The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 176A. Constable, 1892 |
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... Government , 562 - Home Rule problem , 565 -Irish Parliament , 568 - interference from Westminster , 571- extradition of dynamiters , 573 - Ulster and Nationalist Government , 575 - Mr . Gladstone's tactics of secrecy , 576 - Mr ...
... Government , 562 - Home Rule problem , 565 -Irish Parliament , 568 - interference from Westminster , 571- extradition of dynamiters , 573 - Ulster and Nationalist Government , 575 - Mr . Gladstone's tactics of secrecy , 576 - Mr ...
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... Government can only declare the inability of any Federal tribunal to afford redress or to punish the offenders . Each state has its own legislature and executive , its own body of law , its own system of procedure , and its own courts ...
... Government can only declare the inability of any Federal tribunal to afford redress or to punish the offenders . Each state has its own legislature and executive , its own body of law , its own system of procedure , and its own courts ...
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... government of the people by themselves is likely to be productive of an in- different state of law and order . We must look beyond the mere form of government . The main cause is that same public indifference to the public weal which ...
... government of the people by themselves is likely to be productive of an in- different state of law and order . We must look beyond the mere form of government . The main cause is that same public indifference to the public weal which ...
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... Government to spies and informers at the time of the rebellion , and for some years afterwards , as is shown in such full detail by Mr. Fitzpatrick , has an important bear- ing upon the question of the bribery of members of Parlia- ment ...
... Government to spies and informers at the time of the rebellion , and for some years afterwards , as is shown in such full detail by Mr. Fitzpatrick , has an important bear- ing upon the question of the bribery of members of Parlia- ment ...
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... Government . His mission indeed was not to betray his associates to the hangman , but to induce his friends to abstain from rebellion . His tracts , his pamphlets , his addresses were a skilful combination of patriotic bombast with ...
... Government . His mission indeed was not to betray his associates to the hangman , but to induce his friends to abstain from rebellion . His tracts , his pamphlets , his addresses were a skilful combination of patriotic bombast with ...
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Page 277 - It is not in parliament alone that the remedy for parliamentary disorders can be completed ; hardly indeed can it begin there. Until a confidence in government is re-established, the people ought to be excited to a more strict and detailed attention to the conduct of their representatives. Standards for judging more systematically upon their conduct ought to be settled in the meetings of counties and corporations. Frequent and correct lists of the voters in all important questions ought to be procured.
Page 187 - As for the making of knots, or figures, with divers coloured earths, that they may lie under the windows of the house on that side which the garden stands, they be but toys ; you may see as good sights many times in tarts.
Page 175 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Page 273 - Thrumming on an empty can Some old hunting ditty, while He doth his green way beguile To fair hostess Merriment, Down beside the pasture Trent; For he left the merry tale Messenger for spicy ale. Gone, the merry morris din; Gone, the song of Gamelyn; Gone, the tough-belted outlaw Idling in the "grene shawe...
Page 277 - I see no other way for the preservation of a decent attention to public interest in the representatives, but the interposition of the body of the people itself...
Page 41 - And yet is most pretended. In a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be, that I should fear to change it. Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportioned strength.
Page 418 - ... as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of...
Page 88 - Poor in every thing but genius and philosophy, he had no property at stake, no family to fear for; but descending from the contemplation of wisdom, and abandoning the ornaments of fancy, he humanely undertook the task of conveying duty and instruction to the lowest class of the people. If I did not know him to be a Christian clergyman, I should suppose him, by his works, to be a philosopher of the Augustan age.
Page 416 - I have eaten his bread and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him...
Page 191 - The ingenious author of the Observations on Modern Gardening is, I think, too rigid when he condemns some deceptions because they have been often used. If those deceptions, as a feigned steeple of a distant church, or an unreal bridge to disguise the termination of water, were intended only to surprise, they were indeed tricks that would not bear repetition ; but being intended to improve the landscape...