The Liberties of AmericaG.P. Putman, 1853 - 280 ページ |
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30 ページ - And shall we refuse the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land ? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?
273 ページ - Ñeque eniín id est celare, quicquid reticeas, sed cum, quod tu scias, id ignorare emolumenti tui causa velis eos, quorum intersit id scire. Hoc autem celandi genus quale sit et cuius hominis, quis non videt? Certe non aperti, non simplicis, non ingenui, non iusti, non viri boni, versuti potius, obscuri, astuti, fallacis, malitiosi, callidi, veteratoris, vafri.
46 ページ - Quare et tibi, Publi, et piis omnibus retinendus est animus in custodia corporis, nee injussu ejus, a quo ille est vobis datus, ex hominum vita migrandum est, ne munus humanum assignatum a deo defugisse videamini.
134 ページ - ... manifest perjuries by trial of such secret wills and uses have been committed ; the king's highness hath lost the profits and advantages of the lands of persons attainted, and of the lands craftily put in...
274 ページ - Ces auteurs pensent que la bonne foi qui doit régner dans le contrat de vente n'oblige le vendeur à autre chose qu'à faire connaître à l'acheteur la chose qu'il lui vend pour ce qu'elle est, sans lui rien dissimuler de ses défauts, et à ne la pas vendre audelà du prix qu'elle a lors du contrat ; qu'il ne commet aucune injustice en la vendant à ce prix, quoiqu'il sache que ce prix doive de beaucoup diminuer par la suite; qu'il n'est pas obligé de faire part à l'acheteur de la connaissance...
134 ページ - ... and scantly any person can be certainly assured of any lands by them purchased, nor know surely against whom they shall use their actions or executions for their rights, titles and duties; also men married have lost their tenancies by the...
161 ページ - ... people, in their capacity of electors, may do all that is within the proper scope of the franchise ; but it is usurpation to do more. And this enables us to condemn without reserve an opinion strangely prevalent in some parts of the country, to the effect that when a man is chosen to an office, and especially an office of legislation, it is the right of his constituents to have pledges from him as to the measures he will advocate or oppose in public life ; and even to come upon him afterwards,...
168 ページ - ... continuance. Both these objects are vital. But each of them, it is plain, has exigencies of its own, to be specially looked after by the founders of States. To combine the two successfully, is perhaps the noblest, because the most extensively beneficial achievement, that human wisdom can aim at. In most governments no effort has been made in that direction. I know of none but ours in which the thing has been seriously attempted. Mark then the most interesting peculiarity of our system, and, God...
176 ページ - It is highly criminal in any minister or servant under the crown, directly or indirectly, to use the powers of office to influence the election of representatives ; and any attempt at such influence will always be resented by this house, as aimed at its own honour, dignity, and independence, as nn infringement of the dearest rights of every subject throughout the empire, and tending to sap the basis of this free and happy constitution.
274 ページ - S'il la lui faisait, ce serait un acte gratuit de bénéficence qu'il n'est obligé d'exercer qu'envers ceux qui sont dans le besoin, tels que n'étaient pas les Rhodiens qui ne manquaient que de blé, et qui ne manquaient pas d'argent pour acheter celui que ce marchand leur vendait. Le profit qu'il fait en vendant son blé au prix qu'il vaut aujourd'hui, quoiqu'il sache qu'il vaudra beaucoup moins dans peu, n'a rien d'injuste; c'est une juste récompense de la diligence qu'il a faite pour arriver...