The Pamphleteer, Հատոր 21Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1822 |
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... influence , and that influence is power ; and that power from influence will extend its operation , where power from law and authority cannot reach ; and that the good will of the people towards government has in all ages proved the ...
... influence , and that influence is power ; and that power from influence will extend its operation , where power from law and authority cannot reach ; and that the good will of the people towards government has in all ages proved the ...
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... influence is calculated to deceive even themselves . The misfortune lies per- haps in the debt itself , and is therefore too deep for an immediate remedy . We have few proprietors of land not also largely con- cerned in the public funds ...
... influence is calculated to deceive even themselves . The misfortune lies per- haps in the debt itself , and is therefore too deep for an immediate remedy . We have few proprietors of land not also largely con- cerned in the public funds ...
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... influence was it in the finance committee , which led to the advice of imposing , after years of peace , new taxes to the amount of 3,000,000l . , added to the boasted surplus in the conso- lidated fund ? Secondly , the application of ...
... influence was it in the finance committee , which led to the advice of imposing , after years of peace , new taxes to the amount of 3,000,000l . , added to the boasted surplus in the conso- lidated fund ? Secondly , the application of ...
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... influence the market price . Bread , as we have before hinted , is a striking instance of the mischievous interference of middle dealers , to the injury of the public . For in times of plenty , and when the farmer at home receives less ...
... influence the market price . Bread , as we have before hinted , is a striking instance of the mischievous interference of middle dealers , to the injury of the public . For in times of plenty , and when the farmer at home receives less ...
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... influenced one who has no respect for your principles , and no exaggerated opinion of your abilities , which he has sometimes admired without idolatry , and often opposed without fear . That I am in no abject or de- voted sense a ...
... influenced one who has no respect for your principles , and no exaggerated opinion of your abilities , which he has sometimes admired without idolatry , and often opposed without fear . That I am in no abject or de- voted sense a ...
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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.