The constitution of England, with life and notes by J. Macgregor |
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... Effects that have resulted in the English Government from the People's Power being completely delegated to their Representatives IX . A farther Disadvantage of Republican Governments.— The People are necessarily betrayed by those in ...
... Effects that have resulted in the English Government from the People's Power being completely delegated to their Representatives IX . A farther Disadvantage of Republican Governments.— The People are necessarily betrayed by those in ...
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... effect this , I may perhaps give , in a few months , a French edition of the same ( which I cannot tell why I have not done sooner ) , in which all the above - mentioned additions , translated by myself , shall be inserted . In one of ...
... effect this , I may perhaps give , in a few months , a French edition of the same ( which I cannot tell why I have not done sooner ) , in which all the above - mentioned additions , translated by myself , shall be inserted . In one of ...
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... effect of its external structure and elevation ; or , if you please , like a man who , having always had a beautiful and extensive scene before his eyes , continues for ever to view it with indifference . But a stranger , -beholding at ...
... effect of its external structure and elevation ; or , if you please , like a man who , having always had a beautiful and extensive scene before his eyes , continues for ever to view it with indifference . But a stranger , -beholding at ...
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... effect of private ambition or caprice . The people did not engage in them as associates in the support of a cause ... effects of their own inso- lence to the despotism of so many sovereigns ; and the people , wearied out by sufferings ...
... effect of private ambition or caprice . The people did not engage in them as associates in the support of a cause ... effects of their own inso- lence to the despotism of so many sovereigns ; and the people , wearied out by sufferings ...
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... any shape whatever molested , either in his person or effects , otherwise than by judgment of his peers , * Anno 1215 . + But domestic slavery was not then nor until long after abolished . -Ed . and according to the law of the land ; *
... any shape whatever molested , either in his person or effects , otherwise than by judgment of his peers , * Anno 1215 . + But domestic slavery was not then nor until long after abolished . -Ed . and according to the law of the land ; *
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Сторінка 202 - Sense taken for a malicious Defamation, expressed either in Printing or Writing, and tending either to blacken the Memory of one who is dead, or the Reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public Hatred, Contempt or Ridicule.
Сторінка 76 - Will you to the utmost of your " power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the " gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established " by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Сторінка 355 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Сторінка 353 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Сторінка 25 - Elements of Christian Theology ; containing Proofs of the Authenticity and Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; a Summary of the History of the Jews; an Account of the Jewish Sects ; and a brief Statement of the Contents of the several Books of the Old Testament.
Сторінка 352 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Сторінка 76 - The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep : so help me God :" and then shall kiss the book (12).
Сторінка 21 - Opera), the best farce (the Critic — it is only too good for a farce), and the best Address (Monologue on Garrick), and, to crown all, delivered the very best Oration (the famous Begum Speech) ever conceived or heard in this country.
Сторінка 356 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter, when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
Сторінка 17 - The Political Consequences of the Reformation. II. The Rise, Progress, and Practical Influence of Political Theories. III. The Rise and Growth of the Continental Interests of Great Britain. In 1 vol.