Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1850 - 2060 pages |
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... INCREASE of CRIME and TRANSPORTATION . To the Political Treatises , which occupy about half the Work , have been added a variety of Essays on subjects of HISTORY , LITERATURE , and TASTE , which had formed the recreation of the Author ...
... INCREASE of CRIME and TRANSPORTATION . To the Political Treatises , which occupy about half the Work , have been added a variety of Essays on subjects of HISTORY , LITERATURE , and TASTE , which had formed the recreation of the Author ...
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... increase the effects of the extraordinary growth of our manufactures , and the prodigious demand for labour by the vast armaments of the war - is not , of itself , any sure criterion of general prosperity ; but , coupled with a ...
... increase the effects of the extraordinary growth of our manufactures , and the prodigious demand for labour by the vast armaments of the war - is not , of itself , any sure criterion of general prosperity ; but , coupled with a ...
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... increase of our population is the same with that which has witnessed our total emancipation from any dependence on external nations for subsistence ; and the universal com- plaint of farm produce being redundant in the hands of the ...
... increase of our population is the same with that which has witnessed our total emancipation from any dependence on external nations for subsistence ; and the universal com- plaint of farm produce being redundant in the hands of the ...
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... increase of happiness , will perhaps arrive at the melancholy conclusion , that that line of splendour is about to terminate ; that the sun which has for so many ages illuminated the world is sinking in the west , and that a long night ...
... increase of happiness , will perhaps arrive at the melancholy conclusion , that that line of splendour is about to terminate ; that the sun which has for so many ages illuminated the world is sinking in the west , and that a long night ...
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... increase the privileges of the aristocracy , crush the freedom of the press , then it is manifest that the aristocratic class has become too power- ful in the legislature . If the result of elections has been to increase this tendency ...
... increase the privileges of the aristocracy , crush the freedom of the press , then it is manifest that the aristocratic class has become too power- ful in the legislature . If the result of elections has been to increase this tendency ...
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Page 473 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 391 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
Page 237 - ... 2. That through a determined and persevering, but, at the same time, judicious and temperate enforcement of such measures, this House looks forward to a progressive improvement in the character of the slave population, such as may prepare them for a participation in those civil rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other classes of his majesty's subjects.
Page 473 - ... loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...
Page 338 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 228 - We have thought fit, by, and with, the Advice of our Privy Council, to...
Page 99 - ... regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the safety of the State.
Page 307 - Come, bright Improvement ! on the car of Time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
Page 21 - Those leaders themselves, though they originally may have meant nothing but their own aggrandisement, become many of them in time the dupes of their own sophistry, and are as eager for this great reformation as the weakest and foolishest of their followers. Even though the leaders should have preserved their own heads, as indeed they commonly do, free from this fanaticism, yet they...
Page 481 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.