The American Review of History and Politics, and General Repository of Literature and State Papers, Volume 4Farrand and Nicholas., 1812 |
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... say the least of them , are not sur- passed in patriotism , integrity , and discernment by any others of that body ; who assisted at all the deliberations on the subject ; who have enjoyed the best possible opportunities of becoming VOL ...
... say the least of them , are not sur- passed in patriotism , integrity , and discernment by any others of that body ; who assisted at all the deliberations on the subject ; who have enjoyed the best possible opportunities of becoming VOL ...
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... say no more , wild and unwarrantable in the extreme : -To inculcate it , now , with respect to the war , would be not only hopeless and unjustifiable , but would tend to defeat the avowed purpose , the salvation of the country , by ...
... say no more , wild and unwarrantable in the extreme : -To inculcate it , now , with respect to the war , would be not only hopeless and unjustifiable , but would tend to defeat the avowed purpose , the salvation of the country , by ...
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... says this statesman in his letter to the sheriffs of Bristol , " I had not lived long enough to be little surprised at any thing , I should have been in some degree astonished at the rage of several gentlemen , who not satisfied with ...
... says this statesman in his letter to the sheriffs of Bristol , " I had not lived long enough to be little surprised at any thing , I should have been in some degree astonished at the rage of several gentlemen , who not satisfied with ...
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... say — war were that measure , our liberty of the press , our elective franchise , our entire scheme of freedom , would be mere sha- dows . On this hypothesis , the most stupid , or profligate , or ambitious faction which might , through ...
... say — war were that measure , our liberty of the press , our elective franchise , our entire scheme of freedom , would be mere sha- dows . On this hypothesis , the most stupid , or profligate , or ambitious faction which might , through ...
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... says Bolingbroke , " are abominable and inhuman , when they are backed by a full- ness of arbitrary power . But to hang up the tables of proscrip- tion , without the power of sending centurions to cut off every obnoxious head , is the ...
... says Bolingbroke , " are abominable and inhuman , when they are backed by a full- ness of arbitrary power . But to hang up the tables of proscrip- tion , without the power of sending centurions to cut off every obnoxious head , is the ...
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Page 139 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,...
Page 138 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page 347 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Page 139 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination : and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Page 138 - But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.
Page 347 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Page 347 - The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers. All of them find it for their interest to employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some advantage over their neighbours, and to purchase with a part of its produce, or what is the same thing, with the price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
Page 148 - Or else when by the Miscarriages of those in Authority, it is forfeited; upon the Forfeiture of their Rulers, or at the Determination of the Time set, it reverts to the Society, and the People have a Right to act as Supreme, and continue the Legislative in themselves, or erect a new Form, or under the old form place it in new hands, as they think good.
Page 346 - By opening a more extensive market for whatever part of the produce of their labour may exceed the home consumption, it encourages them to improve its productive powers, and to augment its annual produce to the utmost, and thereby to increase the real revenue and wealth of the society.
Page 147 - To conclude, the power that every individual gave the society when he entered into it can never revert to the individuals again as long as the society lasts, but will always remain in the community, because without this there can be no community, no commonwealth, which is contrary to the original agreement...