Thoughts on Times Past Tested by Subsequent EventsT. and W. Boone, 1837 - 164 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 61 - ... indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom, and so shall be esteemed, allowed, adjudged, deemed, and taken to be, and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed, as they are expressed in the said declaration ; and all officers and ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majesties and their successors according to the same in all times to come.
الصفحة 76 - Established Church, as well as to the peace of the country and the existence of the Constitution. By an utter dereliction of principle we have sought to appease those who are actuated by no principle but a hatred of order ; we thus depress and disgust our most valuable friends, we invest our enemies with the power taken from our friends, and, to fill up the measure of our misdoing, we offend our GOD in the disowning of Christianity. I simply ask, if we desert our GOD, will he not desert us? will...
الصفحة 132 - If, therefore, any future prince should endeavour to subvert the constitution by breaking the original contract between king and people...
الصفحة 73 - ... corruptions which prevailed in them. Taking for his motto, that honesty is the best policy, the straight-forward, intelligible, and defined policy of the Minister, gained the applause even of his opponents, whilst his friends, sure of his support and encouragement in their endeavours to promote his generous measures for the public welfare, acted with spirit, union, and confidence. Thus we continued blessed with an Administration which acted upon known principles, until in 1812 the same hand which...
الصفحة 80 - I have thus endeavored, very imperfectly, I admit, to describe my notions on this momentous subject. I have written freely ; why should I not ? Some one must speak out ; my duty and my interest compel me to conceal nothing, and in this respect I acquit myself of any deficiency. I have extenuated where I could do so with propriety ; I have set down nought in malice or hostility, for I entertain none. Perilous times require strong remedies and home truths ; you will perceive that I have not flinched...
الصفحة 75 - ... were almost obliged to hide their diminished heads. Then followed the effects of this contemptible system. The depraved, the disaffected, and the self-opinionated, are always the most noisy and turbulent; they clamoured; they made themselves to be heard: finding their strength, and presuming upon their acquired consequence, they artfully contrived, through the Administration, in fact, to rule the state...
الصفحة 76 - ... conceive to be its origin, growth, and maturation ; and I have for this purpose attempted to sketch my view of cause and effect up to the present time. I shall omit all farther comment, and proceed at once to the change of ministry in January last. Every heart beat with high expectation — every patriot rejoiced in the anticipated appointment of the Duke of Wellington to the head of affairs. The lover of his country fondly hoped that the time had at last arrived when an end would be put to the...
الصفحة 74 - B which acted upon known principles, until in 1812 the same hand which deprived Mr. PERCEVAL of life, extinguished also the light of the Administration. We lost our virtuous, exemplary, and highlygifted Minister, and from that time our moral decline commenced. Then began that accursed system of liberalism, neutrality, and conciliation— right and wrong, virtue and vice, the friend and the enemy of his country were to be confounded, distinctions were to be levelled, all was to bend to expediency,...
الصفحة 79 - ... which stares us in the face; and if it is desirous of preserving our glorious constitution, of upholding religion, of maintaining the laws, rights, and liberties of our country, so as in some measure to merit the favour of God and man, then, I would say, ["] let the nation arouse from its lethargy; let it stand forth in the panoply of its natural excellence; let it declare its intentions; let it demand that the Popish association shall be instantly annihilated; let it demand that the voice of...