Selections from the Edinburgh review; with a preliminary dissertation, and explanatory notes. Ed. by M. Cross, Том 41833 |
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Сторінка 543 - (6 Geo. III. c. 12.) had asserted that supremacy absolutely, and in all its branches ; affirming that Parliament " had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient
Сторінка 592 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold ? Of other care they little reck'ning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers
Сторінка 595 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face ; You cannot bar
Сторінка 565 - subjection to the laws of the land, or to even those of God and nature. No magistrate could ever discover or be informed which way one in a hundred of these wretches died, or that ever they were baptized." He advises the government to set them to work ; but he strongly represents the
Сторінка 229 - by the authority of the same, That at any time after the end of the present Session of Parliament, and until the 1st day of January 1827, or for six weeks after the commencement of the then ensuing Session of Parliament, if Parliament shall not then be sitting, it shall be lawful for his Majesty,
Сторінка 543 - on constitutional law accordingly took a broad distinction between taxation and legislation. " Taxation," said Lord Chatham, " is no part of the governing or legislative power. Taxes are a voluntary gift or grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the Three Estates of the realm
Сторінка 590 - The village life, and ev'ry care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains ; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age in its hour of languor finds at last; What form the real picture of the poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more.
Сторінка 17 - has been pronounced, that which was before uncertain, and ' perhaps indifferent, becomes a permanent rule, which it is not in the ' breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from ;' and he accordingly tells us, that ' it is an established rule to abide by former
Сторінка 590 - prolong ? Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way ? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains. * « * * * ***** Then shall I dare these real ills to hide In tinsel trappings of poetic pride ? ***** ***** By such examples taught, I paint the cot As Truth will
Сторінка 543 - will not impose any duty, tax, or assessment whatever, payable in any of his Majesty's colonies, provinces, and plantations in North America or the West Indies, excepting only such duties as it may be expedient to enforce for the regulation of commerce,