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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... seems , proceeded from bribery and corruption . Sir , if any one instance had been mentioned , ii it had been shown that I ever offered a reward to any member of either House , or ever threat- ened to deprive any member of his office or ...
... seems , proceeded from bribery and corruption . Sir , if any one instance had been mentioned , ii it had been shown that I ever offered a reward to any member of either House , or ever threat- ened to deprive any member of his office or ...
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... seems to prove that this was not the fact ; but , on the contrary , that Lord Chesterfield prepared them for publication himself . Lord Chesterfield filled many offices of the highest importance under the reign of George II . In 1728 he ...
... seems to prove that this was not the fact ; but , on the contrary , that Lord Chesterfield prepared them for publication himself . Lord Chesterfield filled many offices of the highest importance under the reign of George II . In 1728 he ...
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... seems to have been paid to it in the other House , the prospect of impunity on one part , or the so- through which it was hurried with the utmost licitation of opportunity on the other ? Either precipitation , and where it passed almost ...
... seems to have been paid to it in the other House , the prospect of impunity on one part , or the so- through which it was hurried with the utmost licitation of opportunity on the other ? Either precipitation , and where it passed almost ...
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... seem probable ; but it is a mere hypothesis , with- out the least evidence to support it . It is probably true that ... seems to have been at one time the opinion of Lord Camden , who says , in a confidential letter , " Lord Chatham is ...
... seem probable ; but it is a mere hypothesis , with- out the least evidence to support it . It is probably true that ... seems to have been at one time the opinion of Lord Camden , who says , in a confidential letter , " Lord Chatham is ...
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... seems to say , " We will treat with you , but we will search and take your ships ; we will sign a Convention , but we will keep your subjects prisoners in Ol Spain ; the West Indies are remote ; Eur - pe shall witness in what manner we ...
... seems to say , " We will treat with you , but we will search and take your ships ; we will sign a Convention , but we will keep your subjects prisoners in Ol Spain ; the West Indies are remote ; Eur - pe shall witness in what manner we ...
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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.