The Belfast Monthly Magazine, Volume 6Smyth and Lyons, 1811 |
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... reform was not abandoned . The abolition of the slave - trade , during the time in which it was advocated , occupied a consi- derable portion of his attention.- The attempt of ministers in 1795 , to establish a new and undefined law of ...
... reform was not abandoned . The abolition of the slave - trade , during the time in which it was advocated , occupied a consi- derable portion of his attention.- The attempt of ministers in 1795 , to establish a new and undefined law of ...
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... reform , which are looked for from him and a new ministry , may not be impeded . Charles Jas . Fox used to say " that confidence was a plant of slow growth with men of long experience , " and it is scarcely prudent to be lavish in ...
... reform , which are looked for from him and a new ministry , may not be impeded . Charles Jas . Fox used to say " that confidence was a plant of slow growth with men of long experience , " and it is scarcely prudent to be lavish in ...
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... reform , especially in that branch of the Legislature , the corrupt state of which has been the great source of all our national calamities the Commons House of Parliament ; we , nevertheless , feel equally anxious to main- tain the ...
... reform , especially in that branch of the Legislature , the corrupt state of which has been the great source of all our national calamities the Commons House of Parliament ; we , nevertheless , feel equally anxious to main- tain the ...
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... reform in the Criminal Law , in a letter to Sir Samuel Romilly , 1s . 6d . A Collection of entertaining Valentines , entirely original , by a Lady , 1s . 6d . The art of preserving for many years all kinds of Substand Substances ...
... reform in the Criminal Law , in a letter to Sir Samuel Romilly , 1s . 6d . A Collection of entertaining Valentines , entirely original , by a Lady , 1s . 6d . The art of preserving for many years all kinds of Substand Substances ...
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... reform in parliament , and who are now tied by the purse strings to the paper - system , that have shrunk into political quietism , and aie mere orators - mum in the shifting scene of the day . The primary con- nection between the ...
... reform in parliament , and who are now tied by the purse strings to the paper - system , that have shrunk into political quietism , and aie mere orators - mum in the shifting scene of the day . The primary con- nection between the ...
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Page 210 - When all thy mercies, O my God ! My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise. Promiscuous.) PUNCTUATION. 11J O how shall words, with equal warmth, The gratitude declare, That glows within my ravish'd heart ? But thou canst read it there. Thy Providence my life sustain'd, And all my wants redress'd, When in the silent womb I lay, And hung upon the breast.
Page 291 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 269 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: but I say unto you, Swear not at all...
Page 501 - ... the defendant or defendants in such issue"1 action or suit, shall and may plead the general issue, and give this act, and the special matter, in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of this act...
Page 74 - I can not presume it to be unseasonable to invite your attention to the advantages of superadding to the means of education provided by the several States a seminary of learning...
Page 207 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England; more particularly, from the long prorogation of November 1675, ending the 15th of February, 1676, till the last meeting of parliament, the 16th of July, 1677, 1678, fol., and reprinted in the State Tracts in 1689.
Page 2 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Page 74 - The legality and necessity of the course pursued assure me of the favorable light in which it will present itself to the Legislature, and of the promptitude with which they will supply whatever provisions may be due to the essential rights and equitable interests of the people thus brought into the bosom of the American family.
Page 74 - ... temple of science, to be re-distributed in due time through every part of the community, sources of jealousy and prejudice would be diminished, the features of national character would be multiplied, and greater extent given to social harmony. But above all, a...
Page 74 - Such indeed is the experience of economy as well as of policy in these substitutes for supplies heretofore obtained by foreign commerce that in a national view the change is justly regarded as of itself more than a recompense for those privations and losses resulting from foreign injustice which furnished the general impulse required for its accomplishment. How far...