Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, Volume 3

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J. Murray, 1840
 

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Page 343 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 47 - Judgment shall have been had, shall be ; and in case Admission shall be refused or not obtained within a reasonable time after it shall have been first demanded, to enter by Force by Day...
Page 276 - Lords to empower his Majesty to secure and detain such persons as his Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his person and government ; a Bill which is generally called " A Bill for the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.
Page 222 - With respect to this passage, I said I knew not what the meaning of it was, or what mental reservation it indicated ; but I could hardly understand it in so odious a sense as that the interests of Louis XVIII. would be best consulted by lulling the people into a fatal security, that the pretensions of the Allies to seat him on the throne were not to be openly avowed, till all resistance to them should have become impossible. That the French nation might be induced the more implicitly to rely on these...
Page 172 - Buonaparte shall have been rendered absolutely unable to create disturbance, and to renew his attempts for possessing himself of the supreme power in France.
Page 302 - Lordship should not propose to attend in person at the next general quarter sessions of the peace, to be holden in and for the county...
Page 79 - I moved criminal for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal so much of the Act of King William as punishes with death the offence of stealing privately in a shop, warehouse, or stable, goods of the value of five shillings...
Page 354 - British Government ; debasing that Government, once so celebrated for good faith and honour, into a condition lower in character than that of the ancient French...
Page 100 - Monday next, Frankland moved that it should be postponed for six months. On a division, this was carried by a majority of 15 ; 75 for postponing it, and 60 against it ; so that the Bill is lost, and the Ministers have the glory of having preserved the British law, by which it is ordained that the heart and the bowels of a man convicted of treason shall be torn out of his body while he is yet alive.
Page 138 - ... all the Powers of Christendom to decree the abolition of the Slave Trade, so that the said Trade shall cease universally, as it shall cease definitively, under any circumstances, on the part of the French Government, in the course of five years ; and that, during the said period, no Slave Merchant shall import or sell Slaves, except in the Colonies of the State of which he is a Subject.

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