Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly miscellany) [afterw.] The Political review and monthly mirror of the times, Volume 9Benjamin Flower 1811 |
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... JUSTICE , which must at length finally overcome all opposition ; although the means made use of by the Almighty Ruler of events to accom- plish his purposes , may be very different from what the most enlightened , and the most virtuous ...
... JUSTICE , which must at length finally overcome all opposition ; although the means made use of by the Almighty Ruler of events to accom- plish his purposes , may be very different from what the most enlightened , and the most virtuous ...
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... justice of the Court of King's Bench , Lord ELLENBOROUGH , declared in his place in the house of Lords , " was only becoming criminals at the bar of the " Old Bailey " -until these most disgraceful records are blotted from the British ...
... justice of the Court of King's Bench , Lord ELLENBOROUGH , declared in his place in the house of Lords , " was only becoming criminals at the bar of the " Old Bailey " -until these most disgraceful records are blotted from the British ...
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... justice to certain impor- tant subjects , line must be upon line , and precept upon precept . I hope I shall be excused adding , ( the reflection is not without satisfaction ) -That it is not impossible after my course in this stage of ...
... justice to certain impor- tant subjects , line must be upon line , and precept upon precept . I hope I shall be excused adding , ( the reflection is not without satisfaction ) -That it is not impossible after my course in this stage of ...
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... justice to posterity ; the fame and Isafety of the kingdom ; all with voice imperious , forbid us to disguise our thoughts and smother our feelings .... It is of ge- " neral grievances , grievances sorely felt in all ranks of life ; of ...
... justice to posterity ; the fame and Isafety of the kingdom ; all with voice imperious , forbid us to disguise our thoughts and smother our feelings .... It is of ge- " neral grievances , grievances sorely felt in all ranks of life ; of ...
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... justice , and on the atten- tion which this most interesting subject is exciting in both branches of the legislature . One instance indeed , has occurred , which is a proof of the sad want of principle in the proprietors of public ...
... justice , and on the atten- tion which this most interesting subject is exciting in both branches of the legislature . One instance indeed , has occurred , which is a proof of the sad want of principle in the proprietors of public ...
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Page 16 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them.
Page 212 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 212 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in His Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does He then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen...
Page 145 - To understand political power right and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 16 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 212 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it...
Page 218 - ... up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed, should be disputing, reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity...
Page 212 - Commons ; and from thence derives itself to a gallant bravery and wellgrounded contempt of their enemies, as if there were no small number of as great spirits among us as his was, who when Rome was nigh besieged by Hannibal, being in the city, bought that piece of ground at no cheap rate, whereon Hannibal himself encamped his own regiment.
Page 212 - We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Page 218 - Reformation itself: what does He then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen? I say, as His manner is, first to us, though we mark not the method of His counsels, and are unworthy.