Mr. Redhead Yorke's weekly political review, Volume 21807 |
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... measure beyond all question . But , without relying on their authority in support of principles which appear too ... measures taken by the sub- scribers for carrying these resolutions into effect . For this purpose , at a subsequent ...
... measure beyond all question . But , without relying on their authority in support of principles which appear too ... measures taken by the sub- scribers for carrying these resolutions into effect . For this purpose , at a subsequent ...
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... OF THE LORD : " the hour of final retribution is not yet come ; the punishment , " in measure , " of him through whose vicious tergiversation , the enemy of God and man has been hitherto so unsuccessful , seems more consonant 20.
... OF THE LORD : " the hour of final retribution is not yet come ; the punishment , " in measure , " of him through whose vicious tergiversation , the enemy of God and man has been hitherto so unsuccessful , seems more consonant 20.
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... measures of general punishment , we shall learn to acknowledge the severity of the means employed to make the common enemy of Europe a dreadful example to mankind . Illi Justitiam confirmavere triumphi ; Præsentem docuere Deum ! nunc ...
... measures of general punishment , we shall learn to acknowledge the severity of the means employed to make the common enemy of Europe a dreadful example to mankind . Illi Justitiam confirmavere triumphi ; Præsentem docuere Deum ! nunc ...
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... measure was unavoidable , from the unhappy differences which existed between the crown and the commons respecting the government . In the present instance , ministers , without any assignable cause , except a little convenience ...
... measure was unavoidable , from the unhappy differences which existed between the crown and the commons respecting the government . In the present instance , ministers , without any assignable cause , except a little convenience ...
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... measure enforced , privation and distress would soon be felt throughout his vast dominions . Every article of impor ... measures which have been suggested , the substituting the use of sugar for that of corn in the distilleries and ...
... measure enforced , privation and distress would soon be felt throughout his vast dominions . Every article of impor ... measures which have been suggested , the substituting the use of sugar for that of corn in the distilleries and ...
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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.