The Life and Correspondence of Major Cartwright, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1826 |
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Page 238 - In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground: but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called, to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best.
Page 337 - Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
Page 235 - Our Revolution commenced on more favorable ground. It presented us an album on which we were free to write what we pleased. We had no occasion to search into musty records, to hunt up royal parchments, or to investigate the laws and institutions of a semi-barbarous ancestry. We appealed to those of nature, and found them engraved on our hearts.
Page 275 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 239 - I think not : the Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things ; not to mere matter unendowed with will — the dead are not even things.
Page 241 - Stra. 834, the court would not suffer it to be debated, whether to write against Christianity was punishable in the temporal courts at common law ? Wood, therefore, 409, ventures still to vary the phrase, and says, ' that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law,' and cites 2 Stra.; then Blackstone, in 1763, IV.
Page 52 - ... no just, but not even statutable charge against him ; and that, notwithstanding the promise and order from the presiding magistrates of a copy of the warrant against your petitioner, it was afterwards withheld on divers pretexts, and has never until this hour been granted. The names and condition of the parties will be found in the petition. To the other topics touched upon in the petition, I shall not now advert, from a wish not to encroach upon the time of the House ; but I do most sincerely...
Page 235 - the commons established a principle, which is noble in itself, and seems specious, but is belied by all history and experience, that the people are the origin of all just power." And where else will this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?
Page 240 - Whereas Prisot palpably says, "to such laws as those of holy church have in ancient writing, it is proper for us to give credence," to wit, to their ancient written laws. This was in 1613, a century and a half after the dictum of Prisot. Wingate, in 1658, erects this false translation into a maxim of the common law, copying the words of Finch, but citing Prisot, Wing. Max. 3. And Sheppard, title, "Religion," in 1675, copies the same mistranslation, quoting the YB Finch and Wingate. Hale expresses...
Page 51 - The petitioner, my Lords, is a man whose long life has been spent in one unceasing struggle for the liberty of the subject, against that undue influence, which ' has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;' and, whatever difference of opinion may exist as to his political tenets, few will be THE HOUSE OF LORDS.