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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... the most dignified by station , which concurred in this warm and approving verdict of a distant posterity upon the principles and actions of one of the stanchest advocates which the cause of popular freedom ever had . But I must 6.
... the most dignified by station , which concurred in this warm and approving verdict of a distant posterity upon the principles and actions of one of the stanchest advocates which the cause of popular freedom ever had . But I must 6.
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... principles of the two adverse parties were freely and openly debated ; and the Spanish minister , Gondomar , advised King James to annul the charter of the company , because its meetings were , as he said , " but a seminary to a se ...
... principles of the two adverse parties were freely and openly debated ; and the Spanish minister , Gondomar , advised King James to annul the charter of the company , because its meetings were , as he said , " but a seminary to a se ...
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... principle of Parliament as an independent representative body . One of the King's privy counsellors had been a ... principles . The Lord Chancellor , the King's chief officer and keeper of his conscience , disregarding the inherent ...
... principle of Parliament as an independent representative body . One of the King's privy counsellors had been a ... principles . The Lord Chancellor , the King's chief officer and keeper of his conscience , disregarding the inherent ...
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... principle of English liberty . The King , in- censed and alarmed at the increasing energy of the Commons , precipitately dissolved the Parliament , be- fore they had passed a single bill , and superadded the outrage of imprisoning ...
... principle of English liberty . The King , in- censed and alarmed at the increasing energy of the Commons , precipitately dissolved the Parliament , be- fore they had passed a single bill , and superadded the outrage of imprisoning ...
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... principles of national honour and of national interest , as they con- ceived , alike required of them the vigorous support of the Palatine and his allies against their haughty and powerful oppressors . James had embraced far different ...
... principles of national honour and of national interest , as they con- ceived , alike required of them the vigorous support of the Palatine and his allies against their haughty and powerful oppressors . James had embraced far different ...
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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.