Junius. Stat Nominis Umbra, Volumen1T. Bensley, 1797 |
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Página ii
... let me exhort and conjure you never to suffer an invasion of your po- litical constitution , however minute the instance may appear , to pass by , with- out a determined persevering resistance . One precedent creates another.
... let me exhort and conjure you never to suffer an invasion of your po- litical constitution , however minute the instance may appear , to pass by , with- out a determined persevering resistance . One precedent creates another.
Página iii
Junius. out a determined persevering resistance . One precedent creates another . They soon accumulate , and constitute law . What yesterday was fact , to day is doc- trine . Examples are supposed to jus- tify the most dangerous measures ...
Junius. out a determined persevering resistance . One precedent creates another . They soon accumulate , and constitute law . What yesterday was fact , to day is doc- trine . Examples are supposed to jus- tify the most dangerous measures ...
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... create to their own minds , or greatly exag- gerate the evil they complain of . The laws of England provide , as effectually as any hu- man laws can do , for the protection of the subject , in his reputation , as well as in his person ...
... create to their own minds , or greatly exag- gerate the evil they complain of . The laws of England provide , as effectually as any hu- man laws can do , for the protection of the subject , in his reputation , as well as in his person ...
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... creates in ❝ him such an incapacity to be re - elected , that , ' at a subsequent election , any votes given to ' him are null and void , and that any other ' candidate , who , except the person expelled , " has the greatest number of ...
... creates in ❝ him such an incapacity to be re - elected , that , ' at a subsequent election , any votes given to ' him are null and void , and that any other ' candidate , who , except the person expelled , " has the greatest number of ...
Página 132
... create the first ; for this I presume is the amount of the questions proposed to Junius . If your correspondent had been at all versed in the law of parliament , or generally in the laws of this country , he would have seen that this ...
... create the first ; for this I presume is the amount of the questions proposed to Junius . If your correspondent had been at all versed in the law of parliament , or generally in the laws of this country , he would have seen that this ...
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Página 279 - They left their native land in search of freedom, and found it in a desert. Divided as they are into a thousand forms of policy and religion, there is one point in which they all agree : they equally detest the pageantry of a King, and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.
Página 265 - ... the complaints of your people. It is not however too late to correct the error of your education. We are still inclined to make an indulgent allowance for the pernicious lessons you received in your youth, and to form the most sanguine hopes from the natural benevolence of your disposition.
Página 183 - ... may not regret the virtues, which create respect, you may see with anguish, how much real importance and authority you have lost. Consider the character of an independent virtuous Duke of Bedford ; imagine what he might be in this country, then reflect one moment upon what you are. If it be possible for me to withdraw my attention from the fact, I will tell you in theory what such a man might be. Conscious of his own weight and importance, his conduct in parliament would be directed by nothing...
Página 271 - English gentleman may not be permitted to indulge, the same latitude was allowed him in the choice of his political principles, and in the spirit of maintaining them. I mean to state, not entirely to defend, his conduct. In the earnestness of his zeal he suffered some unwarrantable insinuations to escape him. He said more than moderate men would justify, but not enough to entitle him to the honour of your Majesty's personal resentment. The rays of royal indignation, collected upon him, served only...
Página 171 - We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care : we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.
Página 181 - You are so little accustomed to receive any marks of respect or esteem from the public, that if in the following lines a compliment or expression of applause should escape me, I fear you would consider it as a mockery of your established character, and perhaps an insult to your understanding.
Página 265 - Sir: It is the misfortune of your life and originally the cause of every reproach and distress which has attended your Government that you should never have been acquainted with the language of truth until you heard it in the complaints of your people.
Página 113 - But there were certain services to be formed for the favourite's security, or to gratify his resentments, which your predecessors in office had the wisdom or the virtue not to undertake. The moment this refractory spirit was discovered, their disgrace was determined. Lord Chatham, Mr. Grenville, and lord Rockingham, have successively had the honour to be dismissed for preferring their duty, as servants of the public, to those compliances which were expected from their station.
Página 268 - When you affectedly renounced the name of Englishman, believe me, Sir, you were persuaded to pay a very ill-judged compliment to one part of your subjects at the expense of another. While the natives of Scotland are not in actual rebellion, they are undoubtedly entitled to protection; nor do I mean to condemn the policy of giving some encouragement to the novelty of their affections for the House of Hanover.
Página 185 - ... and of offering to recover, at any price, the honour of his friendship. Though deceived perhaps in his youth, he would not, through the course of a long life, have invariably chosen his friends from among the most profligate of mankind. His own honour would have forbidden him from mixing his private pleasures or conversation with jockeys, gamesters, blasphemers, gladiators, or buffoons.