Men and Manners in America, Band 2W. Blackwood, 1833 |
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... Senate and the House of Representatives . The Speaker of the latter , and the Vice - President of the United States , who presides in the former , -to both of whom I had the honour to be the bearer of introductions , — were obliging ...
... Senate and the House of Representatives . The Speaker of the latter , and the Vice - President of the United States , who presides in the former , -to both of whom I had the honour to be the bearer of introductions , — were obliging ...
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... be received as such . Each member is furnished with a desk , and a con- siderable number are usually engaged during the progress of public business in writing letters , or HALL OF THE SENATE . reading newspapers . 33 Generally.
... be received as such . Each member is furnished with a desk , and a con- siderable number are usually engaged during the progress of public business in writing letters , or HALL OF THE SENATE . reading newspapers . 33 Generally.
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... Senate is a good deal smaller than that of the Representatives , and is very elegantly fitted up . It is likewise in the form of a semicircle , with desks at convenient distances for the members who sit uncovered . The President's chair ...
... Senate is a good deal smaller than that of the Representatives , and is very elegantly fitted up . It is likewise in the form of a semicircle , with desks at convenient distances for the members who sit uncovered . The President's chair ...
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Thomas Hamilton. 34 FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE SENATE . cure . In the course of the many debates of the Senate at which I was present during my stay in Washington , I do not remember any instance in which it was found necessary for the ...
Thomas Hamilton. 34 FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE SENATE . cure . In the course of the many debates of the Senate at which I was present during my stay in Washington , I do not remember any instance in which it was found necessary for the ...
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... senate , or the drawing - room ; but to attempt the honours of a double triumph , is , in general , to secure but dupli- city of failure . In Washington all are idle enough to be as agree- able as they can . The business of Congress is ...
... senate , or the drawing - room ; but to attempt the honours of a double triumph , is , in general , to secure but dupli- city of failure . In Washington all are idle enough to be as agree- able as they can . The business of Congress is ...
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Seite 119 - ... parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole : — you choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Seite 287 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Seite 118 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Seite 118 - My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred...
Seite 119 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitution.
Seite 119 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Seite 118 - But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you ; to any man, or to any set of men living.
Seite 122 - Party spirit has entered the recesses of retirement, violated the sanctity of female character, invaded the tranquillity of private life, and visited with severe inflictions the peace of families; neither elevation nor humility has been spared; nor the charities of life, nor distinguished public services, nor the fireside, nor the altar, been left free from attack; but a licentious and destroying spirit has gone forth, regardless of everything but the gratification of malignant feelings, and unworthy...
Seite 200 - I rambled through the woods, there were a thousand shrubs already bursting into flower. On reaching the lower regions of the Mississippi, all was brightness and verdure. Summer had already begun, and the heat was even disagreeably intense. Shortly after entering Louisiana, the whole wildness of the Mississippi disappears. The banks are all cultivated, and nothing was to be seen but plantations of sugar, cotton, and rice, with the houses of their owners, and the little adjoining hamlets inhabited...
Seite 398 - ... according to the anomalous and piebald creed prescribed by such a congregation, and the practical result is, that some one sect becomes victorious for a time; jealousies deepen into antipathies, and what is called an opposition church probably springs up in the village. Still harmony is not restored. The rival clergymen attack each other from the pulpit; newspapers are enlisted on either side ; and religious warfare is waged with the bitterness, if not the learning which has distinguished the...