The Pamphleteer, Volum 4Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1814 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 367 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest ! It is during the time that we lived on this farm, that my little story is most eventful.
Pàgina 323 - What!" said Toussaint, in his letter to the perfidious Frenchman, " have I not passed my word to the British general ? How then can you suppose that I will cover myself with dishonor by breaking it?
Pàgina 162 - Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured so fast into the home market, as to deprive all at once many thousands of our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence.
Pàgina 162 - Humanity may in this case require that the freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and .circumspection.
Pàgina 385 - I have enumerated, and harassed by the payment of tithes, can we be surprised that a peasant, of unenlightened mind, of uneducated habits, should rush upon the perpetration of crimes, followed by the punishment of the rope and the gibbet ? Nothing (as the peasantry. imagine) remains for them, thus harassed and thus destitute, but with strong hand to deter the stranger from. intruding upon. .their farms; and to extort from the weakness and terrors of their landlords,) from whose gratitode or good...
Pàgina 399 - ... justice would greatly reconcile the lower orders of the people, with the Government under which they live ; and, at no very distant period, I hope, attach them to the law, by imparting its benefits, and extending its protection to them, in actual and uniform experience. Gentlemen, if you ask me, how may this be accomplished ? I answer, by a vigilant superintendence of the administration of justice at Quarter Sessions, and an anxious observance of the conduct of all Justices of Peace.
Pàgina 568 - Britain,) for the space of two years, shall, to all intents and purposes, be deemed and taken to be a natural-born subject of his Majesty's kingdom of Great Britain...
Pàgina 70 - March 1798, 1 had your voluntary and entire concurrence in the following, as well as many other abandoned propositions — when we drank pure wine together — when you were young, and /was not superannuated — when we left the cold infusions of prudence to fine ladies and gentle politicians — when true wisdom was not degraded by the name of moderation — when we cared but little by what majorities the nation was betrayed, or how many felons were acquitted by their peers — and when we were...
Pàgina 394 - Sow ;" for an English farmer would refuse to eat the flesh of a hog, so lodged and fed as an Irish peasant is. Are the farms of an English landholder out of lease, or his cottages in a state of dilapidation ? — he rebuilds every one of them for his tenants, or he covenants to supply them with materials for the purpose.