Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 36
... constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the subsidies are voted ; but no sooner is the tyrant ...
... constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the subsidies are voted ; but no sooner is the tyrant ...
Pagina 43
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. constitutional maxim is there which applies to the former and not to the latter ... constitution exempts the King from responsibility , for we know that all such maxims , however excellent , have ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. constitutional maxim is there which applies to the former and not to the latter ... constitution exempts the King from responsibility , for we know that all such maxims , however excellent , have ...
Pagina 45
... constitution far more perfect than any which had at that time been known in the world . He reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise even from Lord Clarendon . For himself he demanded indeed the first ...
... constitution far more perfect than any which had at that time been known in the world . He reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise even from Lord Clarendon . For himself he demanded indeed the first ...
Pagina 46
... constitution is infinitely better than the best despot . But we suspect , that at the time of which we speak , the violence of religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to impossible . The choice lay ...
... constitution is infinitely better than the best despot . But we suspect , that at the time of which we speak , the violence of religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to impossible . The choice lay ...
Pagina 82
... constitutional taint . When the reputation of the offender is lost , he too often flings the remains of his virtue after it in despair . The Highland gentleman who , a century ago , lived by taking black mail from his neighbours ...
... constitutional taint . When the reputation of the offender is lost , he too often flings the remains of his virtue after it in despair . The Highland gentleman who , a century ago , lived by taking black mail from his neighbours ...
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