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... sort of rights and privileges ; the more ineffi- cacious is the power of the monarch ; and the more feeble and easily decayed is the organi- sation of the government , & c . ' ( Brougham's Inquiry into the Colonial Policy of the ...
... sort of rights and privileges ; the more ineffi- cacious is the power of the monarch ; and the more feeble and easily decayed is the organi- sation of the government , & c . ' ( Brougham's Inquiry into the Colonial Policy of the ...
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... sort of conflict , like all short - sighted passions , must see its objects dis- tinct and near at hand . The passions of the lower order are hungry and impatient . Speculative plunder ; contingent spoil ; future , long - adjourned ...
... sort of conflict , like all short - sighted passions , must see its objects dis- tinct and near at hand . The passions of the lower order are hungry and impatient . Speculative plunder ; contingent spoil ; future , long - adjourned ...
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... sort , with the authority of a magistrate . When the affairs of the nation are distracted , private people are , by the spirit of that law , justified in step- ping a little out of their ordinary sphere . They enjoy a pri- vilege , of ...
... sort , with the authority of a magistrate . When the affairs of the nation are distracted , private people are , by the spirit of that law , justified in step- ping a little out of their ordinary sphere . They enjoy a pri- vilege , of ...
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... sort of natural corrective of folly and ignorance . I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong . They have been so , frequently and outrage- ously , both in other countries and in this . But I do say , that ...
... sort of natural corrective of folly and ignorance . I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong . They have been so , frequently and outrage- ously , both in other countries and in this . But I do say , that ...
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... sort with those under which we laboured formerly ; not precisely those which we bore from the Tudors , or vindicated on the Stuarts . A great change has taken place in the affairs of this country . For in the silent lapse of events as ...
... sort with those under which we laboured formerly ; not precisely those which we bore from the Tudors , or vindicated on the Stuarts . A great change has taken place in the affairs of this country . For in the silent lapse of events as ...
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Page 177 - 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 232 - Do you imagine then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply which gives you your army? or that it is the mutiny bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No ! surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Page 309 - Colony, for contributing their proportion to the Common Defence (such proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court or General Assembly of such Province or Colony and disposable by Parliament) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the Civil Government and the administration of Justice...
Page 182 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles, and such will be all masters of .slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Page 86 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 145 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 233 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 173 - Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough...
Page 168 - I am sensible that a good deal more is still to be done. Indeed, sir, to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and precise judgment, I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after...
Page 169 - Whilst we spend our time in deliberating on the mode of governing Two Millions, we shall find we have Millions more to manage. Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood, than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.