Speeches on Social and Political Subjects: Military floggingRichard Griffin, 1857 - Great Britain |
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... language ; and indeed , his Lordship thought that all officers , instead of publishing on so delicate a subject , ought to have privately given their opinions to the government . At Lincoln , where Mr. Brougham went on a special ...
... language ; and indeed , his Lordship thought that all officers , instead of publishing on so delicate a subject , ought to have privately given their opinions to the government . At Lincoln , where Mr. Brougham went on a special ...
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... language as much too weak or as far too strong for the occasion -still if you are convinced there is nothing blameable in the intention which appears to have actuated the author and publisher ( for I will take the question on the ...
... language as much too weak or as far too strong for the occasion -still if you are convinced there is nothing blameable in the intention which appears to have actuated the author and publisher ( for I will take the question on the ...
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... language I could use myself . The arguments are there so forcibly stated , and the subject is altogether placed in so luminous a point of view , that it is better for me to give them in the words of the respected writer , the gallant ...
... language I could use myself . The arguments are there so forcibly stated , and the subject is altogether placed in so luminous a point of view , that it is better for me to give them in the words of the respected writer , the gallant ...
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... language powerful in- deed , and strong , but anything rather than libellous , It is strange that in a free country , a custom so repugnant to freedom , as enlisting for life , and to the particular character of the British constitution ...
... language powerful in- deed , and strong , but anything rather than libellous , It is strange that in a free country , a custom so repugnant to freedom , as enlisting for life , and to the particular character of the British constitution ...
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... language as strong , as expressive of his honest feel- ings , and , therefore , as appropriate and praiseworthy , he talks of the service in the West India Islands , and even goes so far as to wish those colonies were aban- doned . I am ...
... language as strong , as expressive of his honest feel- ings , and , therefore , as appropriate and praiseworthy , he talks of the service in the West India Islands , and even goes so far as to wish those colonies were aban- doned . I am ...
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