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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... . Lord Brougham is eminently a clear headed man ; and he is distinguished for his argumentative powers . Through many years of public life , during which we have watched him , we never yet saw him at fault LORD BROUGHAM . 19.
... . Lord Brougham is eminently a clear headed man ; and he is distinguished for his argumentative powers . Through many years of public life , during which we have watched him , we never yet saw him at fault LORD BROUGHAM . 19.
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... never yet saw him at fault , on even the most intricate question . He has peculiarly the faculty of analysis ; and more than any man we ever knew , that of keeping in his own mind a comprehensive view of the whole bearings of a question ...
... never yet saw him at fault , on even the most intricate question . He has peculiarly the faculty of analysis ; and more than any man we ever knew , that of keeping in his own mind a comprehensive view of the whole bearings of a question ...
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... never to pronounce sentence , in the most trifling case , without a hearing . Will you make this an exception ? Are you really prepared to determine , but not to hear , the mighty cause upon which a nation's hopes and fears hang ? You ...
... never to pronounce sentence , in the most trifling case , without a hearing . Will you make this an exception ? Are you really prepared to determine , but not to hear , the mighty cause upon which a nation's hopes and fears hang ? You ...
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... never appeared in the character of a partizan ; he ħas always been the consistent supporter of liberal measures per se , and not because they were the means adopted , by a party , to gain political power . Together with his political ...
... never appeared in the character of a partizan ; he ħas always been the consistent supporter of liberal measures per se , and not because they were the means adopted , by a party , to gain political power . Together with his political ...
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... never unnecessarily and wantonly exercise privileges that may be misconstrued . The House can never suffer in the estimation of the country but through its own acts ; and they can only bring themselves into contempt by waging a war in ...
... never unnecessarily and wantonly exercise privileges that may be misconstrued . The House can never suffer in the estimation of the country but through its own acts ; and they can only bring themselves into contempt by waging a war in ...
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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...