Annual Register, Volume 103Edmund Burke 1862 - History |
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Page 70
... appeared that there was a surplus of 2,000,000l . in round numbers . Although doubts had been expressed concerning this surplus , he believed them to be utterly unfounded . Lord Gran- ville then proceeded to explain the various details ...
... appeared that there was a surplus of 2,000,000l . in round numbers . Although doubts had been expressed concerning this surplus , he believed them to be utterly unfounded . Lord Gran- ville then proceeded to explain the various details ...
Page 77
... ; nevertheless , if it appeared to the House that an inquiry was desirable , he should not oppose the motion . The motion was then agreed to . - GOOD deal of interesting dis- have been greater had England . ] [ 77 HISTORY .
... ; nevertheless , if it appeared to the House that an inquiry was desirable , he should not oppose the motion . The motion was then agreed to . - GOOD deal of interesting dis- have been greater had England . ] [ 77 HISTORY .
Page 108
... appeared so essential to the successful ac- complishment of Italian unity , produced , at first , a feeling al- most of consternation among the well - wishers to that cause . some circles , there was a senti- ment of regret , as if each ...
... appeared so essential to the successful ac- complishment of Italian unity , produced , at first , a feeling al- most of consternation among the well - wishers to that cause . some circles , there was a senti- ment of regret , as if each ...
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... appeared to forget that to subjects in rebellion no national character could properly belong . But the British Government in- formed Mr. Stratford Canning that the character of belligerency was not so much a principle as a fact ; that a ...
... appeared to forget that to subjects in rebellion no national character could properly belong . But the British Government in- formed Mr. Stratford Canning that the character of belligerency was not so much a principle as a fact ; that a ...
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... appeared on the 14th of May , an- nouncing the neutrality of the Bri- tish Government , and warning all subjects of the Queen to be strictly neutral also . It prohibited them to enlist for sea or land service on either side , to supply ...
... appeared on the 14th of May , an- nouncing the neutrality of the Bri- tish Government , and warning all subjects of the Queen to be strictly neutral also . It prohibited them to enlist for sea or land service on either side , to supply ...
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Page 212 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 213 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 212 - I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules; and while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed than to violate any of them trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.
Page 217 - We therefore have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation. " And we do hereby strictly charge and command all our loving subjects...
Page 205 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 214 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend
Page 212 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak ; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
Page 213 - States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.
Page 210 - ... I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 259 - Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable...