Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Том 4Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 |
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... influences must almost unavoidably impart to political disquisitions . In what I now reprint I have naturally been anxious to select what seemed least liable to this objection : and though I cannot flatter my- self that a tone of ...
... influences must almost unavoidably impart to political disquisitions . In what I now reprint I have naturally been anxious to select what seemed least liable to this objection : and though I cannot flatter my- self that a tone of ...
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... influence ! " - Such is the sum of Mr. Leckie's publication ; of which , as a curious specimen of the infinite diversity of human opinions and endowments , and of the license of political speculation that is still occasionally indulged ...
... influence ! " - Such is the sum of Mr. Leckie's publication ; of which , as a curious specimen of the infinite diversity of human opinions and endowments , and of the license of political speculation that is still occasionally indulged ...
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... influence would thus be tempted to aspire to a precarious Sovereignty ; and while the in- ferior persons of the community would be opposed to each other as adherents of the respective pretenders , not only would all care of the general ...
... influence would thus be tempted to aspire to a precarious Sovereignty ; and while the in- ferior persons of the community would be opposed to each other as adherents of the respective pretenders , not only would all care of the general ...
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... influence or authority in his councils ; and his voice or opinion therefore , considered naturally and in itself , must be of less value or intrinsic authority than that of any other person in high office under him : And when it is ...
... influence or authority in his councils ; and his voice or opinion therefore , considered naturally and in itself , must be of less value or intrinsic authority than that of any other person in high office under him : And when it is ...
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... all the branches of the Legislature is ultimately vested . The Executive , therefore , has its chief Ministers in that House , and exerts in that place all the influence MEANS THE KING AND HIS MINISTERS . 25 which is.
... all the branches of the Legislature is ultimately vested . The Executive , therefore , has its chief Ministers in that House , and exerts in that place all the influence MEANS THE KING AND HIS MINISTERS . 25 which is.
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Страница 259 - Let justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it ; for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live therefore the lives yourselves you would have the people live, and then shall you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor.
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Страница 261 - ... neither would he compare the friendship between him and them to a Chain, for the rain might sometimes rust it, or a tree might fall and break it; but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with the Christians, and the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts.
Страница 216 - It was a rainy Sunday in the gloomy month of November. I had been detained, in the course of a journey, by a slight indisposition, from which I was recovering; but was still feverish, and obliged to keep within doors all day, in an inn of the small town of Derby. A wet Sunday in a country inn! — whoever has had the luck to experience one can alone judge of my situation.