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, & Notes, Critical & Explanatory |
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... consider and decide on the plan proposed . The moment the Articles were read in that body , and given to the public in print , they were met with a burst of indignant reprobation from every quarter . A federal union which should confer ...
... consider and decide on the plan proposed . The moment the Articles were read in that body , and given to the public in print , they were met with a burst of indignant reprobation from every quarter . A federal union which should confer ...
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... consider our di visions . We are under the happy reign , blessed be God , of the best of queens , who has no evi design against the meanest of her subjects ; whe loves all her people , and is equally beloved by them again ; and yet ...
... consider our di visions . We are under the happy reign , blessed be God , of the best of queens , who has no evi design against the meanest of her subjects ; whe loves all her people , and is equally beloved by them again ; and yet ...
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... considering time or power , will most glorious queen in Europe . venture his all for the Kirk , but something less ... consider it as adapted to make " a comely appearance and an agreeable suit , " from its Low - Church character , and ...
... considering time or power , will most glorious queen in Europe . venture his all for the Kirk , but something less ... consider it as adapted to make " a comely appearance and an agreeable suit , " from its Low - Church character , and ...
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... considering the universal clamor against him , it is high time to reduce him to such a condition that he may be brought ... consider my character and reputation as of no moment ? Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House , in ...
... considering the universal clamor against him , it is high time to reduce him to such a condition that he may be brought ... consider my character and reputation as of no moment ? Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House , in ...
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... consider the articles of accusation which they have brought against me , and which they have not thought fit to reduce to specific charges ; and I shall consider these in the saine ency some months after , when war was declared against ...
... consider the articles of accusation which they have brought against me , and which they have not thought fit to reduce to specific charges ; and I shall consider these in the saine ency some months after , when war was declared against ...
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370 페이지 - 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.
375 페이지 - 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.
287 페이지 - 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.
133 페이지 - 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...
375 페이지 - 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.
274 페이지 - 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.
372 페이지 - 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.
274 페이지 - ... 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.
267 페이지 - 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...
271 페이지 - 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.