A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United States of America: In Six LecturesLongman and Company, 1842 - 192 páginas |
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... remarks : " In America religion was the road to know- ledge , and the observance of the divine laws led man to civil freedom . " New York , originally a Dutch settlement and founded about the year 1614 , was afterwards taken and estab ...
... remarks : " In America religion was the road to know- ledge , and the observance of the divine laws led man to civil freedom . " New York , originally a Dutch settlement and founded about the year 1614 , was afterwards taken and estab ...
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... remarks , * " The facility and the excess of law - making seem to be the diseases to which our governments are most liable ....... The mischievous effects of the mutability in the public councils arising from a rapid succession of new ...
... remarks , * " The facility and the excess of law - making seem to be the diseases to which our governments are most liable ....... The mischievous effects of the mutability in the public councils arising from a rapid succession of new ...
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... remarks on the difficulty of forming a just estimate of the character and qualifications proper for a high and important trust . " Men of superior minds , " he says , " may be mistaken ; and can it be supposed the multitude will judge ...
... remarks on the difficulty of forming a just estimate of the character and qualifications proper for a high and important trust . " Men of superior minds , " he says , " may be mistaken ; and can it be supposed the multitude will judge ...
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... remarks on this point as follows : - " I hold it to be clear that those who consider universal suffrage to be a guarantee of a wise and good choice , labour under a complete delusion . Whatever may be its advantages , this is not one of ...
... remarks on this point as follows : - " I hold it to be clear that those who consider universal suffrage to be a guarantee of a wise and good choice , labour under a complete delusion . Whatever may be its advantages , this is not one of ...
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... remarks on similar specula- tions concerning the " rights of men , " from which I quote a few sentences , both on account of their excel- lent wisdom , and to shew that there is no novelty in the modern fallacies by which the people are ...
... remarks on similar specula- tions concerning the " rights of men , " from which I quote a few sentences , both on account of their excel- lent wisdom , and to shew that there is no novelty in the modern fallacies by which the people are ...
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Página 138 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Página 62 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned.
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 117 - I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.
Página 10 - And is it possible, that neither of these causes, that not all combined, were able to blast this bud of hope? Is it possible, that from a beginning so feeble, so frail, so worthy not so much of admiration as of pity, there has gone forth a progress so steady, a growth so wonderful, an expansion so ample, a reality so important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious?
Página 10 - ... without shelter : without means : surrounded by hostile tribes. Shut now the volume of history, and tell me, on any principle of human probability, what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers. Tell me, man of military science ! in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes enumerated within the early limits of New England ? Tell me, politician ! how long did the shadow of a colony, on which your conventions and treaties had not smiled, languish on the distant...
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 151 - 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 120 - 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.