 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1878 - 1110 Seiten
...has stated this vital principle in parliamentary history in his usual vivid way : " It happened that the great contests for freedom in this country were,...earliest times, chiefly upon the question of taxing. The Colonies drew from you, as with their life-blood, these ideas and principles. Their love of liberty,... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 584 Seiten
...which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were...from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxation." § 385. DESCRIPTION IN ORATORY. 9. Description is very effective in oratory. It deals with... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 Seiten
...which, byway of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness. It 30 happened, you know, sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were...magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the state. The 35 question of money was not with them so immediate. But in England it was otherwise.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 484 Seiten
...happiness. It happened that the great * Bodin's Common-weal, translated by R. Knolles, p. 148. 1006. contests for freedom in this country were from the...the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the rif ht of election of magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the state. The question... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 552 Seiten
...which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened that the great contest for freedom in this country were from the earliest...magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the state. The question of money was not with them so immediate. But in England it was otherwise.... | |
 | John Andrew Doyle - 1882 - 606 Seiten
...Virginia, but of all her sister colonies, was threatened. He reminded the English Parliament, that ' The great contests for freedom in this country were...earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing. ... On this point of taxes the ablest pens and most eloquent tongues have been exercised ; the greatest... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 614 Seiten
...constitutional traditions of the English people a broad line did undoubtedly exist. As Burke truly said,' the great contests for freedom in this country were from the earliest times chiefly on the question of taxing.' The English people have always held that as long as their representatives... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 Seiten
...which by the way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were...magistrates ; or on the balance among the several orders of the State. The question of money was not with them so immediate. But in England it was otherwise.... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 340 Seiten
...which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened you know, sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were,...magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the State. The question of money was not with them so immediate. But in England it was otherwise.... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 Seiten
...which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were...magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the state. The question of money was not with them so immediate. But in England it was otherwise.... | |
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their, happiness. It happened, you... 
