The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ...G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1802 |
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... situations as his words describe , he has enforced by the energy of modulation , which on the different occasions is sweet , bold , affecting , and sublime . These remarks are addressed to none but Englishmen ; for the expression of ...
... situations as his words describe , he has enforced by the energy of modulation , which on the different occasions is sweet , bold , affecting , and sublime . These remarks are addressed to none but Englishmen ; for the expression of ...
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... situation in which we ftood last year , to the lowest ftate of defpondefcy under which we now met ; and yet owed no- thing but aftonishment and regret to our country , and an unlimited con- fidence in the minifters ? their defire we ...
... situation in which we ftood last year , to the lowest ftate of defpondefcy under which we now met ; and yet owed no- thing but aftonishment and regret to our country , and an unlimited con- fidence in the minifters ? their defire we ...
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... situation of Ireland then was surely to be imputed to the impolicy of government ; and the bill now proposed could be no adequate remedy for the evil . The severities of martial law would never dispose men to loyal and liberal obedience ...
... situation of Ireland then was surely to be imputed to the impolicy of government ; and the bill now proposed could be no adequate remedy for the evil . The severities of martial law would never dispose men to loyal and liberal obedience ...
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... situation . Whence did they receive their in- formation ? From traitors who had come over from that country , and deceived them by false representa- tions , so as to induce them to give evidence in their favour on their trials . The ...
... situation . Whence did they receive their in- formation ? From traitors who had come over from that country , and deceived them by false representa- tions , so as to induce them to give evidence in their favour on their trials . The ...
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... situation of that country , no new arguments were needful to show the necessity of the pre- sent bill . It was true that on a former occasion some gentlemen had denied it ; but subsequent events proved its propriety ; and the ar ...
... situation of that country , no new arguments were needful to show the necessity of the pre- sent bill . It was true that on a former occasion some gentlemen had denied it ; but subsequent events proved its propriety ; and the ar ...
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Page 201 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Page 202 - Let us then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect, that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic, as wicked, and as capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Page 202 - I know indeed that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong ; that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
Page 203 - Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Page 202 - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which, by all its dispensations, proves that it delights in the happiness of man here, and his greater happiness hereafter; with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?
Page 202 - But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 204 - I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors which will never be intentional; and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not, if seen in all its parts.
Page 201 - During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely, and to speak and to write what they think ; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation...
Page 203 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political: peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Page 201 - ... their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right, advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye ; when I contemplate these transcendent objects, and see the honor, the happiness and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation, and humble myself before the magnitude of the undertaking.