Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries; with Sketches of Their Lives ...Harper & brothers, 1853 - 947 páginas |
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... least suspicion of my own guilt , I would save your Lordships the pains . I would cast the first stone . I would pass the first sentence of condemnation against myself . And whether it be so or not , I now re- fer to your Lordships ...
... least suspicion of my own guilt , I would save your Lordships the pains . I would cast the first stone . I would pass the first sentence of condemnation against myself . And whether it be so or not , I now re- fer to your Lordships ...
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... least part with laurels , adorned with trophies , and ap- suggested to me by these dishonorable articles . plauded with huzzas , there was a monitor ap- Should not the consideration of these things viv - pointed to stand behind him , to ...
... least part with laurels , adorned with trophies , and ap- suggested to me by these dishonorable articles . plauded with huzzas , there was a monitor ap- Should not the consideration of these things viv - pointed to stand behind him , to ...
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... least grumbling . And if an officer were sent into the Court of Requests , ac- companied by a body of musketeers with screw- ed bayonets , and with orders to tell us what we ought to do , and how we were to vote , I know what would be ...
... least grumbling . And if an officer were sent into the Court of Requests , ac- companied by a body of musketeers with screw- ed bayonets , and with orders to tell us what we ought to do , and how we were to vote , I know what would be ...
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... least be very merry ; and , since pub- lic happiness is the end of government , they seem to imagine that they shall deserve applause by an expedient which will enable every man to lay his cares asleep , to drown sorrow , and lose in ...
... least be very merry ; and , since pub- lic happiness is the end of government , they seem to imagine that they shall deserve applause by an expedient which will enable every man to lay his cares asleep , to drown sorrow , and lose in ...
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... least , omitted part of our duty , and have neglected the health and virtue of the people . this fund is mortgaged to the public creditors , they can prevail upon the Commons to change the security . They may continue the bill in force ...
... least , omitted part of our duty , and have neglected the health and virtue of the people . this fund is mortgaged to the public creditors , they can prevail upon the Commons to change the security . They may continue the bill in force ...
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Página 368 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 137 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Página 368 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream...
Página 373 - 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.
Página 293 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Página 348 - All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing...
Página 389 - 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.
Página 278 - The temper and character which prevail in our colonies are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.
Página 10 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Página 292 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...