The Edinburgh Review, Volume 50;Volume 83A. and C. Black, 1846 |
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... means of finance , somewhat inconsistently with their opinion of the York title , they attainted , that is , confiscated , thirty of the York party , on the unreasonable and indeed unintelligible ground of having been in rebellion ...
... means of finance , somewhat inconsistently with their opinion of the York title , they attainted , that is , confiscated , thirty of the York party , on the unreasonable and indeed unintelligible ground of having been in rebellion ...
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... means than the pretence of Privilege - if that weapon , non hos quæsitum munus in usus , was the only one they had the power to grasp - Pym and Hampden might be bound to wield it , however repugnant to the elemental constitution of a ...
... means than the pretence of Privilege - if that weapon , non hos quæsitum munus in usus , was the only one they had the power to grasp - Pym and Hampden might be bound to wield it , however repugnant to the elemental constitution of a ...
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... means so well as by their petition ? Or did they but abuse the privilege of committing for contempt as a punishment ... mean security against flagrant misgovernment . Information must often have pro- ceeded from polluted sources ; but ...
... means so well as by their petition ? Or did they but abuse the privilege of committing for contempt as a punishment ... mean security against flagrant misgovernment . Information must often have pro- ceeded from polluted sources ; but ...
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... means of establishing his innocence , should expiate their audacity in a jail ! It would not be a whit more extrava- gant to utter the same threat against the party himself , who might possibly be much better qualified to defeat the ...
... means of establishing his innocence , should expiate their audacity in a jail ! It would not be a whit more extrava- gant to utter the same threat against the party himself , who might possibly be much better qualified to defeat the ...
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... means of obstruction which , as peers , they could raise . Privilege was like the seventh charmed bullet in Der Freischutz , and gave a fatal wound to that very justice of which all the noble lords were so much enamoured . These delays ...
... means of obstruction which , as peers , they could raise . Privilege was like the seventh charmed bullet in Der Freischutz , and gave a fatal wound to that very justice of which all the noble lords were so much enamoured . These delays ...
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Página 290 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place or honours ; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself; in that he seemed to me ever by his work one of the greatest men and most worthy of admiration that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want...
Página 335 - The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Página 18 - That privilege of Parliament does not extend to the case of writing and publishing seditious libels...
Página 178 - ... houses on the same account), we have, by a field return this day made, no less than two thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight men now in camp unfit for duty because they are barefoot and otherwise naked.
Página 75 - 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 328 - The coot was swimming in the reedy pond, Beside the water-hen, so soon affrighted ; And in the weedy moat the heron, fond Of solitude, alighted. The moping heron, motionless and stiff, That on a stone, as silently and stilly, Stood, an apparent sentinel, as if To guard the water-lily.
Página 332 - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Página 469 - On the British side of the line, with the exception of a few favoured spots, where some approach to American prosperity is apparent, all seems waste and desolate.
Página 435 - Keep always to the point, or with an eye upon it, and instead of saying things to make people stare and wonder, say what will withhold them hereafter from wondering and staring. This is philosophy; to make remote things tangible, common things extensively useful, useful things extensively common, and to leave the least necessary for the last.
Página 470 - ... miles. There, on the side of both the Canadas, and also of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, a widely scattered population, poor, and apparently unenterprising, though hardy and industrious, separated from each other by tracts of intervening forest, without towns and markets, almost without roads, living in mean houses, drawing little more than a rude subsistence from ill-cultivated land, and seemingly incapable of improving their condition, present the most instructive contrast to their enterprising...