Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added, the Argument of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of PeltierE.C. Biddle, 1841 - 540 páginas |
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... Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it ; and this I know , my lords , that , where law ends , tyranny begins ! ע 3 LORD CHATHAM'S SPEECH , IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS , THE ADDRESS TO THE THRONE . 25.
... Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it ; and this I know , my lords , that , where law ends , tyranny begins ! ע 3 LORD CHATHAM'S SPEECH , IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS , THE ADDRESS TO THE THRONE . 25.
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... corrupt prodigality , upon those who never served the public in any honest occupation at all , an annual income equal to two thirds of the whole collection of the revenues of this kingdom . Actuated by the same principle of choice , he ...
... corrupt prodigality , upon those who never served the public in any honest occupation at all , an annual income equal to two thirds of the whole collection of the revenues of this kingdom . Actuated by the same principle of choice , he ...
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... corruption . Then they pay off their protection to great crimes and great criminals , by being inexorable to the paltry frailties of little men ; and these modern flagellants are sure , with a rigid fidelity , to whip their own ...
... corruption . Then they pay off their protection to great crimes and great criminals , by being inexorable to the paltry frailties of little men ; and these modern flagellants are sure , with a rigid fidelity , to whip their own ...
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... corrupt , private interest is set up in direct opposition to the necessities of the nation . A diversion is made of millions of the public money from the public treasury to a private purse . It is not into secret nego- tiations for war ...
... corrupt , private interest is set up in direct opposition to the necessities of the nation . A diversion is made of millions of the public money from the public treasury to a private purse . It is not into secret nego- tiations for war ...
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... corrupt and fraudulent transaction to this hour , have uniformly disowned and disavowed it . So much for the authority . As to the facts , partly true , and partly colorable , as they stand recorded , they are in substance these . The ...
... corrupt and fraudulent transaction to this hour , have uniformly disowned and disavowed it . So much for the authority . As to the facts , partly true , and partly colorable , as they stand recorded , they are in substance these . The ...
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Página 479 - ... is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Página 351 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 479 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Página 430 - The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence.
Página 36 - You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles...
Página 348 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 370 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 57 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Página 92 - ... 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...
Página 11 - Great Britain, give and grant to your Majesty" — what ? Our own property ! No ! ' ' We give and grant to your Majesty" the property of your Majesty's commons of America!