The New Monthly Magazine and Literary JournalHenry Colburn and Company, 1834 |
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... effect and pledge of their own importance . I am no friend to aristocracy , in the sense at least in which that word is usually understood . If it were not a bad habit to moot cases on the supposed ruin of the constitution , I should be ...
... effect and pledge of their own importance . I am no friend to aristocracy , in the sense at least in which that word is usually understood . If it were not a bad habit to moot cases on the supposed ruin of the constitution , I should be ...
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... effect in any of the particulars we have recited ? It exhibited only the most ferocious and unsparing tyranny , established by the usurpation of the most violent tempers and the coarsest manners ; and it ended in a military despotism ...
... effect in any of the particulars we have recited ? It exhibited only the most ferocious and unsparing tyranny , established by the usurpation of the most violent tempers and the coarsest manners ; and it ended in a military despotism ...
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... effect of the redundant supply of food from the youth of a new country . Land is cheap , taxation small , labour dear : hence the comforts are many , because the wants are few . Luxuries , refinements , except in the thickly - peopled ...
... effect of the redundant supply of food from the youth of a new country . Land is cheap , taxation small , labour dear : hence the comforts are many , because the wants are few . Luxuries , refinements , except in the thickly - peopled ...
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... effect of preventing the obstinacy of prejudice likely to be engendered by stagnation . Again - if the peerage be made elective , in whom is the election to rest ? Reside where it may , its consequence would be only to lessen the ...
... effect of preventing the obstinacy of prejudice likely to be engendered by stagnation . Again - if the peerage be made elective , in whom is the election to rest ? Reside where it may , its consequence would be only to lessen the ...
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... effect , because it appeared that the prosecutor , as well as the prisoner , lived in London , where the latter had , for two years previous to his being apprehended for the post - office robbery , been ostensibly car- rying on the ...
... effect , because it appeared that the prosecutor , as well as the prisoner , lived in London , where the latter had , for two years previous to his being apprehended for the post - office robbery , been ostensibly car- rying on the ...
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Page 285 - Never indeed was any man more contented with doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.
Page 518 - Wales : together with their provisional allowance during confinement ; as reported to the society for the discharge and relief of small debtors, in April, May, June, &c., 18oo. 4to., 18oo. An account of the rise, progress and present state of the society for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts throughout England and Wales.
Page 247 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 191 - Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.* Ey this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom.
Page 245 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone...
Page 192 - By this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom. It carries an imposing and majestic aspect. It has a pedigree and illustrating ancestors. It has its bearings and its ensigns armorial. It has its gallery of portraits; its monumental inscriptions; its records, evidences, and titles.
Page 9 - To be bred in a place of estimation ; to see nothing low and sordid from one's infancy ; to be taught to respect one's self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye ; to look early to public opinion ; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large...
Page 400 - Before I had learned from the note the name and business of my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye.
Page 1 - All this violent cry against the nobility I take to be a mere work of art. To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation in any man.
Page 402 - I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away this life of care, Which I have borne, and still must bear, Till death like sleep might...