The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 - Great Britain |
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... doctrine were ever adopted as a maxim of government , if the actions of men were to be prejudged from their opinions , it would sow the seeds of jealousy and distrust , it would give scope to private malice , it would sharpen the minds ...
... doctrine were ever adopted as a maxim of government , if the actions of men were to be prejudged from their opinions , it would sow the seeds of jealousy and distrust , it would give scope to private malice , it would sharpen the minds ...
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... doctrines , to be found by searching the scrip- tures , and the moral effects which it produced on the minds of those whom it was its duty to instruct . The noble lord had praised the moderation of the church . To this , however , there ...
... doctrines , to be found by searching the scrip- tures , and the moral effects which it produced on the minds of those whom it was its duty to instruct . The noble lord had praised the moderation of the church . To this , however , there ...
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... doctrine of protecting the church of England , if the practice had kept pace with the principle , the country must have been deprived of all those gallant characters of the kirk of Scotland , who had so emi- nently distinguished ...
... doctrine of protecting the church of England , if the practice had kept pace with the principle , the country must have been deprived of all those gallant characters of the kirk of Scotland , who had so emi- nently distinguished ...
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... doctrine had ever prevailed ; the stronger your strength by alliance , the less the necessity for a large army . Every man knew that alliances were less likely to increase the army than the navy . But he chiefly disliked the fallacy of ...
... doctrine had ever prevailed ; the stronger your strength by alliance , the less the necessity for a large army . Every man knew that alliances were less likely to increase the army than the navy . But he chiefly disliked the fallacy of ...
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... doctrine , because taxes ought only to be proposed by those who had the finances under their immediate care , and must best know how far any proposition which they made , was fit and practicable . That was , undoubtedly , his general ...
... doctrine , because taxes ought only to be proposed by those who had the finances under their immediate care , and must best know how far any proposition which they made , was fit and practicable . That was , undoubtedly , his general ...
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Page 270 - That, on every such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of Guilty or Not Guilty upon the whole Matter put in issue upon such indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed, by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information...
Page 151 - Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
Page 270 - ... upon the whole matter in issue : " BE IT THEREFORE DECLARED AND ENACTED, that, On every Such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue...
Page 219 - When that nameless thing which has been lately set up in France was described as "the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country...
Page 50 - France are just the reverse of each other in almost every particular, and in the whole spirit of the transaction. With us it was the case of a legal monarch attempting arbitrary power ; in France it is the case of an arbitrary monarch, beginning, from whatever cause, to legalize his authority.
Page 450 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Page 431 - Act, such person shall be at liberty to make his complaint thereof by appeal to the Justices of the Peace at the next general or quarter sessions of the Peace to be held for the county, riding, division, or place wherein the cause of such complaint shall arise, such appellant first giving to such Justices ten days...
Page 427 - Ye horrid towers, the abode of broken hearts ; Ye dungeons, and ye cages of despair, That monarchs have supplied from age to age With music, such as suits their sovereign ears, The sighs and groans of miserable men ! There's not an English heart that would not leap To hear that ye were fallen at last; to know That e'en our enemies, so oft employ'd In forging chains for us, themselves were free.
Page 45 - Ramillies or Blenheims could never have done it. Were we absolute conquerors, and France to lie prostrate at our feet, we should be ashamed to send a commission to settle their affairs, which could impose so hard a law upon the French, and so destructive of all their consequence as a nation, as that they had imposed on themselves.
Page 139 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain in parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws...