History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an Introduction 1800 to 1815, Volume 2Walker, Wise,, 1865 |
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... that remained to them . The imperial parliament had continued prorogued from the 1 The reader will please bear in mind , when dates are referred to , that this history was written in 1846 . State of parties . 3 11th July , 1815 ,
... that remained to them . The imperial parliament had continued prorogued from the 1 The reader will please bear in mind , when dates are referred to , that this history was written in 1846 . State of parties . 3 11th July , 1815 ,
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... mind this was to preserve the constitution . To lop off a limb was life to the constitution ; to infuse new blood was death . It has been truly observed that he confounded every abuse that surrounded the throne , or grew up within the ...
... mind this was to preserve the constitution . To lop off a limb was life to the constitution ; to infuse new blood was death . It has been truly observed that he confounded every abuse that surrounded the throne , or grew up within the ...
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... mind too staid - perhaps too little imaginative and pliant to make him the leader of his own scat- tered party . But as the founder of the noblest of our improve- ments , the reform of our hateful and inoperative penal laws , he will do ...
... mind too staid - perhaps too little imaginative and pliant to make him the leader of his own scat- tered party . But as the founder of the noblest of our improve- ments , the reform of our hateful and inoperative penal laws , he will do ...
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... minds of men in regard to what is beneficial for themselves , by increased severity of punishment ; whilst every sound principle of criminal legislation makes us re- gard such an addition to the long list of offences already sub- jected ...
... minds of men in regard to what is beneficial for themselves , by increased severity of punishment ; whilst every sound principle of criminal legislation makes us re- gard such an addition to the long list of offences already sub- jected ...
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... minds of the people , by exciting discontent and disaffection ; why are not these laws rendered effectual , and enforced as well as the former ? The answer is very obvious . The laws , as they stood at the end of 1816 , when this was ...
... minds of the people , by exciting discontent and disaffection ; why are not these laws rendered effectual , and enforced as well as the former ? The answer is very obvious . The laws , as they stood at the end of 1816 , when this was ...
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Page 186 - Antiquity deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression.
Page 341 - I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Page 336 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent...
Page 439 - That the King's most excellent Majesty, and the Lords and Commons of Ireland, are the only power competent to make laws to bind Ireland.
Page 2 - The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. All crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed innocence from heaven descend.
Page 138 - They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin...
Page 384 - That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned.
Page 436 - ... as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles II. ; and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 253 - ... whilst over the whole field, were strewed caps, bonnets, hats, shawls, and shoes, and other parts of male and female dress; trampled, torn, and bloody. The yeomanry had dismounted, — some were easing their horses...
Page 98 - Egypt for badness: and the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning.