The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 38J. Dodsley, 1800 |
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... important the queftion brought before the le- giflature , the greater was the pro- penfity as well as the intereft of the public to examine and feruti- nize it . If this privilege was al- lowed in matters of little impor- tance , it ...
... important the queftion brought before the le- giflature , the greater was the pro- penfity as well as the intereft of the public to examine and feruti- nize it . If this privilege was al- lowed in matters of little impor- tance , it ...
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... important fubject , and for the purpofe of pe- titioning parliament again the faid bill , or any other meafure which 10 ཝཱ་ might tend to infringe the juft rights of the people of Great Britain . The correfponding fociety's nu- merous ...
... important fubject , and for the purpofe of pe- titioning parliament again the faid bill , or any other meafure which 10 ཝཱ་ might tend to infringe the juft rights of the people of Great Britain . The correfponding fociety's nu- merous ...
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... importance of the democratic part of the conftitution , by depriving it of fo alarming a pro- portion of its property , and annex- ing it to the aritocracy , through the creation of fuch a number of peers . If the remaining friends to ...
... importance of the democratic part of the conftitution , by depriving it of fo alarming a pro- portion of its property , and annex- ing it to the aritocracy , through the creation of fuch a number of peers . If the remaining friends to ...
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... important ftatute had been enacted , as a remedy against former oppreffion , and to fecure the fubject against illegal profecution . To compafs , or even to imagine , the death of the king , was , by that fta . tute , declared high ...
... important ftatute had been enacted , as a remedy against former oppreffion , and to fecure the fubject against illegal profecution . To compafs , or even to imagine , the death of the king , was , by that fta . tute , declared high ...
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... importance . The vanity of resist- ance at laft breaks the spirit of the people , and difpofes them to unre- ferved fubmiflion . Their political importance being wholly gone ; they are degraded , more and more , and fubjected to greater ...
... importance . The vanity of resist- ance at laft breaks the spirit of the people , and difpofes them to unre- ferved fubmiflion . Their political importance being wholly gone ; they are degraded , more and more , and fubjected to greater ...
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Página 300 - ... when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation — when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Página 295 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 302 - Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.
Página 295 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community ; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans, digested by common councils, and modified by mutual...
Página 302 - The considerations which respect the right to hold this conduct, it is not necessary, on this occasion, to detail. I will only observe, that according to my understanding of the matter, that right, so far from being denied by any of the belligerent powers, has been virtually admitted by all.
Página 297 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true ; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence if not with favor upon the spirit of party.
Página 299 - So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Página 298 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 298 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all; religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 291 - I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety...