Annual Register, Volume 111Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1870 - History |
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... authority to state what would be the details of the measure respecting the Irish Church ; but , as an Irishman and a Churchman , he felt it his duty to lay down certain principles as indispensable to an efficient settlement of the ...
... authority to state what would be the details of the measure respecting the Irish Church ; but , as an Irishman and a Churchman , he felt it his duty to lay down certain principles as indispensable to an efficient settlement of the ...
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... authority from religion he dilated with much earnestness , and , believing that we were tending towards a time when the influ- ence of religion would be predominant in public affairs , he warned the House against establishing an ...
... authority from religion he dilated with much earnestness , and , believing that we were tending towards a time when the influ- ence of religion would be predominant in public affairs , he warned the House against establishing an ...
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... authority and ecclesiastical influence . In this age we seem to have forgotten by what heroic efforts the great blessings of regulated freedom and temperate religion have been accomplished , and how much they have tended to the ...
... authority and ecclesiastical influence . In this age we seem to have forgotten by what heroic efforts the great blessings of regulated freedom and temperate religion have been accomplished , and how much they have tended to the ...
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... authority of the greatest and wisest men for measures which , in principle , were associated with those we now pro- pose . I think the debate which has occurred to - night demanded , as a mark of due respect from the Government , that ...
... authority of the greatest and wisest men for measures which , in principle , were associated with those we now pro- pose . I think the debate which has occurred to - night demanded , as a mark of due respect from the Government , that ...
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... authority of Mr. Pitt , Sir R. Peel , and Lord Palmerston against the arguments of Lord Clarendon . The Bill had been rested on the ground that the Irish Church was the Church of a minority ; but he denied that , if the United Kingdom ...
... authority of Mr. Pitt , Sir R. Peel , and Lord Palmerston against the arguments of Lord Clarendon . The Bill had been rested on the ground that the Irish Church was the Church of a minority ; but he denied that , if the United Kingdom ...
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Page 297 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 296 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 286 - It shall be competent for each Government to name one person to attend the Commissioners as Agent on its behalf, to present and support claims on its behalf, and to answer claims made upon it, and to represent it generally in all matters connected with the investigation and decision thereof.
Page 244 - For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
Page 307 - As the United States is the freest of all nations, so, too, its people sympathize with all people struggling for liberty and self-government; but while so sympathizing it is due to our honor that we should abstain from enforcing our views upon unwilling nations and from taking an interested part, -without invitation, in the quarrels between different nations or between governments and their subjects.
Page 221 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Page 291 - Whereas we are happily at Peace with all Sovereigns, Powers, and States: And whereas hostilities have unhappily commenced between the Government of the United States of America and certain states styling themselves the Confederate States of America...
Page 230 - Malta, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
Page 308 - The United States, in order to put a stop to bloodshed in Cuba, and in the interest of a neighboring people, proposed their good offices to bring the existing contest to a termination. The offer, not being accepted by Spain on a basis which we believed could be received by Cuba, was withdrawn. It is hoped that the good offices of the United States may yet prove advantageous for the settlement of this unhappy strife.
Page 285 - Government for its interposition with the other, and which yet remain unsettled, as well as any other such claims which may be presented within...