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... whole of our dominions , and a just sense of their true bearings and relations . After all its reductions , the British empire is still vast and various . After all the reductions of the House of Commons ( stripped as we are of our ...
... whole of our dominions , and a just sense of their true bearings and relations . After all its reductions , the British empire is still vast and various . After all the reductions of the House of Commons ( stripped as we are of our ...
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... whole hereditary revenue of the kingdom of Ireland . Strange as this scheme of conduct in ministry is , and inconsistent with all just policy , it is still true to itself , and faithful to its own perverted order . Those who are ...
... whole hereditary revenue of the kingdom of Ireland . Strange as this scheme of conduct in ministry is , and inconsistent with all just policy , it is still true to itself , and faithful to its own perverted order . Those who are ...
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... whole tenor of the right honourable gentleman's argument is . consonant to the nature of his policy . The system of concealment is fostered by a system of falsehood . False facts , false colours , false names of persons and things , are ...
... whole tenor of the right honourable gentleman's argument is . consonant to the nature of his policy . The system of concealment is fostered by a system of falsehood . False facts , false colours , false names of persons and things , are ...
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... whole of these four capitals , amounting to four millions four hundred and forty thousand pounds , produced at their several rates , annuitics amounting to six hundred and twenty - three thousand pounds a year ; a good deal more than ...
... whole of these four capitals , amounting to four millions four hundred and forty thousand pounds , produced at their several rates , annuitics amounting to six hundred and twenty - three thousand pounds a year ; a good deal more than ...
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... whole transaction is under a false colour and false names . The litigation is not , nor ever has been , between their rapacity and his hoarded riches . No ; it is between him and them combining and confederating on one side , and the ...
... whole transaction is under a false colour and false names . The litigation is not , nor ever has been , between their rapacity and his hoarded riches . No ; it is between him and them combining and confederating on one side , and the ...
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Page 172 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 220 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour.
Page 445 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Page 41 - ... compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 178 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete.
Page 229 - ... should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe, and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country, who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Page 230 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 173 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 198 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.