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Page 103 - Then it was that the great English people was formed, that the national character began to exhibit those peculiarities which it has ever since retained, and that our fathers became emphatically* islanders, — islanders not merely in geographical position, but in their politics, their feelings, and their manners.
Page 104 - Then was formed that language, less musical indeed than the languages of the south, but in force, in richness, in aptitude for all the highest purposes of the poet, the philosopher, and the orator, inferior to the tongue of Greece alone.
Page 243 - Honours and public trusts, peerages, baronetcies, regiments, frigates, embassies, governments, commissionerships, leases of crown lands, contracts for clothing, for provisions, for ammunition, pardons for murder, for robbery, for arson, were sold at Whitehall scarcely less openly than asparagus at Covent Garden or herrings at Billingsgate.
Page 108 - First, That in every County of England shall be assigned for the keeping of the Peace, one Lord, and with him three or four of the most worthy in the County, with some learned in the Law...
Page 104 - ... imperial jurisprudence. Then it was that the courage of those sailors who manned the rude barks of the Cinque Ports first made the flag of England terrible on the seas.
Page 103 - Then first appeared with distinctness that constitution which has ever since, through all changes, preserved its identity ; that constitution of which all the other free constitutions in the world are copies, and which, in spite of some defects, deserves to be regarded as the best under which any great society has ever yet existed during many ages. Then it was that the House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet, either in the Old or. in the New World, held...
Page 103 - English people was formed, that the national character began to exhibit those peculiarities which it has ever since retained, and that our fathers became emphatically islanders, islanders not merely in geographical position, but in their politics, their feelings, and their manners. Then first appeared with distinctness that constitution which has ever since, through all changes, preserved its identity ; that constitution of which all the other free constitutions in the world are copies, and which,...
Page ii - Combat the spirit of democracy by the spirit of liberty; the wild spirit of democratic liberty by the regulated spirit of organized liberty, such as may be found in a limited monarchy with a free parliament.
Page 78 - That the body of a freeman be not taken or imprisoned, nor that he be disseized, nor outlawed, nor exiled, nor any way destroyed, nor that the King pass sentence upon him, or imprison him by force, but only by the judgment of his peers (judicium parium suorunt) or by the law of the land {per legem terra)." This is the repeated guarantee of legal protection according to the