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Página 49
... neral constitution , connected with the mother country , quite as strongly and as justly as the Prussians are crying out for the constitution which was promised to them by their king . With us , how- ever , the claim will be satisfied ...
... neral constitution , connected with the mother country , quite as strongly and as justly as the Prussians are crying out for the constitution which was promised to them by their king . With us , how- ever , the claim will be satisfied ...
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... neral utility which had no connection with party politics ? Has honest con- viction , or party madness , produced his violent and disgusting changes of opinion on Reform ? Was he , or was he not , the parent of radicalism ? What will be ...
... neral utility which had no connection with party politics ? Has honest con- viction , or party madness , produced his violent and disgusting changes of opinion on Reform ? Was he , or was he not , the parent of radicalism ? What will be ...
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... neral good , even of those in slavery ; whereas in another it is adverse equally to good policy as , not indeed to the direct word of scripture , but to the principles of the Christian religion . Difficulty for le- gislators , thus , in ...
... neral good , even of those in slavery ; whereas in another it is adverse equally to good policy as , not indeed to the direct word of scripture , but to the principles of the Christian religion . Difficulty for le- gislators , thus , in ...
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... neral Assembly . Were you to be shut up in a tower , commanding a good view of the Frith and the coast of Fife , for six calendar months , and fed on the most exhilarating diet , on condition of producing , at the close of your ...
... neral Assembly . Were you to be shut up in a tower , commanding a good view of the Frith and the coast of Fife , for six calendar months , and fed on the most exhilarating diet , on condition of producing , at the close of your ...
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... neral inexpediency of putting a glossy substance , like a regulation saddle , in contact with smooth leather panta- loons , where the object was to secure adhesion ; his objection to my idea of a rough covering , altogether , was that ...
... neral inexpediency of putting a glossy substance , like a regulation saddle , in contact with smooth leather panta- loons , where the object was to secure adhesion ; his objection to my idea of a rough covering , altogether , was that ...
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Página 64 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Página 227 - Life of Andrew Melville. Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Crown 8vo, 6s. History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century.
Página 56 - That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned.
Página 85 - Rise up ! rise up, Xarifa ! lay the golden cushion down ! Rise up ! come to the window, and gaze with all the town ! " Arise ! arise, Xarifa ! I see Andalla's face ; He bends him to the people with a calm and princely grace. Through all the land of Xeres and banks of Guadalquiver Rode forth bridegroom so brave as he, so brave and lovely, never.
Página 200 - I tell you, Sir, every Sunday that I go to my parish church, I can build a ship from stem to stern under the sermon ; but, were it to save my soul, under Mr. Whitefield, I could not lay a single plank." Hume * pronounced him the most ingenious preacher he had ever heard ; and said, it was worth while to go twenty miles to hear him. But, perhaps, the greatest proof of his persuasive powers was, when he drew from Franklin's pocket the money which that clear cool reasoner had determined not to give...
Página 134 - If these be your real sentiments, why did you always shrink from the rope, when we called for a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together?
Página 449 - Books that can be held in the hand, and carried to the fireside, are the best after all."— Samuel Johnson. " The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Página 569 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures.
Página 340 - Spain the same opinions were repeated with this specific addition, that in either of two cases (now happily not likely to occur), in that of any attempt on the part of Spain to revive the obsolete interdiction of intercourse with countries over which she has no longer any actual dominion, or in that of the employment of foreign assistance to...
Página 199 - ... in the course of his studies, or fresh from the feeling of the moment. They who lived with him, could trace him in his sermons to the book which he had last been reading, or the subject which had recently taken his attention. But the salient points of his oratory were not prepared passages. — they were bursts of passion, like jets from a Geyser, when the spring is in full play.