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... effect . For this purpose , at a subsequent general meeting , a committee was appointed , of fifty gentlemen , from such subscri- bers , of 1001. and upwards , as expressed their willingness to undertake the office . This committee ...
... effect . For this purpose , at a subsequent general meeting , a committee was appointed , of fifty gentlemen , from such subscri- bers , of 1001. and upwards , as expressed their willingness to undertake the office . This committee ...
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... effects , these consequences will ensue again ; with this addition , that the donations of the Patriotic Fund are ... effect they must naturally produce , of animating those who receive them to new ex- ertions , is equally obvious and ...
... effects , these consequences will ensue again ; with this addition , that the donations of the Patriotic Fund are ... effect they must naturally produce , of animating those who receive them to new ex- ertions , is equally obvious and ...
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... inclination may prompt , and that such conduct will defeat the best concerted plans of ministers , is indisputable ; and the effect of the assertion would have been heightened , if his lordship had detailed those sagacious plans 9.
... inclination may prompt , and that such conduct will defeat the best concerted plans of ministers , is indisputable ; and the effect of the assertion would have been heightened , if his lordship had detailed those sagacious plans 9.
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... effect upon his savage heart , not even the entreaties of his amiable wife , whose excellent qualities we all ad- mire . " The ministers , whose duties were defined by the constitution , if that act can be so named , could never ...
... effect upon his savage heart , not even the entreaties of his amiable wife , whose excellent qualities we all ad- mire . " The ministers , whose duties were defined by the constitution , if that act can be so named , could never ...
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... effect , had the king of Prussia united his forces to those of the confederated powers . All the grounds of former jealousies between the houses of Brandenburgh and Austria had ceased to operate , from the moment that a third power ...
... effect , had the king of Prussia united his forces to those of the confederated powers . All the grounds of former jealousies between the houses of Brandenburgh and Austria had ceased to operate , from the moment that a third power ...
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Page 90 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.
Page 187 - It is first, and last, and midst in our minds. For. taking ground on that religious system, of which we are now in possession, we continue to act on the early received, and uniformly continued sense of mankind.
Page 277 - That it is contrary to the. first duties of the confidential servants of the Crown to restrain themselves by any pledge, expressed or implied, from offering to the King any advice which the course of circumstances may render necessary for the welfare and security of any part of his Majesty's extensive empire.
Page 268 - ... both as to place and process, as its functionaries may direct. The presence of the highest judicial authorities, to be assembled at this place within a few days, the means of pursuing a sounder course of proceedings here than elsewhere, and the aid of the Executive means, should the judges have occasion to use them...
Page 405 - Law, — in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and debasement the most sordid and the most pernicious. A lawyer now is nothing more (I speak of ninetynine in a hundred at least), to use some of Tully's words, "nisi leguleius quidem cautus, et acutus praeco actionum, cantor formularum, auceps syllabarum.
Page 249 - He found at once that the attachment of the Western country to the present Union was not to be shaken; that its dissolution could not be effected with the consent of its inhabitants, and that his resources were inadequate as yet to effect it by force.
Page 11 - That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom...
Page 90 - Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal ; but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which though rarely called for are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country and some of them to its preservation.
Page 187 - This consecration is made, that all who administer in the government of men, in which they stand in the person of God Himself, should have high and worthy notions of their function and destination ; that their hope should be full of immortality ; that they should not look to the paltry pelf of the moment...
Page 90 - The present consideration of a national establishment, for education particularly, is rendered proper by this circumstance; also that, if Congress, approving the proposition, shall yet think it more eligible to found it on a donation of lands, they have it now in their power to endow it with those which will be among the earliest to produce the necessary income.