A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United States of America: In Six Lectures |
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... persons of the middle ranks of English society , sober , industrious , devout , and strictly moral . That system of local govern- ment in parishes and towns , which originated with our Saxon ancestors , and lies at the foundation of ...
... persons of the middle ranks of English society , sober , industrious , devout , and strictly moral . That system of local govern- ment in parishes and towns , which originated with our Saxon ancestors , and lies at the foundation of ...
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... persons embarked for New England . The British government allowed the New England colonies to enjoy a large share of political independence , either under governors or chartered companies , or laws framed in general conformity with ...
... persons embarked for New England . The British government allowed the New England colonies to enjoy a large share of political independence , either under governors or chartered companies , or laws framed in general conformity with ...
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... of America , during its colonization by persons of all nations , conditions , and characters , scat- tered over its wide domain , dwellers often in solitary independence . But when the waste lands shall be nearly LECTURE I. 25.
... of America , during its colonization by persons of all nations , conditions , and characters , scat- tered over its wide domain , dwellers often in solitary independence . But when the waste lands shall be nearly LECTURE I. 25.
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... chosen by the people ; but the senate is appointed by elected bodies . No person is eligible as a representative who is not twenty - five years old and resident in the state in D which he is chosen , and who has not been LECTURE II . 33.
... chosen by the people ; but the senate is appointed by elected bodies . No person is eligible as a representative who is not twenty - five years old and resident in the state in D which he is chosen , and who has not been LECTURE II . 33.
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... persons " who get their living by daily begging and fraud . These must be persons of despe- rate fortune and of abject poverty . There is in the same city a very wealthy class , and between the two extremes there is every intermediate ...
... persons " who get their living by daily begging and fraud . These must be persons of despe- rate fortune and of abject poverty . There is in the same city a very wealthy class , and between the two extremes there is every intermediate ...
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Page 140 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Page 10 - Was it the winter's storm, beating upon the houseless heads of women and children ; was it hard labor and spare meals ; was it disease ; was it the tomahawk ; was it the deep malady of a blighted hope- a ruined enterprise, and a broken heart, aching in its last moments, at the recollection of the loved and left beyond the sea ; was it some, or all of these united, that hurried this forsaken company to their melancholy fate...
Page 119 - I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire selfgovernment and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.
Page 178 - Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth ! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 10 - ... without shelter : without means : surrounded by hostile tribes. Shut now the volume of history, and tell me, on any principle of human probability, what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers. Tell me, man of military science ! in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes enumerated within the early limits of New England ? Tell me, politician ! how long did the shadow of a colony, on which your conventions and treaties had not smiled, languish on the distant...
Page 9 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc. Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 46 - States, and as the facility and excess of law-making seem to be the diseases to which our governments are most liable, it is not impossible that this part of the Constitution may be more convenient in practice than it appears to many in contemplation.
Page 64 - My son, fear thou the LORD and the king : and meddle not with them that are given to change...
Page 58 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitution.
Page 153 - It is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.