A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett: Selected and Arranged with a Preface by Theodore Sedgwick, Jr, Volume 2Taylor & Dodd, 1840 |
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... present connexion . Yet , in the reformation of the post - office department , it would be well to conform it as nearly as possible to free - trade prin- ciples . The tax of postage , like all other taxes , ought to fall equally on the ...
... present connexion . Yet , in the reformation of the post - office department , it would be well to conform it as nearly as possible to free - trade prin- ciples . The tax of postage , like all other taxes , ought to fall equally on the ...
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... present object of imperial interdiction : who shall answer that the sanctity of letters will not next be vio- lated , their contents inspected , and their secrets be- trayed ? If the strange and startling doctrines we have heard ...
... present object of imperial interdiction : who shall answer that the sanctity of letters will not next be vio- lated , their contents inspected , and their secrets be- trayed ? If the strange and startling doctrines we have heard ...
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... present excited state of public feeling , a few inflammatory phrases might easily set men's minds on fire , and give a tumultuous character to an assemblage which can only truly promote the desired end by acting with the most impressive ...
... present excited state of public feeling , a few inflammatory phrases might easily set men's minds on fire , and give a tumultuous character to an assemblage which can only truly promote the desired end by acting with the most impressive ...
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... present case . There is no terror in the term abo- litionist for us ; for we trust to our readers to discrimi . nate between words and things , and to judge of us by our sentiments , not by the appellations which foul - mouthed WILLIAM ...
... present case . There is no terror in the term abo- litionist for us ; for we trust to our readers to discrimi . nate between words and things , and to judge of us by our sentiments , not by the appellations which foul - mouthed WILLIAM ...
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... present day , whatever may have been the case at the period when it was uttered , if we are now for the first time to discover that we have blindly entered into a compact which excludes us from an expression of our sentiments on a ...
... present day , whatever may have been the case at the period when it was uttered , if we are now for the first time to discover that we have blindly entered into a compact which excludes us from an expression of our sentiments on a ...
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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett ..., Volume 2 William Leggett Visualização integral - 1840 |
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Página 133 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 62 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Página 55 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Página 276 - Hear, Imlac, what thou wilt not without difficulty credit. I have possessed for five years the regulation of the weather, and the distribution of the seasons : the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervors of the crab.
Página 332 - ... with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people ? Still one thing more fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labour the bread it has earned.
Página 203 - To abolish a status which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially now when their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to " shut the gates...
Página 209 - For who knows not that Truth is strong next to the Almighty; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Página 255 - ... in every other instance the apprehensions of the timid and the hopes of the wicked for the destruction of our Government are again destined to be disappointed. Here and there, indeed, scenes of dangerous excitement have occurred, terrifying instances of local violence have been witnessed, and a reckless disregard of the consequences of their conduct has exposed individuals to popular indignation...
Página 136 - There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Página 169 - He is a gentleman, steady in his principles, of nice honour, with abundance of learning : brave as the sword he wears, and bold as a lion : a sure friend and an irreconcileable enemy : would lose his life readily to serve his country ; and would not do a base thing to save it.