Speech on Conciliation with AmericaGinn, 1897 - 152 страници |
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... judges holding office during his pleasure should be paid by the crown : the colonists , unable to obtain redress through the regular government , organized committees of cor- respondence which bound the whole country together in common ...
... judges holding office during his pleasure should be paid by the crown : the colonists , unable to obtain redress through the regular government , organized committees of cor- respondence which bound the whole country together in common ...
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... judge in her own cause . ( 34 29-35 18 ) 4. The attempts at criminal punishment have not proved expedient ( 35 19-21 ) ; for a . Though rebellion has been declared in Massachusetts , it has not been proceeded against as such . ( 35 22 ...
... judge in her own cause . ( 34 29-35 18 ) 4. The attempts at criminal punishment have not proved expedient ( 35 19-21 ) ; for a . Though rebellion has been declared in Massachusetts , it has not been proceeded against as such . ( 35 22 ...
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... judge . Sir , Parliament having an enlarged view of objects , made , during this interval , more frequent changes in their 30 sentiments and their conduct than could be justified in a particular person upon the contracted scale of ...
... judge . Sir , Parliament having an enlarged view of objects , made , during this interval , more frequent changes in their 30 sentiments and their conduct than could be justified in a particular person upon the contracted scale of ...
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... judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they antici- pate the evil and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle . They augur misgovernment 15 at a distance and snuff the ...
... judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they antici- pate the evil and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle . They augur misgovernment 15 at a distance and snuff the ...
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... judges , 25 without executive magistrates . How long it will continue in this state , or what may arise out of this unheard - of situa- tion , how can the wisest of us conjecture ? Our late experi- ence has taught us that many of those ...
... judges , 25 without executive magistrates . How long it will continue in this state , or what may arise out of this unheard - of situa- tion , how can the wisest of us conjecture ? Our late experi- ence has taught us that many of those ...
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Страница 71 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Страница liii - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Страница 17 - 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.
Страница 87 - AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Страница 37 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do.
Страница 19 - ... and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Страница 107 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Страница 16 - Straits — while 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.* Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Страница 72 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Страница 73 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.