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 páginas |
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... Commons under Charles I. The House embraced at this time , some of the ablest and most learned men of the age , such as Sir Edward Coke , John Hampden , Selden , St. John , Pym , & c . Among these , Sir John Eliot stood pre - eminent ...
... Commons under Charles I. The House embraced at this time , some of the ablest and most learned men of the age , such as Sir Edward Coke , John Hampden , Selden , St. John , Pym , & c . Among these , Sir John Eliot stood pre - eminent ...
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... Commons , as the result of their discussions , framed , on the 27th of May , 1628 , that second Great Charter of the liberties of England , the PETITION OF RIGHT ; so called because drawn up , in the humble spirit of the day , in the ...
... Commons , as the result of their discussions , framed , on the 27th of May , 1628 , that second Great Charter of the liberties of England , the PETITION OF RIGHT ; so called because drawn up , in the humble spirit of the day , in the ...
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... Commons . If they were not interested , I might expect a no less easy , than I do a safe , issue . But let neither my weakness plead my inno- cence , nor their power my guilt . If your Lord- ships will conceive of my defenses , as they ...
... Commons . If they were not interested , I might expect a no less easy , than I do a safe , issue . But let neither my weakness plead my inno- cence , nor their power my guilt . If your Lord- ships will conceive of my defenses , as they ...
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... Commons . When the managers had finished their evidence and argu- ments as to the facts alleged , a bill of attainder against the Earl was brought into the House by Sir Arthur Haselrig . The reason for this pro- cedure can not now be ...
... Commons . When the managers had finished their evidence and argu- ments as to the facts alleged , a bill of attainder against the Earl was brought into the House by Sir Arthur Haselrig . The reason for this pro- cedure can not now be ...
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... Commons , however , with a generosity never manifested before or since in such a case , immediately passed a bill to relieve his descendants from the penalties of forfeiture and corruption of blood . It is now generally admitted that ...
... Commons , however , with a generosity never manifested before or since in such a case , immediately passed a bill to relieve his descendants from the penalties of forfeiture and corruption of blood . It is now generally admitted that ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 291 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...