The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 114A. Constable, 1861 |
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... constitution of the Privy Council , which is almost incredible , when we recollect that two of the most ... constitutional grounds it would be most improper to place this vast amount of patronage and influence , affecting almost all the ...
... constitution of the Privy Council , which is almost incredible , when we recollect that two of the most ... constitutional grounds it would be most improper to place this vast amount of patronage and influence , affecting almost all the ...
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... constitution , which we read in the Political Treatise of Aristotle , must have been written . Com- mending the working of her institutions , which he selects toge- ther with those of Crete and Lacedæmon for special encomium , this ...
... constitution , which we read in the Political Treatise of Aristotle , must have been written . Com- mending the working of her institutions , which he selects toge- ther with those of Crete and Lacedæmon for special encomium , this ...
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... constitution of colonies in general ; that colonies can- not be considered without reference to mother countries , nor mother countries without reference to the partition and popu- lation of the world . By an analogous train of ...
... constitution of colonies in general ; that colonies can- not be considered without reference to mother countries , nor mother countries without reference to the partition and popu- lation of the world . By an analogous train of ...
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... constitution of the Scottish Presbytery , we shall here content ourselves with re- plying to Mr. Buckle , that if this powerful and irresistible general law has been , as he asserts , in equal operation in the two kingdoms - if Scotland ...
... constitution of the Scottish Presbytery , we shall here content ourselves with re- plying to Mr. Buckle , that if this powerful and irresistible general law has been , as he asserts , in equal operation in the two kingdoms - if Scotland ...
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... constitutional rights of the nobles and the burgesses in- vested the Crown with absolute power : and the Crown of Spain invested with absolute power meant Philip II . in the plenitude of his malignant greatness , until it dwindled to ...
... constitutional rights of the nobles and the burgesses in- vested the Crown with absolute power : and the Crown of Spain invested with absolute power meant Philip II . in the plenitude of his malignant greatness , until it dwindled to ...
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Page 167 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 274 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
Page 550 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 511 - WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height Which step out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground...
Page 543 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 552 - But if the Government be National with regard to the operation of its powers, it changes its aspect again when we contemplate it in relation to the extent of its powers. The idea of a National Government involves in it, not only an authority over the individual citizens, but an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things, so far as they are objects of lawful Government.
Page 407 - That prelacy and the superiority of any office in the Church above presbyters is and hath been a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation (they having reformed from popery by presbyters), and therefore ought to be abolished...
Page 543 - One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Page 415 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.