Opinions of Lord Brougham: On Politics, Theology, Law, Science, Education, Literature, &c., as Exhibited in His Parliamentary and Legal Speeches, and Miscellaneous WritingBaundry's European library, 1841 - 360 páginas |
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Página ix
... question , 242 . the Duke of Wellington's decla- ration against , 243 . it , 244 . prediction of evils resulting from Bill , a peace maker between the Lords and the people , 245 . parliamentary , 54 . repudiation of violence in , 68 ...
... question , 242 . the Duke of Wellington's decla- ration against , 243 . it , 244 . prediction of evils resulting from Bill , a peace maker between the Lords and the people , 245 . parliamentary , 54 . repudiation of violence in , 68 ...
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... questions in politics , lite- rature , and science , in which learned men of all countries , and all ages , must ever take a lively interest . The Editor has exercised great caution in the extracts which have been made , relying only on ...
... questions in politics , lite- rature , and science , in which learned men of all countries , and all ages , must ever take a lively interest . The Editor has exercised great caution in the extracts which have been made , relying only on ...
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... questions of Reform ; the unwearied energy and perseverance , and we may now add the suc- cess , of his efforts in the great national cause of the Education of the People ; the peculiarity of the position which he held , in the early ...
... questions of Reform ; the unwearied energy and perseverance , and we may now add the suc- cess , of his efforts in the great national cause of the Education of the People ; the peculiarity of the position which he held , in the early ...
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... question in che- mistry , to which science he had not at that time paid any attention . The Profes- sor seeing him perplexed , encouraged him , Come , come , Brougham , " said be , " I am quite sure you will do it if you try . " The ...
... question in che- mistry , to which science he had not at that time paid any attention . The Profes- sor seeing him perplexed , encouraged him , Come , come , Brougham , " said be , " I am quite sure you will do it if you try . " The ...
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... question of the Administration of Justice in Trinidad , and on that of Flogging in the Army . During this year 1811 , Mr. Brougham was also engaged in a legal cause , his mode of conducting which added much to his celebrity . A criminal ...
... question of the Administration of Justice in Trinidad , and on that of Flogging in the Army . During this year 1811 , Mr. Brougham was also engaged in a legal cause , his mode of conducting which added much to his celebrity . A criminal ...
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Página 107 - I once before took leave to remind your Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other.
Página 104 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 22 - ... upon that woolsack. What may follow your course of obstinacy, if persisted in, I cannot take upon me to predict, nor do I wish to conjecture. But this I know full well, that, as sure as man is mortal, and to err is human, justice deferred enhances the price at which you must purchase safety and peace ; nor can you expect to gather in another crop than they did who went before you, if you persevere in their utterly abominable husbandry of sowing injustice and reaping rebellion.
Página 166 - ... for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Página 295 - Scotland, in such outer darkness do they sit, that they support no cathedrals, maintain no pluralists, suffer no non-residence; nay, the poor benighted creatures are ignorant even of tithes. Not a sheaf, or a lamb, or a pig, or the value of a plough-penny do the hapless mortals render from year's end to year's end.
Página 339 - ... the present public seminaries must be enlarged; and some of the greater cities of the kingdom, especially the metropolis, must not be left destitute of the regular means within themselves of scientific education.
Página 22 - As your friend, as the friend of my order, as the friend of my country, as the faithful servant of my sovereign, I counsel you to assist with your uttermost efforts in preserving the peace, and upholding and perpetuating the constitution. Therefore, I pray and exhort you not to reject this measure.
Página 284 - ... perpendicular height, — saw the rocks excavated, and the gigantic power of man penetrating through miles of the solid mass, 'and gaining a great, a lasting, an almost perennial conquest over the powers of nature by his skill and...
Página 22 - It may even be the mace which rests upon that woolsack. What may follow your course of obstinacy, if persisted in, I cannot take upon me to predict, nor do I wish to conjecture. But this I know full well, that, as sure as man is mortal, and to err is human, justice deferred enhances the price at which you...