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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... charged with high treason . The burden of the charge is heavy , yet far the more so because it hath borrowed the authority of the House of Commons . If they were not interested , I might expect a no less easy , than I do a safe , issue ...
... charged with high treason . The burden of the charge is heavy , yet far the more so because it hath borrowed the authority of the House of Commons . If they were not interested , I might expect a no less easy , than I do a safe , issue ...
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... charges , which affirm that I have designed the both of religion and of the state . 1. The first charge seemeth to be used rath- er to make me odious than guilty ; for there is not the least proof alleged - nor could there be any ...
... charges , which affirm that I have designed the both of religion and of the state . 1. The first charge seemeth to be used rath- er to make me odious than guilty ; for there is not the least proof alleged - nor could there be any ...
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... charge as High Treason . Opinions may make a heretic , but that they make a traitor I have never heard till now . ( 2. ) I am come next to speak of the actions which have been charged upon me . 66 [ Here the Earl went through with the ...
... charge as High Treason . Opinions may make a heretic , but that they make a traitor I have never heard till now . ( 2. ) I am come next to speak of the actions which have been charged upon me . 66 [ Here the Earl went through with the ...
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... charge him with that ; " but for the rest , he desired time to recollect himself , which was granted him . Some days after , he was examined a second time , and then deposed these words concerning the King's being absolv- ed from rules ...
... charge him with that ; " but for the rest , he desired time to recollect himself , which was granted him . Some days after , he was examined a second time , and then deposed these words concerning the King's being absolv- ed from rules ...
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... charge and the motives of the prosecutors . It has been observed by several gentlemen , interity with disgrace and infamy ? I will not vindication of this motion , that if it should be carried , neither my life , liberty , nor estate ...
... charge and the motives of the prosecutors . It has been observed by several gentlemen , interity with disgrace and infamy ? I will not vindication of this motion , that if it should be carried , neither my life , liberty , nor estate ...
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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...