Opinions of Lord Brougham: On Politics, Theology, Law, Science, Education, Literature, &c., as Exhibited in His Parliamentary and Legal Speeches, and Miscellaneous WritingBaundry's European library, 1841 - Всего страниц: 360 |
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... suppose the man who has thus multiplied the objects of his exertion to be of necessity superficial ; superficial , that is , in the sense of shallowness or ignorance . Ordinary minds are bound by fetters , no doubt . Custom has rendered ...
... suppose the man who has thus multiplied the objects of his exertion to be of necessity superficial ; superficial , that is , in the sense of shallowness or ignorance . Ordinary minds are bound by fetters , no doubt . Custom has rendered ...
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... suppose that the noble lord intended to practise a mockery upon his Sovereign- that a communication so private and confidential could have been forwarded without some important object - important at least to the party sending it ; and ...
... suppose that the noble lord intended to practise a mockery upon his Sovereign- that a communication so private and confidential could have been forwarded without some important object - important at least to the party sending it ; and ...
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... suppose that the object in view was to be best attained by artillery , and give advice to that effect to his Sovereign ; another by infantry ; another , as in a late case , by a coup - de - main ; whilst another might give the ...
... suppose that the object in view was to be best attained by artillery , and give advice to that effect to his Sovereign ; another by infantry ; another , as in a late case , by a coup - de - main ; whilst another might give the ...
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... suppose the sphere of such influence much more contracted than it really is . If any one is desirous of perceiving how widely it extends , I think I can furnish him with a medium through which he may view it . When the measures of the ...
... suppose the sphere of such influence much more contracted than it really is . If any one is desirous of perceiving how widely it extends , I think I can furnish him with a medium through which he may view it . When the measures of the ...
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... suppose that a statement , not one item of which is overcharged , containing reflections on Government , or on an individual , is pub- lished , and that the author is prosecuted by Government , or the individual : let the statement be ...
... suppose that a statement , not one item of which is overcharged , containing reflections on Government , or on an individual , is pub- lished , and that the author is prosecuted by Government , or the individual : let the statement be ...
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Стр. 107 - I once before took leave to remind your Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other.
Стр. 104 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Стр. 22 - ... upon that woolsack. What may follow your course of obstinacy, if persisted in, I cannot take upon me to predict, nor do I wish to conjecture. But this I know full well, that, as sure as man is mortal, and to err is human, justice deferred enhances the price at which you must purchase safety and peace ; nor can you expect to gather in another crop than they did who went before you, if you persevere in their utterly abominable husbandry of sowing injustice and reaping rebellion.
Стр. 166 - ... for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Стр. 295 - Scotland, in such outer darkness do they sit, that they support no cathedrals, maintain no pluralists, suffer no non-residence; nay, the poor benighted creatures are ignorant even of tithes. Not a sheaf, or a lamb, or a pig, or the value of a plough-penny do the hapless mortals render from year's end to year's end.
Стр. 339 - ... the present public seminaries must be enlarged; and some of the greater cities of the kingdom, especially the metropolis, must not be left destitute of the regular means within themselves of scientific education.
Стр. 22 - As your friend, as the friend of my order, as the friend of my country, as the faithful servant of my sovereign, I counsel you to assist with your uttermost efforts in preserving the peace, and upholding and perpetuating the constitution. Therefore, I pray and exhort you not to reject this measure.
Стр. 284 - ... perpendicular height, — saw the rocks excavated, and the gigantic power of man penetrating through miles of the solid mass, 'and gaining a great, a lasting, an almost perennial conquest over the powers of nature by his skill and...
Стр. 22 - It may even be the mace which rests upon that woolsack. What may follow your course of obstinacy, if persisted in, I cannot take upon me to predict, nor do I wish to conjecture. But this I know full well, that, as sure as man is mortal, and to err is human, justice deferred enhances the price at which you...