 | David George Ritchie - 1903 - 332 pàgines
...the Reformers of 1794. The latter, in his charge to the jury in the trial of Thomas Muir, said : " A government in every country should be just like...have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation of them ? They may pack up their property on their backs and leave the country in the twinkling... | |
 | Julius Hatschek - 1905 - 692 pàgines
...geradezu aussprechen: ,A government in every country shouldbe just like a corporation, and in this country is made up of the landed interest, which alone has a right to be represented" (cit. von Mackinnon aa 0. p. 503). In dieser Richtung schufen die Reformakt« von 1832, 1868 und 1884... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 490 pàgines
...lordship, " but now I hate them." And yet a little further on : "A government in any country should be like a corporation ; and in this country it is made...have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation of them? They may pack up their property on their backs, and leave the country in the twinkling... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1906 - 410 pàgines
...in every country should be just like a corporation," said he in one of his charges to the jury ; " and, in this country, it is made up of the landed...have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation of them ? " This is the last word of reaction, but the judge's prejudice in this matter did... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1907 - 138 pàgines
...lordship, "but now I hate them." And yet a little further on : "A government in any country should be like a corporation ; and in this country it is made...have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation of them? They may pack up their property on their backs, and leave the country in the twinkling... | |
 | Adbullah Browne - 1907 - 544 pàgines
...country had to do with the laws but to obey them"; and the Chief Justice, in sentencing Muir, cried, "As for the rabble, who have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation on them ? " they might both have been speaking for the Mamaluk rulers of Egypt, and yet they... | |
 | William Law Mathieson - 1910 - 336 pàgines
...sentiment of what Lord Cockburn calls ' ' the hard old aristocracy ' ' when he said from the bench : " A Government in every country should be just like...have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation on them?" Such being the temper of the time, Henry Erskine had certainly the courage of his... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1911 - 696 pàgines
...address to the jury at the close of the trial of Thomas Muir for sedition, at Edinburgh in August 1793: "A Government in every country should be just like...have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation upon them? What security for the payment of their taxes? They may pack up all their property... | |
 | Henry William Meikle - 1912 - 348 pàgines
...have been in danger." With brutal frankness he summed up the position of himself and his friends : "A government in every country should be just like...have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation on them ? What security for the payment of their taxes ? They may pack up all their property... | |
 | Walter Lyon Blease - 1913 - 450 pàgines
...the best that ever was since the creation of the world, and it is not possible to make it better. ... A government in every country should be just like...have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation upon them ? " 3 So Pitt " did not consider those to be the best friends of the people who were... | |
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A Government in every country should be just like a Corporation,* and in this country it is made up of the landed interest which alone has a right to be represented. 
