Parliamentary speeches from 1761 to 1802William Hazlitt Prior and Dunning, 1810 |
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... court , to start questions and hunt them down ; to wind and unwind the web of sophistry ; to pick out the threads , and untie every knot with scrupulous exactness ; to bandy logic with every pretender to a paradox ; to examine , to sift ...
... court , to start questions and hunt them down ; to wind and unwind the web of sophistry ; to pick out the threads , and untie every knot with scrupulous exactness ; to bandy logic with every pretender to a paradox ; to examine , to sift ...
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... court where it could be tried , nor to which there could be an appeal from their deci- sion . That wherever a court of justice is supreme , and their sentence final ( which he apprehended no man would dispute was the case of the house ...
... court where it could be tried , nor to which there could be an appeal from their deci- sion . That wherever a court of justice is supreme , and their sentence final ( which he apprehended no man would dispute was the case of the house ...
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... courts , the constitution had pro- vided no remedy . That if they wilfully determined wrong , it was iniquitous indeed , and in the highest de- gree detestible But it was a crime , of which no human tribunal could take cognizance , and ...
... courts , the constitution had pro- vided no remedy . That if they wilfully determined wrong , it was iniquitous indeed , and in the highest de- gree detestible But it was a crime , of which no human tribunal could take cognizance , and ...
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... court , every political society , must be vested with those powers and privileges which are necessary for performing the office to which they are appointed . It tells us also , that no court of justice can have a power inconsistent with ...
... court , every political society , must be vested with those powers and privileges which are necessary for performing the office to which they are appointed . It tells us also , that no court of justice can have a power inconsistent with ...
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... court of judicature where his cause was tried : -I mean the house of com- mons . With one party he was a patriot of the first mag- nitude with the other , the vilest incendiary . For my own part , I consider him merely and indifferently ...
... court of judicature where his cause was tried : -I mean the house of com- mons . With one party he was a patriot of the first mag- nitude with the other , the vilest incendiary . For my own part , I consider him merely and indifferently ...
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act of parliament America argument army asserted begums bill boroughs Britain British Burke called character Chatham church of England civil list conduct consequence considered constitution contended corruption crown danger declared duke duty effect elected endeavour enemy England equal established exchequer expence favour feel France French give honourable gentleman house of Bourbon house of commons house of peers idea interest Ireland Irish volunteers Jacobin judges justice king kingdom late liberty lord Chatham LORD NORTH lordship majesty majesty's means measure member of parliament ment mind minister nation nature necessary never noble lord object observed opinion parliament peace persons petition Pitt political present principles proceedings proposed prove question reason reform reign representation resolution respect sentiments Sheridan shew situation slaves speech spirit suppose test act thing thought tion trade treaty truth vote whole wish
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Página 283 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences, — a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Página 342 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Página 285 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Página 295 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Página 295 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Página 11 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever ; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Página 286 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
Página 288 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Página 294 - The Church of England, too, was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world, and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty.
Página 11 - There is an idea in some, that the colonies are virtually represented in this House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here...