| William John Thoms - Coronations - 1838 - 506 pages
...impart more largely the mere enjoyments of existence ; but in no other region have the benefits that political institutions can confer been diffused over...discordant elements of wealth, order, and liberty." And " these advantages," he continues, " are surely not owing to the soil of this island, nor to the... | |
| Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...impart more largely the mere enjoyments of existence ; but in no other region have the benefits which political institutions can confer, been diffused over...placed ; but to the SPIRIT OF ITS LAWS, from which have been derived, through various means, the characteristic independence and industriousness of our... | |
| Leland A. Webster - Sociology - 1866 - 372 pages
...English people have long enjoyed, he says: " These advantages are surely not owing to the soil of the island, nor to the latitude in which it is placed...independence and industriousness of our nation have been derived."t What a melancholy failure of thought does our author here betray ! How shamefully does he... | |
| Cecilia MacGregor - 1873 - 318 pages
...said Mr. Phillips, "that the uninterruptedly increasing prosperity of England is owing not so much to the soil of this island, nor to the latitude in which it is placed, as to the spirit of its laws, from which, through various means, the characteristic independence and... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1875 - 754 pages
...impart more largely the mere enjoyments of existence ; but in no other region have the benefits that political institutions can confer been diffused over...people so well reconciled the discordant elements oi wealth, order, and liberty. These advantages are surely not owing to the soil of this island, nor... | |
| English dictation - 1881 - 156 pages
...impart more largely the mere enjoyments of existence, but in no other region have the benefits that political institutions can confer been diffused over...soil of this island, nor to the latitude in which iris placed, but to the spirit of its laws, from which, through various means, the characteristic independence... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - Constitutional law - 1885 - 430 pages
...the benefits that political institutions " can confer, been diffused over so extended a popu" lation; nor have any people so well reconciled the " discordant...which, " through various means, the characteristic inde" pendence and industriousness of our nation have " been derived. The constitution, therefore,... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - History - 1889 - 466 pages
...impart more largely the mere " enjoyments of existence; but in no other region have " the benefits that political institutions can confer, been " diffused...its " laws, from which, through various means, the charac" teristic independence and industriousness of our " nation have been derived. The constitution,... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - Constitutional law - 1897 - 504 pages
...existence ; but in no other region have 1 Burke, Works, iii. (1872 ed.), p. 114. B " the benefits that political institutions can confer been " diffused...our " nation have been derived. The constitution, there" fore, of England must be to inquisitive men of all " countries, far more to ourselves, an object... | |
| Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1928 - 486 pages
...impart more largely the mere enjoyments of existence; but in no other region have the benefits that political institutions can confer been diffused over...which it is placed, but to the spirit of its laws." A SKETCH OF ABRAHAM BALDWIN The Georgia Legislature used to be the judges of domestic warfare, granting... | |
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