Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries ...Harper & brothers, 1856 - 947 страници |
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... King's person which was still felt by both houses of Parliament . It does not dwell , therefore , on those recent acts of arbitrary power in which the King might be supposed to have reluctantly concurred ; and the fact is a striking one ...
... King's person which was still felt by both houses of Parliament . It does not dwell , therefore , on those recent acts of arbitrary power in which the King might be supposed to have reluctantly concurred ; and the fact is a striking one ...
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... king and country ; but that , with a true English heart , I shall discharge my- self as faithfully and as really , to the extent of my poor power , as any man whose honors or whose { { offices most strictly oblige him . the Netherlands ...
... king and country ; but that , with a true English heart , I shall discharge my- self as faithfully and as really , to the extent of my poor power , as any man whose honors or whose { { offices most strictly oblige him . the Netherlands ...
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... King , no other arguments will I use than such as all men grant . The exchequer , you know , is empty , and the reputation thereof gone ; the ancient lands are sold ; the jewels pawned ; the plate engaged ; 10 the debts still great ...
... King , no other arguments will I use than such as all men grant . The exchequer , you know , is empty , and the reputation thereof gone ; the ancient lands are sold ; the jewels pawned ; the plate engaged ; 10 the debts still great ...
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... King , and ingratiating ourselves with him , by tearing up the roots of all property ; which if they be not seasonably set again into the ground by his Majesty's hand , we shall have , instead of beauty , baldness ! " " C He next , in ...
... King , and ingratiating ourselves with him , by tearing up the roots of all property ; which if they be not seasonably set again into the ground by his Majesty's hand , we shall have , instead of beauty , baldness ! " " C He next , in ...
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... King's subjects , un- der pretense of disobedience ; had used a mili- tary way for redressing the contempt , and laid soldiers upon the lands and goods of the King's subjects , to their utter ruin . " There was a de- ficiency of proofs ...
... King's subjects , un- der pretense of disobedience ; had used a mili- tary way for redressing the contempt , and laid soldiers upon the lands and goods of the King's subjects , to their utter ruin . " There was a de- ficiency of proofs ...
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Страница 371 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Страница 366 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Страница 291 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Страница 138 - That God and Nature have put into our hands ! " What ideas of God and Nature that noble lord may entertain, I know not ; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and Nature...
Страница 271 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Страница 387 - Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Страница 369 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Страница 274 - ... them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward.
Страница 272 - Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing.
Страница 290 - Freedom, they will turn their faces toward you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have. The more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They...