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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... Nabob of Arcot's debts was so little understood at the time of delivery , and heard with so much impatience by the House of Commons , that Mr. Pitt and Lord Grenville considered it as needing no reply ! ( 6 At the close of the same year ...
... Nabob of Arcot's debts was so little understood at the time of delivery , and heard with so much impatience by the House of Commons , that Mr. Pitt and Lord Grenville considered it as needing no reply ! ( 6 At the close of the same year ...
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... Nabob of Arcot's debts . The theme was unpromising , and he rose to speak under every possible disadvantage . It was late at night , or rather early in the morning , and the House was so exhausted by the previous debate , and so weary ...
... Nabob of Arcot's debts . The theme was unpromising , and he rose to speak under every possible disadvantage . It was late at night , or rather early in the morning , and the House was so exhausted by the previous debate , and so weary ...
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... Nabob of Oude might stand for the King of Prussia ; the Nabob of Arcot I would compare , as superior in territory and equal in revenue , to the Elector 8 Now one hundred and fifty millions , great addi tions having been made to the ...
... Nabob of Oude might stand for the King of Prussia ; the Nabob of Arcot I would compare , as superior in territory and equal in revenue , to the Elector 8 Now one hundred and fifty millions , great addi tions having been made to the ...
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... Nabob of Oude ; the exile of the Ra- jah of Benares ; the beggary of the Nabob of Ben- gal ; the undone and captive condition of the Ra- jah and kingdom of Tanjore ; the destruction of the Polygars ; and , lastly , in the destruction of ...
... Nabob of Oude ; the exile of the Ra- jah of Benares ; the beggary of the Nabob of Ben- gal ; the undone and captive condition of the Ra- jah and kingdom of Tanjore ; the destruction of the Polygars ; and , lastly , in the destruction of ...
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... thought , which is the appropriate object of figurative language . 13 The paltry foundation at Calcutta is scarcely worth naming as an exception . ་ come up again in his speech on the Nabob 318 [ 1783 . MR . BURKE ON THE.
... thought , which is the appropriate object of figurative language . 13 The paltry foundation at Calcutta is scarcely worth naming as an exception . ་ come up again in his speech on the Nabob 318 [ 1783 . MR . BURKE ON THE.
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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...