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Сторінка 250 - neither House of Parliament hath any power, by any vote or declaration, to create to themselves any new privilege that is not warranted by the known laws and customs of Parliament...
Сторінка 429 - Lord Brougham's reply to lord John Russell's letter to the electors of Stroud, on the principles of the reform act, third edition.
Сторінка 424 - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he will be graciously pleased to issue a Commission for inquiring into the defects, occasioned by time and otherwise, in the laws of this realm, and into the measures necessary for removing the same.
Сторінка 60 - I ever heard such a thing even whispered; and I am as certain as I am of my own existence, that, during the whole of that period, not one act of a corrupt nature had ever been done by any one member of either House.
Сторінка 376 - Each state appoints, in whatever manner its own legislature may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of those whom it sends to both the Senate and the House of Representatives, no person holding any office in or under the Government being eligible as an elector. The electors then meet and vote by ballot for two persons, one as President, and one as Vice-President ; one of whom at least must not be an inhabitant of the State. A list of all the persons voted for, with the number of...
Сторінка 251 - ... house, have assumed to themselves alone a legislative authority, by pretending to attribute the force of a law to their declaration ; have claimed a jurisdiction not warranted by the constitution, and have assumed a new privilege to which they can...
Сторінка 434 - From the First Invasion by the Romans, down to the 14th year of Queen Victoria's Reign. By MRS.
Сторінка 431 - Treaty, delivered in the house of Lords on friday, 7th april 1843. Lond. Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1843, 80, 70. 73. Dialogues on instinct, with analytical view of the researches on fossil osteology. Lond. C. Knight and Co. 1844, 12o. Part of the series entitled, Knight's Weekly Volume. Originally published with and forming part of Lord Brougham's Dissertations... on Natural Theology. Lord Brougham translated the Latin quotations for this edition. 74. Speech of Lord Brougham upon the criminal code, in...
Сторінка 221 - Williams be condemned to pay the like sum, of which £3,000 went to himself as a compensation, for that Prelate having written a letter in which the Primate was turned into ridicule by a single expression. He was likewise imprisoned three years for the same jest, and for being so partial to it as to refuse apologizing to the indignant metropolitan. For some libel on the Church Leighton was whipped, pilloried, had his nose slit and his ears cut off, and was condemned to prison for life ; Lilburn was...
Сторінка 215 - ... extreme severity. In the time of James I., as we have seen (Chap, xvi.), the Commons ordered a person who was charged only with having spoken disrespectfully of the Palatine, then an object of popular favour, to be led ignominiously in procession on horseback, with his head towards the tail of the beast, to be whipped from London to Westminster, to pay a fine of £5,000, and to be imprisoned for life; and all but the whipping was executed upon this unfortunate gentleman. In Charles I.'s time...