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... equal justice ? To the imperial parliament , which , by the tithe composition acts , at least equalised the burthen , by enforcing contribution from pasture lands ; and which , by the more recent measure of the rent charge , relieved ...
... equal justice ? To the imperial parliament , which , by the tithe composition acts , at least equalised the burthen , by enforcing contribution from pasture lands ; and which , by the more recent measure of the rent charge , relieved ...
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... equal , they cannot surpass , the integrity of his public conduct ; who is indeed endowed with every good , as well as every great qualification , and of whom it may fairly be said , ' Nil non laudandum aut dixit aut sensit aut fecit ...
... equal , they cannot surpass , the integrity of his public conduct ; who is indeed endowed with every good , as well as every great qualification , and of whom it may fairly be said , ' Nil non laudandum aut dixit aut sensit aut fecit ...
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... equal participation of all blessings and advantages arising in the state , and by the removal of those jealousies which ever subsist between kingdoms or states standing in the same relation to each other as England has stood hitherto ...
... equal participation of all blessings and advantages arising in the state , and by the removal of those jealousies which ever subsist between kingdoms or states standing in the same relation to each other as England has stood hitherto ...
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... equal participation in the authority of which is thought so degrading to Ireland . " It requires the extraordinary magni- fying powers of Mr. O'Connell to discover independence in such a system , which Mr. Pitt very justly designated ...
... equal participation in the authority of which is thought so degrading to Ireland . " It requires the extraordinary magni- fying powers of Mr. O'Connell to discover independence in such a system , which Mr. Pitt very justly designated ...
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... equal to one - eighth of the sum to be derived from the same sources here . He should , therefore , only set down five millions for Scotland , though , in his estimation of the growing prosperity of that country , too small a sum ...
... equal to one - eighth of the sum to be derived from the same sources here . He should , therefore , only set down five millions for Scotland , though , in his estimation of the growing prosperity of that country , too small a sum ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 95 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Seite 77 - Swift somewhere says, that he who could make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, was a greater benefactor to the human race than all the politicians that ever existed.
Seite 44 - I found them disposed to be friends of America, in which I endeavoured to confirm them, with the expectation that our growing weight might in time be thrown into their scale, and, by joining our interests with theirs, a more equitable treatment from this nation might be obtained for them as well as for us.
Seite 95 - We are now members for a rich commercial city \ this city, however, is but a part of a rich commercial nation, the interests of which are various, multiform and intricate.
Seite 20 - This polyglot of wealth, this museum of curiosities, the pension list, embraces every link in the human chain, every description of men, women, and children, from the exalted excellence of a Hawke or a Rodney, to the debased situation of a lady who humbleth herself that she may be exalted.
Seite 54 - That it be the first article of the Union of the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, that the said kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland shall, upon the first day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, and for ever after, be united into one kingdom, by the name of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ; and that the royal style and titles appertaining to the imperial crown of the.
Seite 49 - By the union with England the middling and inferior ranks of people in Scotland gained a complete deliverance from the power of an aristocracy which had always before oppressed them.
Seite 122 - From enthusiasm to imposture the step is perilous and slippery; the demon of Socrates affords a memorable instance how a wise man may deceive himself, how a good man may deceive others, how the conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state between self-illusion and voluntary fraud.
Seite 67 - O'Connor. The form of Mr. O'Connor's motion was for the appointment of a Select Committee " to inquire and report on the means by which the dissolution of the Parliament of Ireland was effected ; on the effects of that measure upon Ireland, and upon the labourers in husbandry and operatives in manufactures in England ; and on the probable consequences of continuing the Legislative Union between both countries.
Seite 18 - A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cottar dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but an unlimited submission. Disrespect or anything tending towards sauciness he may punish with his cane or his horsewhip with the most perfect security. A poor man would have his bones broken if he offered to lift his hand in his own defence.