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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... ment of Parliament , and without proving or de- claring that all or any of them were advised by me . A supposed sole minister is to be condemn- ed and punished as the author of all ; and what adds to the enormity is , that an attempt ...
... ment of Parliament , and without proving or de- claring that all or any of them were advised by me . A supposed sole minister is to be condemn- ed and punished as the author of all ; and what adds to the enormity is , that an attempt ...
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... ment ; he was created Earl of Orford with a place , it can not be supposed to raise any resent - pension of £ 4000 a year , and resigned all his ment in this House , where many may be pleased offices on the 11th of February , 1742 . MR ...
... ment ; he was created Earl of Orford with a place , it can not be supposed to raise any resent - pension of £ 4000 a year , and resigned all his ment in this House , where many may be pleased offices on the 11th of February , 1742 . MR ...
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... ment reduced them to a lottery . If I , my Lords , might presume to recommend to our ministers the most probable method of raising a large sum for the payment of the troops of the Electorate , I should , instead of the tax and lottery ...
... ment reduced them to a lottery . If I , my Lords , might presume to recommend to our ministers the most probable method of raising a large sum for the payment of the troops of the Electorate , I should , instead of the tax and lottery ...
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... ment - age , which always brings one privilege , that of being insolent and supercilious without punishment . But with regard , sir , to those whom I have offended , I am of opinion , that if I had acted a borrowed part , I should have ...
... ment - age , which always brings one privilege , that of being insolent and supercilious without punishment . But with regard , sir , to those whom I have offended , I am of opinion , that if I had acted a borrowed part , I should have ...
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... ment divisions among the princes of Germany , Prussia , and for dividing his dominions among to reduce them by mutual strife , and then to ren- the allies . We had solicited , not only the Queender the houses of Bavaria , Austria , and ...
... ment divisions among the princes of Germany , Prussia , and for dividing his dominions among to reduce them by mutual strife , and then to ren- the allies . We had solicited , not only the Queender the houses of Bavaria , Austria , and ...
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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...