The opinions of lord Holland, as recorded in the journals of the House of lords from 1797 to 1841, collected and ed. by D.C. Moylan

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Side 165 - Christian doctrine taught us to do unto others as we would that others should do unto us.
Side 176 - King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for repealing so much, + • of several Acts as imposes the Necessity of receiving the Sacrament * of the Lord's Supper as a Qualification for certain Offices and ' Employments ; or according to another Act passed in the Tenth 10 G.
Side 141 - An Act to prevent bribery and corruption in the election of burgesses to serve in Parliament for the borough of East Retford.
Side 117 - well aware that the privileges of the people, the rights of free discussion, and the spirit and letter of our popular institutions, must render, — and they are intended to render, — the continuance of an extensive grievance, and of the dissatisfaction consequent thereupon, dangerous to the tranquillity of the country, and ultimately subversive of the authority of *he state.
Side 13 - An act for the safety and preservation of his Majesty's person and government against treasonable and seditious practices and attempts...
Side 177 - I may possess by virtue of the office of to injure or weaken the Protestant Church as it is by law established in England, or to disturb the said church, or the bishops and clergy of the said church, in the possession of any rights or privileges to which such church, or the said bishops and clergy, are or may be by law entitled.
Side 89 - Because, severe laws are, in our judgment, more likely to produce a deviation from the strict execution of justice than to deter individuals from the commission of crimes ; and our apprehension that such may be the effect is confirmed, in this instance, by the reflection that the offence in question is become more frequent, and the punishment, probably on account of its rigour, is seldom or never inflicted. 4thly, Because the value of money has decreased since the reign of King William, and the statute...
Side 157 - ... shall extend to secure the payment of damages and costs to be recovered in actions for libels published in such newspapers, pamphlets, or other papers, as well as to secure the payment of fines to His Majesty upon such convictions as aforesaid.
Side 168 - All infidels are in law perpetui inimici, perpetual enemies (for the law presumes not that they will be converted, that being remota potentia, a remote possibility) for between them, as with the devils, whose subjects they be, and the Christian, there is perpetual hostility, and can be no peace; for as the Apostle said, 2 Cor.
Side 74 - By the 13th of Charles II. it is further declared, that no act or ordinance with the force or virtue of a law can be made by either or both houses of parliament. We conceive, therefore, on the one hand, that a commission so created, and so limited, can never by any fiction of law, or annexation of seal, convey the royal assent in defiance of the obvious meaning of language, and the strict and legal definition of the term ; and on the other hand, till the royal assent be obtained, we cannot, in violation...

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