Contributions to the North British and Edinburgh reviews, 1844-1874 [by J. Moncreiff. 21 extracts to which a gen. title and contents have been prefixed]. |
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... position and real prin- ciples of the Whig party in Great Britain . The article was writ- ten in 1826 , when the full of politics was so profound as to give no note of preparation for the tempests about to break , and before the death ...
... position and real prin- ciples of the Whig party in Great Britain . The article was writ- ten in 1826 , when the full of politics was so profound as to give no note of preparation for the tempests about to break , and before the death ...
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... position long . In 1830 the Grey ministry came into office , and Jeffrey was made Lord Advocate - the first Whig lawyer who had held this appointment , excepting for the short interreg- num of 1806 , since the year 1782. He stood for ...
... position long . In 1830 the Grey ministry came into office , and Jeffrey was made Lord Advocate - the first Whig lawyer who had held this appointment , excepting for the short interreg- num of 1806 , since the year 1782. He stood for ...
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... position which his years , ability , and reputation gave him not indeed in the way of assumption or arrogance in judicial opinion - for his colleagues were great lawyers , and men of enlarged knowledge and long experience - and Jef frey ...
... position which his years , ability , and reputation gave him not indeed in the way of assumption or arrogance in judicial opinion - for his colleagues were great lawyers , and men of enlarged knowledge and long experience - and Jef frey ...
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... position should have been degraded , ruined , and brought to an untimely grave . A modest obelisk , on the Calton Hill of Edinburgh , stands as a lasting protest against their fate : but in the name of liberty and justice , let us not ...
... position should have been degraded , ruined , and brought to an untimely grave . A modest obelisk , on the Calton Hill of Edinburgh , stands as a lasting protest against their fate : but in the name of liberty and justice , let us not ...
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... position of these great men better than Cockburn ; but he as describing Scotland , not England , and to have entered on such a theme would have been altogether foreign to his purpose . But nothing that existed or could exist in England ...
... position of these great men better than Cockburn ; but he as describing Scotland , not England , and to have entered on such a theme would have been altogether foreign to his purpose . But nothing that existed or could exist in England ...
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Página 265 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 582 - Secondly, not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the. base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms, or the recruitment of men. Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties.
Página 250 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own.
Página 265 - Queen, and the others respectively by the President of the United States, the King of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation, and the Emperor of Brazil.
Página 582 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Página 262 - That Prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the Church above Presbyters, is, and hath been, a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people, ever since the Reformation, they having been reformed from Popery by Presbyters, and, therefore, ought to be abolished.
Página 272 - due diligence" referred to in the first and third of the said rules ought to be exercised by neutral governments in exact proportion to the risks to which either of the belligerents may be exposed, from a failure to fulfil the obligations of neutrality on their part...
Página 184 - Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannonshot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.
Página 209 - His eyes vacant and spiritless ; and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman than of a refined philosopher.
Página 279 - Europe have reason to be thankful, that he ' went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...