 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 páginas
...highly just and expedient to raise a revenue in America. For even then, Sir, even before this splendid e genera! stock of the community grew by the general...protection that destroys India. It was their enmity, but ani set for ever. You understand, to be sure, that I speak of Charles Townshend, officially the re-producer... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 páginas
...American taxation : " Before this splendid orb" — said the orator, alluding to Chatham — " had entirely set, and while the western horizon was in...ascendant. This light, too, is passed and set for ever II speak of Charles Townshend, officially the re-producer of this fatal scheme, — American taxation... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 páginas
...highly just and expedient to raise a revenue in America. For even then, Sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon...You understand, to be sure, that I speak of Charles • Supposed to nll-.idc to the Ri^ht Honourable Lord North, and George Cooke, Esq.- who were made... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1837 - 694 páginas
...directed, the orator, closing his eulogium upon Lord Chatham, says, " Then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon...and set for ever; you understand, to be sure, that I am speaking of Charles Townshend, whom I cannot even now remember without some degree of sensibility.... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 páginas
...Townsend, unites in it all the excellences of the metaphor :— '' Even then, before this splendid orb wus entirely set, and while the western horizon was in...luminary, and for his hour became lord of the ascendant." In this fine passage, the resemblance implied is such as to be highly illustrative ; there is a grandeur... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 páginas
...Townsend, unites in it all the excellences of the metaphor : — "* Even then, before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon...quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and for big hour became lord of the ascendant." In this fine passage, the resemblance implied is such as to... | |
 | William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1839 - 570 páginas
...highly just and expedient to raise a revenue in America. For even then, Sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon...luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant. You understand, to be sure, that I speak of Charles Townshend, officially the reproducer of this fatal... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), William Stanhope Taylor, John Henry Pringle - 1839 - 546 páginas
...highly just and expedient to raise a revenue in America. For even then, Sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon...luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant. You understand, to be sure, that I speak of Charles Townshend, officially the reproducer of this fatal... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 682 páginas
...orb was entirely set, and whilst the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, in an opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and for his hour became lord of the ascendant.' But many others have been laid under contribution besides Burke. A passage in the eulogium of Adams... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 326 páginas
...Townsend, unites in it all the excellences of the metaphor. i . • " Even then, before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon...luminary, and for his hour became lord of the ascendant." In this fine passage, the resemblance implied is such as to be highly illustrative ; there is a grandeur... | |
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For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant. 
