Essays in Politics, Wherein Some of the Political Questions of the Day are Reviewed from a Constitutional and Historical StandpointK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 190 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Essays in Politics, Wherein Some of the Political Questions of the Day Are ... C. B. Roylance (Clement Boulton Ro Kent Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Essays in Politics, Wherein Some of the Political Questions of the Day Are ... C. B. Roylance (Clement Boulton Ro Kent Sin vista previa disponible - 2012 |
Essays in Politics, Wherein Some of the Political Questions of the Day Are ... C. B. Roylance Kent Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
American Constitution amongst Australian authority become Bill British Parliament Cabinet Canada Canadian Cantons citizens classes co-operative colonies condition Congress considered corn laws Crown democracy democratic difficulty doubt elected electors Empire England executive exists fact Federal Assembly federal constitution Federal Council federal government federal union forms of government France French German German Empire Government interference hand House of Commons human important instance institutions interests king Landamman lative legis legislative interference legislature Leone Levi less liberty Lord Lord John Russell ment modern monarch party passed political sovereign popular powers practical present century President Professor Rogers provinces question railway Referendum reign relations remarkable republic Roman satrap says scientific discovery seems Senate Sir H. S. Maine socialism socialistic society sovereign body sovereignty Statute Supreme Court Switzerland telegraph tendency things Ticino tion tive trades unions United Vict wages week whole
Pasajes populares
Página 53 - The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
Página 53 - The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people: and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.
Página 30 - ... downwards; she could dismiss all the sailors too; she could sell off all our ships of war and all our naval stores; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall, and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a 'university'; she could dismiss most of the civil servants; she could pardon all offenders.
Página v - Another error which doth succeed that which we last mentioned, is, that after the distribution of particular arts and sciences, men have abandoned universality, or philosophia prima ; which cannot but cease, and stop all progression. For no perfect discovery can be made upon a flat or a level : neither is it possible to discover the more remote, and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
Página vi - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Página 52 - I must declare and avow that in the master states of the world I know not the people or senate who, in such a complication of difficult circumstances, can stand in preference to the delegates of America assembled in General Congress at Philadelphia.
Página 36 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
Página 134 - ... principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures, or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime ; or who 3.
Página 59 - Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
Página 107 - ... by our toil what they spend in their pride ? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread ; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.