Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries; with Sketches of Their Lives, an Estimate of Their Genius, and Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper & brothers, 1852 - 947 pages |
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... ruin us . To show this more fully , I believe you will all hold it necessary that what I say , should not seem an aspersion on the state or imputation on the government , as I have known such motions misinterpreted . But far is this ...
... ruin us . To show this more fully , I believe you will all hold it necessary that what I say , should not seem an aspersion on the state or imputation on the government , as I have known such motions misinterpreted . But far is this ...
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... ruin . " There was a de- ficiency of proofs as to the facts alleged . The Earl declared that " the customs of England dif- fered exceedingly from those of Ireland ; and therefore , though cessing of men might seem strange here , it was ...
... ruin . " There was a de- ficiency of proofs as to the facts alleged . The Earl declared that " the customs of England dif- fered exceedingly from those of Ireland ; and therefore , though cessing of men might seem strange here , it was ...
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... ruin ! And so , my Lords , even so , with all tranquil- lity of mind , I submit myself to your decision . And whether your judgment in my case - I wish it were not the case of you all be for life or for death , it shall be righteous in ...
... ruin ! And so , my Lords , even so , with all tranquil- lity of mind , I submit myself to your decision . And whether your judgment in my case - I wish it were not the case of you all be for life or for death , it shall be righteous in ...
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... ruin Charles by his rashness and pertinacity , than any other man . But , whatever may be thought of Digby , the speech is one of great manliness and force . It is plausible in its statements , just in its distinc- tions , and weighty ...
... ruin Charles by his rashness and pertinacity , than any other man . But , whatever may be thought of Digby , the speech is one of great manliness and force . It is plausible in its statements , just in its distinc- tions , and weighty ...
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... ruin to his innocent posterity , upon a law made à posteriori . Let the mark be set on the door where the plague is , and then let him that will enter , die.2 I know , Mr. Speaker , there is in Parliament a double power of life and ...
... ruin to his innocent posterity , upon a law made à posteriori . Let the mark be set on the door where the plague is , and then let him that will enter , die.2 I know , Mr. Speaker , there is in Parliament a double power of life and ...
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Page 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.
Page 10 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not...
Page 366 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; 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.
Page 270 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners : yet shall, before you taste death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 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.
Page 235 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Page 138 - I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Page 274 - 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 366 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy.
Page 267 - 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...