Europe: Or, A General Survey of the Present Situation of the Principal Powers; with Conjectures on Their Future ProspectsO. Everett, 1822 - 451 strán (strany) |
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Strana 90
... price paid originally by the new purchasers to the govern- ment . This construction appears rather forced . Whether or not it was his first intention , the gene- ral effect upon the public is precisely the same . They find the ...
... price paid originally by the new purchasers to the govern- ment . This construction appears rather forced . Whether or not it was his first intention , the gene- ral effect upon the public is precisely the same . They find the ...
Strana 204
... price for it . In both , if he attempts to step out of this circle , and interfere in the slightest degree by deed or word with the action of government , his property , liberty and life , are instantly forfeit ; and the only difference ...
... price for it . In both , if he attempts to step out of this circle , and interfere in the slightest degree by deed or word with the action of government , his property , liberty and life , are instantly forfeit ; and the only difference ...
Strana 281
... price of all the necessaries of life , without augmenting the wages of labour in proportion ; because the increased supply by the augmentation of popula- tion has at least kept pace with the increased de mand . Hence the labourers have ...
... price of all the necessaries of life , without augmenting the wages of labour in proportion ; because the increased supply by the augmentation of popula- tion has at least kept pace with the increased de mand . Hence the labourers have ...
Strana 282
... price of the ne- cessaries of life , upon a few shillings a week ; while other families monopolise incomes of from 150 to 300,000 pounds ; and fortunes descend from father to son , if some late accounts may be believed , of more than ...
... price of the ne- cessaries of life , upon a few shillings a week ; while other families monopolise incomes of from 150 to 300,000 pounds ; and fortunes descend from father to son , if some late accounts may be believed , of more than ...
Strana 283
... price of produce would ruin the landholders , who are themselves the lawgivers , and will never sign their own death warrant . duce the taxes : this can only be done by diminish- ing the annual expences , or cutting down the debt . The ...
... price of produce would ruin the landholders , who are themselves the lawgivers , and will never sign their own death warrant . duce the taxes : this can only be done by diminish- ing the annual expences , or cutting down the debt . The ...
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Strana 371 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country, then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months, to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Strana 371 - ... whose occupations are for the common subsistence and benefit of mankind, shall be allowed to continue their respective employments unmolested in their persons.
Strana 372 - ... molested in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt, or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted by the armed force of the enemy...
Strana 369 - ... nee erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et immutabilis continebit, unusque erit communis quasi magister et imperator omnium deus, ille legis huius inventor, disceptator, lator; cui qui non parebit, ipse se fugiet ac naturam hominis aspernatus hoc ipso luet maximas poenas, etiamsi cetera supplicia, quae putantur, effugerit...
Strana 372 - ... and all merchant and trading vessels employed in exchanging the products of different places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences, and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained and more general, shall be allowed to pass free and unmolested ; and neither of the contracting powers shall grant or issue any commission to any private armed vessels, empowering them to take or destroy such trading vessels, or interrupt such commerce.
Strana 270 - Such a writer as Cumberland, for example, who stands infinitely below Burke on the scale of intellect, may yet be regarded as his equal or superior in purely literary accomplishments, taken in this exclusive sense. The style of Burke is undoubtedly one of the most splendid forms in which the English language has ever been exhibited. It displays the happy and difficult union of all the richness and magnificence that good taste admits, with a perfectly easy construction. In Burke we see the manly movement...
Strana 271 - ... we admire in Burke, as in a fine antique statue, the grace with which the large flowing robe adapts itself to the majestic dignity of the person. But with all his literary excellence, the peculiar merits of this great man were, perhaps, the faculty of profound and philosophical thought, and the moral courage which led him to disregard personal inconvenience in the expression of his sentiments. Deep thought is the informing soul that everywhere sustains and inspires the imposing grandeur of his...
Strana 412 - Sharon Turner's History of the AngloSaxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest.
Strana 275 - ... regards merely the use of unpremeditated language, it is far from being a difficult attainment. A writer, whose opportunities of observation give weight to his opinion, says, in speaking of the style of the younger Pitt, " This profuse and interminable flow of words is not in itself either a rare or remarkable endowment. It is wholly a thing of habit, and is exercised by every village lawyer with various degrees of power and grace.
Strana 272 - ... of eloquence demands the union of the noblest qualities of character as well as intellect. To think is the highest exercise of the mind ; to say what you think, the boldest effort of moral courage ; and both these things are required for a really powerful writer. Eloquence without thoughts is a mere parade of words; and no man can express with spirit and vigour any thoughts but his own.