The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches of the Most Distinguished English, Irish, and Scotch Parliamentary Speakers, from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I. to the Present Time, Том 2Thomas Kirk, 1809 |
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... court , to start questions and hunt them down ; to wind and unwind the web of sophistry ; to pick out the threads , and untie every knot with scrupulous exactness ; to bandy logic with every pretender to a paradox ; to examine , to sift ...
... court , to start questions and hunt them down ; to wind and unwind the web of sophistry ; to pick out the threads , and untie every knot with scrupulous exactness ; to bandy logic with every pretender to a paradox ; to examine , to sift ...
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... court where it could be tried , nor to which there could be an appeal from their deci- sion . That wherever a court of justice is supreme , and their sentence final ( which he apprehended no man would dispute was the case of the house ...
... court where it could be tried , nor to which there could be an appeal from their deci- sion . That wherever a court of justice is supreme , and their sentence final ( which he apprehended no man would dispute was the case of the house ...
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... courts , the constitution had pro- vided no remedy . That if they wilfully determined wrong , it was iniquitous indeed , and in the highest de- gree detestible But it was a crime , of which no human tribunal could take cognizance , and ...
... courts , the constitution had pro- vided no remedy . That if they wilfully determined wrong , it was iniquitous indeed , and in the highest de- gree detestible But it was a crime , of which no human tribunal could take cognizance , and ...
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... court , every political society , must be vested with those powers and privileges which are necessary for performing the office to which they are appointed . It tells us also , that no court of justice can have a power inconsistent with ...
... court , every political society , must be vested with those powers and privileges which are necessary for performing the office to which they are appointed . It tells us also , that no court of justice can have a power inconsistent with ...
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... court of judicature where his cause was tried : -I mean the house of com- mons . With one party he was a patriot of the first mag- nitude with the other , the vilest incendiary . For my own part , I consider him merely and indifferently ...
... court of judicature where his cause was tried : -I mean the house of com- mons . With one party he was a patriot of the first mag- nitude with the other , the vilest incendiary . For my own part , I consider him merely and indifferently ...
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Страница 299 - I cannot alter the nature of man. 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...
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Страница 296 - ... their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made pack-horses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Страница 299 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Страница 300 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Страница 297 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength, our opprobrium for their glory; and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom?
Страница 10 - They are the subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural rights of mankind and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen ; equally bound by its laws, and equally participating in the constitution of this free country. The Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England.
Страница 122 - that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.