rational manner , seems difficult to conceive ... thing though , even then , that matter would . * When Alcibiades was making his first speech before them , it is ...
... things which he would say to two or three hundred , in the same plain and rational manner , seems difficult to conceive ... thing though , even then , that matter would . * When Alcibiades was making his first speech before them , it is ...
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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...