Novum Organon Parliamentarium, Or A New Catechism for St. Stephen's |
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Novum Organon Parliamentarium: Or A New Catechism for St. StephenGÇÖs (1814) J. Barfield No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 6 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
Page 142 - Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Page 23 - ... no interference of the legislature with the freedom of trade, or with the perfect liberty of every individual to dispose of his time and of his labour, in the way and on the terms which he may judge most conducive to his own interest, can take place, without violating general principles of the first importance to the prosperity and happiness of the community...
Page 194 - Advancing at the head of their victorious forces, each upon his own side, the Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, and the Crown Prince of Sweden, met and greeted each other in the great square of the city, where they were soon joined by the Emperor of Austria.
Page 5 - Exegi monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum.
Page 14 - Highness, whether, under all the circumstances of the case, it be fit and proper, that the intercourse between the Princess of Wales, and her daughter, the Princess Charlotte, should continue to be subject to...
Page 12 - O, reason not the need ! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow" not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's.
Page 186 - Blucher, upon learning this, new direction of the French army, although they could not anticipate from it any unfavourable issue to the contest, felt the necessity of making a corresponding change in their own arrangements. They determined to follow close in the rear of Buonaparte, and to be ready to act against him wherever he might be found. With this view they repassed the Saale and the Elster, and were preparing to gain the other side of the Elbe, when they learned that a complete change was...
Page 21 - ... of July ; he told me he ha'd hoped the prorogation of parliament would have taken place before that time, but would advise the delay of a week or ten days, in order that a new bill might be introduced, which I accordingly moved the same evening; and which, after some opposition, passed into a law. I mention these circumstances to enable the House to form a judgment of the real sentiments of Mr Pitt, independent of the mere recollection of myself or any other person, which certainly may be erroneous....
Page 30 - That the pretensions to the allowance of universal uncontrolled freedom of action to every individual founded upon the same delusive theoretical principles which fostered the French Revolution, are wholly inapplicable to the insular situation of this Kingdom...