The Letters of JuliusW. Sams, 1821 - 188 páginas |
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... wish to address to you on the state of the representa- tion . Previous to entering on this topic , it may be well to quote the following judicious remarks : --- " I am convinced that some apparent defects are equally useful in the ...
... wish to address to you on the state of the representa- tion . Previous to entering on this topic , it may be well to quote the following judicious remarks : --- " I am convinced that some apparent defects are equally useful in the ...
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... wishes . As the populus of the Romans was contradistinguished to the plebs , so should the people of England be distin- guished from the populace . This dis- tinction need be neither invidious nor irritating it might influence our ...
... wishes . As the populus of the Romans was contradistinguished to the plebs , so should the people of England be distin- guished from the populace . This dis- tinction need be neither invidious nor irritating it might influence our ...
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... wish to reprint my Letters such as they appeared in the first instance , though written very frequently in great haste , and under strongly excited feel- ings . The rapidity of the motions , and the multiplicity of the manœuvres of the ...
... wish to reprint my Letters such as they appeared in the first instance , though written very frequently in great haste , and under strongly excited feel- ings . The rapidity of the motions , and the multiplicity of the manœuvres of the ...
Página xxxix
... wish to see the innate principles of truth and reason consulted ; and the philoso- phy of life gleaned from the joint stores of the past and the passing hour . Were a miracle to erase all our records , and con- sign to oblivion all our ...
... wish to see the innate principles of truth and reason consulted ; and the philoso- phy of life gleaned from the joint stores of the past and the passing hour . Were a miracle to erase all our records , and con- sign to oblivion all our ...
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... wish for a Parlia- mentary inquiry ; they only desire an outrageous clamour for it , that the people may be thrown into a fever of desperation on hearing it denied , which , bursting every barrier of restraint , shall at a blow effect ...
... wish for a Parlia- mentary inquiry ; they only desire an outrageous clamour for it , that the people may be thrown into a fever of desperation on hearing it denied , which , bursting every barrier of restraint , shall at a blow effect ...
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abuse accusation adultery amongst assassination assure attempt authority bill blasphemous blood cause character charge City of Westminster civil Cobbett common sense conceive conduct Constitution conviction Courier crime criminal Crown dare declaration defence degenerate Whigs degradation dignity disaffection Doctor Watson Duke de Berri Editor effects Electors England equally evil fact faction falsehood favour fear feeling France gentlemen give grand jury guilty honour House hustings innocence Jacobin John Cam Hobhouse JULIUS justice King Lambton late LETTER liament libels liberty Lord Lord Castlereagh Lord John Russell loyal Madam Magistrates Majesty ment misprision of treason Nation never Newgate opinion opposition outrage Parlia Parliament party political prejudge present proof prove purpose Queen rabble racter Radical Regicides render retributive justice sedition shew Sir F Sir Francis Burdett sophisms Sovereign suffer Suffrage supposed thing Times-serving tion traitors treason trial truth verdict Westminster wish Wooler worthy wretched
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Página 118 - Separating the duty of a patriot from that of an advocate, he must go on, reckless of consequences, though it should be his unhappy fate to involve his country in confusion.
Página 130 - On the tenth day of April, the duke of Devonshire represented, in the house of lords, that triennial elections served to keep up party divisions; .to raise and foment feuds in private families ; to produce ruinous expenses, and give occasion to the cabals and intrigues of foreign princes ; that it became the wisdom of such an august assembly, to apply proper remedies to an evil that might be attended with the most dangerous consequences, especially in the present temper of the nation, as the spirit...
Página 86 - Justice would be to calumniate that sacred name ; and for me to suppress an expression of my opinion on the subject, would be tacitly to lend myself to my own destruction, as well as to an imposition upon the nation and the world. In the House of Commons I can discover no better grounds of security.
Página 180 - Middlesex, baronet, being a seditious, malicious, and ill-disposed person, and unlawfully and maliciously devising and intending to raise and excite discontent, disaffection, and sedition among the liege subjects of our lord the present king, and amongst the soldiers of our said lord the king, and to move and excite the liege subjects of our said lord the king...
Página 85 - ... revilers, and traitors had not abounded. Your Court became much less a scene of polished manners and refined intercourse than of low intrigue and scurrility.
Página 16 - Commons had pronounced the measure " disappointing to the hopes of parliament, derogatory to the dignity of the crown, and injurious to the best interests of the empire...
Página 120 - My lords, I call upon you to pause. You stand on the brink of a precipice. You may go on in your precipitate career — you may pronounce against your Queen, but it will be the last judgment you ever will pronounce.
Página 8 - The sending down of the green bag is equivalent to the finding of a true bill by a grand jury. The...
Página 121 - Queen, but it will he the last judgment you will ever pronounce. Her persecutors will fail in their object, and the ruin with which they seek to cover the Queen, will return to overwhelm themselves. Save the country, my Lords, from the horrors that await it— save yourselves from impending...