Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... give immediate orders for removing his troops from Boston forthwith , in order to quiet the minds and take away the apprehensions of his good subjects in America , 225 1 Lord Mansfield's Speech , in the house of lords , February 3d ...
... give immediate orders for removing his troops from Boston forthwith , in order to quiet the minds and take away the apprehensions of his good subjects in America , 225 1 Lord Mansfield's Speech , in the house of lords , February 3d ...
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... give a pledge , at once , of the value of the work , and of the. * Although the Editor has omitted no practicable mode of research ; though he has availed himself of the very valuable assistance of one of the most diligent inquirers ...
... give a pledge , at once , of the value of the work , and of the. * Although the Editor has omitted no practicable mode of research ; though he has availed himself of the very valuable assistance of one of the most diligent inquirers ...
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... give orders , that there be laid before the House copies or extracts of all letters and papers received by the ministry , between the 12th of September 1769 and the 12th of September 1770 , containing any intelligence of hostilities ...
... give orders , that there be laid before the House copies or extracts of all letters and papers received by the ministry , between the 12th of September 1769 and the 12th of September 1770 , containing any intelligence of hostilities ...
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... give my hearty assent to the motion made by the noble duke . By his grace's favour , I have been permitted to see it , before it was offered to the house . I have fully considered the ne- cessity of obtaining from the king's servants a ...
... give my hearty assent to the motion made by the noble duke . By his grace's favour , I have been permitted to see it , before it was offered to the house . I have fully considered the ne- cessity of obtaining from the king's servants a ...
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... give currency to an absolute falsehood . I beg your lord- ship's attention , and I hope I shall be understood , when I repeat , that the court of Spain's having dis- avowed the act of their governour is an absolute , a palpable ...
... give currency to an absolute falsehood . I beg your lord- ship's attention , and I hope I shall be understood , when I repeat , that the court of Spain's having dis- avowed the act of their governour is an absolute , a palpable ...
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Page 2 - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, « An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Page 122 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 176 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 259 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 122 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's 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.
Page 138 - ... a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 142 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Page 165 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Page 141 - These are deep questions where great names militate against each other; where reason is perplexed; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is ' the great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk.
Page 128 - 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. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles, and such will be all masters of .slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.