| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. — The other, and I think...character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating... | |
| 1775 - 868 pages
...Great Britain fits at the head of her extenfive empire in two capacities : one as the local legislature of this ifland, providing for all things at home,...think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial cbara£ic r ; in •which, as from the throne of heaven fhe fuperintends all the feveral inferior legiilatures,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1775 - 64 pages
...kgiflature of this ifland, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other infirument than the executive power. The other, and I think her nobler capacity is wb»t I call her imperial charaflcr ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, fhe fuperintends all... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...rights ftated in that act, exactly in the manner in which I viewed them on its very firft propofition, and which I have often taken the liberty, with great...legiflatures, and guides, and controls them all without annihilating any. As all thefe provincial legiflatures are only co-ordinate to each other, they ought... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other inftrument than the executive power.—The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial char acter; in which, as from the throne of heaven, fhe fuperintends all the feveral inferior legiflatures,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...privileges which the colonifts ought to enjoy under thefe rights, to be juft the moft reconcilcable things in the world. The parliament of Great Britain...any. As all thefe provincial legiflatures are only co-ordinate to each other, they ought all to be fubordinate to her; el fe they can neither preferve... | |
| John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1802 - 570 pages
...legiflaturc of this iiland, providing for ** all things at home, immediately, and by no " other instrument than the executive power. " The other, and I think...character; in " which, as from the throne of heaven, flie *' fuperintends all the fevcral inferior le»;i(la" tu res, and guides aiul controuls them all... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 462 pages
...enjoy under thefe rights, to be juft the moft reconcileable things in the world. The F f 2 parliament parliament of Great Britain fits at the head of her...character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, fhel'uperintends all the feveral inferiour legiilatures, and guides, and controuls them all without... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. — The other, and I think...character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferiour legislatures, and guides, and controuls them all without... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. The other, and I think her...character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferiour legislatures, and guides, and controls them all vvidiout... | |
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