 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 σελίδες
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence,...truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. The policy appears... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1835 - 806 σελίδες
...our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity. By this means, our constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an hereditary crown, an hereditary peerage, and a house of commons, and a people inheriting privileges,... | |
 | John Singleton Copley (1st baron Lyndhurst.) - 1839 - 150 σελίδες
...as the Rights of Englishmen, and as a Patrimony derived from their Forefathers." —Pp. 45 and 46. " You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the declaration...Inheritable Peerage; and a House of Commons ; and a People inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of Ancestors." " A spirit of Innovation... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 σελίδες
...transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom/without any reference whatever to any other more general or...inheritable peerage ; and a house of commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. This policy appears... | |
 | John Centlivres Chase - 1843 - 376 σελίδες
...from our forefathers to be transmitted to our posterity, an estate specially belonging to the people, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right. The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 σελίδες
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...an inheritable crown ; an inheritable peerage ; and an House of Commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties from a long line... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 σελίδες
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...inheritable peerage ; and a house of commons and a people inheritingprivileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. The policy appears... | |
 | Hugh A. Garland - 1850 - 336 σελίδες
...be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom — an inheritable crown — an inheritable peerage ; and a House of Commons, and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties from a long line of ancestors. With the same masterly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 σελίδες
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...inheritable peerage ; and a House of Commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. The policy appears... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 σελίδες
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable Crown, an inheritable peerage,... | |
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You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity... 
