Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution, Volume 2John Owen, 1841 |
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... parliament . Still it must be allowed that more care was taken of the liberties of the subject by the House of Com- mons than the general principles of human nature would have led us to expect ; and this , as I then observed , is an ...
... parliament . Still it must be allowed that more care was taken of the liberties of the subject by the House of Com- mons than the general principles of human nature would have led us to expect ; and this , as I then observed , is an ...
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... parliament , was soon dissolved , and a new and regular parliament was immediately summoned , and met in May , 1661 . This was the pensionary parliament , as it was called , the parliament that sat afterwards for so many years . Great ...
... parliament , was soon dissolved , and a new and regular parliament was immediately summoned , and met in May , 1661 . This was the pensionary parliament , as it was called , the parliament that sat afterwards for so many years . Great ...
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... parliamentary titles , and some of the estates of the great families were recovered ; but on the whole the good sense ... parliament . By these acts men seem to have been in general secured in the possession of their estates and property ...
... parliamentary titles , and some of the estates of the great families were recovered ; but on the whole the good sense ... parliament . By these acts men seem to have been in general secured in the possession of their estates and property ...
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... parliament should afterwards make . But the acts of parliament must necessarily be considered , in this case , as those of the king and his minis- ters ; and a splendid opportunity was lost , first , of making a benign and wise effort ...
... parliament should afterwards make . But the acts of parliament must necessarily be considered , in this case , as those of the king and his minis- ters ; and a splendid opportunity was lost , first , of making a benign and wise effort ...
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... Britannic majesty out of the reach of all constraint , from his parliament , which could interfere with his new engagements with Louis . VOL . II . 2 This curious treaty was communicated to Mr. Hume while in CHARLES THE SECOND . 9.
... Britannic majesty out of the reach of all constraint , from his parliament , which could interfere with his new engagements with Louis . VOL . II . 2 This curious treaty was communicated to Mr. Hume while in CHARLES THE SECOND . 9.
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Página 393 - 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 394 - The more they multiply, the more friends you will have; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Página 484 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...
Página 463 - And let me conjure you in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man, who wishes, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.
Página 411 - ... and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to live on? Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands, and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor?
Página 366 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 186 - I shall therefore venture to acknowledge, that, not only as a man, but as a British subject, I pray for the flourishing commerce of Germany, Spain, Italy, and even France itself. I am at least certain that Great Britain, and all those nations, would flourish more, did their sovereigns and ministers adopt such enlarged and benevolent sentiments towards each other.
Página 393 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Página 52 - And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects. 11. And excessive fines have been imposed ; and illegal and cruel punishments inflicted.
Página 394 - Do not entertain so weak an imagination as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce.