Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, Ư of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two CenturiesHarper, 1852 - 947 pages |
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... mean the expedition to Rhé , of which there is yet so sad a memory in all men ? What design for us , or ... means , as the experi- ence of that time doth tell us , we were not only free from those fears that now possess and ...
... mean the expedition to Rhé , of which there is yet so sad a memory in all men ? What design for us , or ... means , as the experi- ence of that time doth tell us , we were not only free from those fears that now possess and ...
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... means we shall be debarred from speaking - the principal joy and comfort of life with wise and good men , to become wiser and better ourselves . If these things be strained to take away life , and honor , and all that is desirable ...
... means we shall be debarred from speaking - the principal joy and comfort of life with wise and good men , to become wiser and better ourselves . If these things be strained to take away life , and honor , and all that is desirable ...
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... means an ex- ecution of such as are already in being . " They are , from their very nature , ex post facto laws . They proceed on the principle that while judicial courts are to be governed by the strict letter of the law , as ...
... means an ex- ecution of such as are already in being . " They are , from their very nature , ex post facto laws . They proceed on the principle that while judicial courts are to be governed by the strict letter of the law , as ...
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... means in- crease by concord . I fear not these Articles , though they were ten times worse than they are , if we ... mean and contemptible terms ! Where were the great men of the noble families - the Stewarts , Hamiltons , Grahams ...
... means in- crease by concord . I fear not these Articles , though they were ten times worse than they are , if we ... mean and contemptible terms ! Where were the great men of the noble families - the Stewarts , Hamiltons , Grahams ...
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... mean fortune , raised to be chief minister of state by the concurrence of many whimsical events ; afraid or ... means , neglected or misunderstood ; her honor and credit lost ; her trade insulted ; her merchants plundered ; and ...
... mean fortune , raised to be chief minister of state by the concurrence of many whimsical events ; afraid or ... means , neglected or misunderstood ; her honor and credit lost ; her trade insulted ; her merchants plundered ; and ...
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Page 372 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 377 - 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.
Page 289 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Page 135 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Page 377 - Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures each in their appointed place.
Page 276 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 374 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Page 276 - ... 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.
Page 269 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented, from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Page 273 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.