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... privilege ; the Commons , for the final sovereignty of the people . The one is for the most part heredi- tary , and often continues without radical change during long periods of time ; the other is the direct representative of the ...
... privilege ; the Commons , for the final sovereignty of the people . The one is for the most part heredi- tary , and often continues without radical change during long periods of time ; the other is the direct representative of the ...
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... privilege of granting money as a dry point of fact , and to prove that the right had been acknowledged in ancient parchments and blind usages to reside in a certain body 35 called a House of Commons . They went much farther ; they ...
... privilege of granting money as a dry point of fact , and to prove that the right had been acknowledged in ancient parchments and blind usages to reside in a certain body 35 called a House of Commons . They went much farther ; they ...
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... privilege . Not seeing there , that freedom , as in countries where it is a common blessing and as broad and general as the air , may be united with much abject toil , with great 20 misery , with all the exterior of servitude ; liberty ...
... privilege . Not seeing there , that freedom , as in countries where it is a common blessing and as broad and general as the air , may be united with much abject toil , with great 20 misery , with all the exterior of servitude ; liberty ...
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... privileges . It would be no less impracticable to think of wholly annihilating the popular assemblies in which these lawyers sit . The army , by which we must govern in their place , would be far more chargeable to us , not quite so ...
... privileges . It would be no less impracticable to think of wholly annihilating the popular assemblies in which these lawyers sit . The army , by which we must govern in their place , would be far more chargeable to us , not quite so ...
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... privilege seems rather , ex vi termini , to imply a superior power ; for to talk of the 15 privileges of a state or of a person who has no superior is hardly any better than speaking nonsense . Now , in such unfortunate quarrels among ...
... privilege seems rather , ex vi termini , to imply a superior power ; for to talk of the 15 privileges of a state or of a person who has no superior is hardly any better than speaking nonsense . Now , in such unfortunate quarrels among ...
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Page 15 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 15 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 73 - ... directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master...
Page 21 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves.
Page 15 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, — I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Page 22 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 15 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Straits ; — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 32 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 16 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 24 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources — of descent, of form of government, of religion in the Northern Provinces, of manners in the Southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.