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When the great body of representatives were decidedly opposed to the measures
of the cabinet , the measures , if obnoxious to the house and to public opinion ,
were abandoned , or the ministers were forced to resign . Before matters came to
...
When the great body of representatives were decidedly opposed to the measures
of the cabinet , the measures , if obnoxious to the house and to public opinion ,
were abandoned , or the ministers were forced to resign . Before matters came to
...
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Their power is enormous , but it is clothed in the authority of public opinion . They
are the all - powerful guardians of a people which respects law ; but they would
be impotent against popular neglect or popular contempt . The force of public ...
Their power is enormous , but it is clothed in the authority of public opinion . They
are the all - powerful guardians of a people which respects law ; but they would
be impotent against popular neglect or popular contempt . The force of public ...
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Let a man oppose , how conscientiously soever , the prevailing opinions of the
people , and he will be slighted by ... Liberty of thought and opinion is strenuously
maintained in this proud land , it has become almost a wearisome cant ; our ...
Let a man oppose , how conscientiously soever , the prevailing opinions of the
people , and he will be slighted by ... Liberty of thought and opinion is strenuously
maintained in this proud land , it has become almost a wearisome cant ; our ...
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And M . De Tocqueville assigns as a reason why there have been so few great
writers in the United States , that “ literature cannot flourish without freedom of
opinion , which does not exist in America . " But in America , as well as in
England ...
And M . De Tocqueville assigns as a reason why there have been so few great
writers in the United States , that “ literature cannot flourish without freedom of
opinion , which does not exist in America . " But in America , as well as in
England ...
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... and mistaken opinions on important questions once adopted may sometimes
be defended with ability and ingenuity ... and if those great organs of information
and public opinion occasionally excite feelings that had better remain dormant ...
... and mistaken opinions on important questions once adopted may sometimes
be defended with ability and ingenuity ... and if those great organs of information
and public opinion occasionally excite feelings that had better remain dormant ...
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Página 140 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Página 10 - Was it the winter's storm, beating upon the houseless heads of women and children ; was it hard labor and spare meals ; was it disease ; was it the tomahawk ; was it the deep malady of a blighted hope- a ruined enterprise, and a broken heart, aching in its last moments, at the recollection of the loved and left beyond the sea ; was it some, or all of these united, that hurried this forsaken company to their melancholy fate...
Página 58 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitution.
Página 178 - Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth ! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Página 9 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc. Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Página 64 - My son, fear thou the LORD and the king : and meddle not with them that are given to change...
Página 153 - It is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
Página 122 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Página 148 - The state of civil society, which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. For man is by nature reasonable ; and he is never perfectly in his natural state, but when he is placed where reason may be best cultivated, and most predominates.
Página 166 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth ? is not he that sitteth at meat? But I am among you as he that serveth.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United States of America: In Six Lectures |
| Autor | Peter Freeland Aiken |
| Editor | Longman and Company, 1842 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 4 Dic. 2006 |
| Largo | 192 páginas |
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