Discourse on the Character and Services of John Hampden: And the Great Struggle for Popular and Constitutional Liberty in His Time, المجلد 115Shepherd and Colin, 1845 - 68 من الصفحات |
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... debate charac- terised by high resolve and that noble spirit of liberty which then prevailed , reversed the proceedings of the chancellor as an infringement upon the funda- mental privileges and rights of the Commons , and 3 determined ...
... debate charac- terised by high resolve and that noble spirit of liberty which then prevailed , reversed the proceedings of the chancellor as an infringement upon the funda- mental privileges and rights of the Commons , and 3 determined ...
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... debate , in which the learning and ability exhibited by some of the popular members were equalled only by the firm and undaunted spirit of patriotism displayed by them all , a bill was brought in to abolish the illegal impositions . The ...
... debate , in which the learning and ability exhibited by some of the popular members were equalled only by the firm and undaunted spirit of patriotism displayed by them all , a bill was brought in to abolish the illegal impositions . The ...
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... debates . An interval of more than six years now occurred before the assembling of another Parliament . During this period , events of the most important character had taken place on the continent of Europe , which strongly appealed to ...
... debates . An interval of more than six years now occurred before the assembling of another Parliament . During this period , events of the most important character had taken place on the continent of Europe , which strongly appealed to ...
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... debates in Parliament . The controversy was kept up with increasing heats on both sides till the Commons entered upon their Journal a solemn protes- tation , called by Selden the second Magna Carta , in which , after setting forth the ...
... debates in Parliament . The controversy was kept up with increasing heats on both sides till the Commons entered upon their Journal a solemn protes- tation , called by Selden the second Magna Carta , in which , after setting forth the ...
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... debate . And here again we see him painted to the life by one or two vivid touches of the pencil from the same contemporary lim- ners . " He was not a man of many words , " says Clarendon , " but a very weighty speaker . " Sir Phi- lip ...
... debate . And here again we see him painted to the life by one or two vivid touches of the pencil from the same contemporary lim- ners . " He was not a man of many words , " says Clarendon , " but a very weighty speaker . " Sir Phi- lip ...
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الصفحة 28 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
الصفحة 65 - The law is that which puts a difference betwixt good and evil, — betwixt just and unjust. If you take away the law, all things will fall into a confusion. Every man will become a law to himself, which, in the depraved condition of human nature, must needs produce many great enormities. Lust will become a law, and envy will become a law ; covetousness and ambition will become laws; and what dictates, what decisions such laws will produce may easily be discerned in the late government of Ireland!
الصفحة 41 - His carriage throughout this agitation was with that rare temper and modesty, that they who watched him narrowly to find some advantage against his person, to make him less resolute in his cause, were compelled to give him a just testimony.
الصفحة 24 - He sent for the Journals of the House, and with his own hand tore out the pages which contained it. " I will govern," he said, "according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.
الصفحة 28 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
الصفحة 26 - He was indeed a very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and the most absolute faculties to govern the people, of any man I ever knew.
الصفحة 27 - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
الصفحة 32 - that he could be content to lend as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta which should be read twice a year against those who infringe it.
الصفحة 49 - Westminster in hcec verba, etc., in the whole and in every part of them are against the Laws of the Realm, the Right of Property, and the Liberty of the Subjects, and contrary to former resolutions in Parliament, and to the Petition of Right.
الصفحة 55 - Abner's young men, had catched at each other's locks, and sheathed our swords in each other's bowels, had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden by a short speech prevented it, and led us to defer our angry debate until the next morning.