The Pamphleteer, Հատոր 21Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1822 |
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... election , and shortening the duration of its trust , dependent upon the people , instead of being dependent upon the Crown , or , what is much worse , an overwhelming Oligarchy . Such is the brief state of the subject . Can you then ...
... election , and shortening the duration of its trust , dependent upon the people , instead of being dependent upon the Crown , or , what is much worse , an overwhelming Oligarchy . Such is the brief state of the subject . Can you then ...
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... election . It was in your choice to mitigate extremes , to conciliate differences , to extend the impartial benefi- cence of Government to all parties and sects of citizens . But chose to take the most effectual means to exaggerate ...
... election . It was in your choice to mitigate extremes , to conciliate differences , to extend the impartial benefi- cence of Government to all parties and sects of citizens . But chose to take the most effectual means to exaggerate ...
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... elections , is the only reform that can be effectual and permanent . I am further convinced , that it is the only reform that is practicable . The lesser reform ( alluding to Mr. Pitt's motion in the House of Commons ) has been ...
... elections , is the only reform that can be effectual and permanent . I am further convinced , that it is the only reform that is practicable . The lesser reform ( alluding to Mr. Pitt's motion in the House of Commons ) has been ...
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... election of the House of Commons is felt by all , and denied by those only , whose private advantage is at variance with their public interest . But the great argument of the latter , is the discrepancy of opinion among the Reformers ...
... election of the House of Commons is felt by all , and denied by those only , whose private advantage is at variance with their public interest . But the great argument of the latter , is the discrepancy of opinion among the Reformers ...
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... elections , to which they owe their power , on the public morals are lamentable . Every engine of bribery and corruption is employed , and produces perjury and the most abject selfishness that degrades the human mind . To those , who ...
... elections , to which they owe their power , on the public morals are lamentable . Every engine of bribery and corruption is employed , and produces perjury and the most abject selfishness that degrades the human mind . To those , who ...
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Էջ 10 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Էջ 11 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Էջ 5 - We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much.
Էջ 5 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Էջ 6 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Էջ 5 - ... their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms, never, never, never.
Էջ 12 - Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
Էջ 23 - An Act to prevent the Training of Persons to the Use of Arms, and to the Practice of Military Evolutions and Exercise...
Էջ 11 - Which after held the sun and moon in fee. But this is got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when truth would set them free. License they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good...
Էջ 15 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.