Speeches on Social and Political Subjects: Military floggingRichard Griffin, 1857 - Great Britain |
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... speaking ; for nothing could be more dull and unimpressive than his speech , nothing less clear and distinct than its reasoning , more feeble than its style , or more embarrassed and inefficient than its delivery . The writer and the ...
... speaking ; for nothing could be more dull and unimpressive than his speech , nothing less clear and distinct than its reasoning , more feeble than its style , or more embarrassed and inefficient than its delivery . The writer and the ...
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... speak the honest conviction of our hearts ) see nothing peculiarly pitiable in the lot of his soldiers when compared with that of our own . Were we called upon to make our election between the services , the whipcord would at once ...
... speak the honest conviction of our hearts ) see nothing peculiarly pitiable in the lot of his soldiers when compared with that of our own . Were we called upon to make our election between the services , the whipcord would at once ...
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... speak or write against , as well as for ) , - whether he has still a right to impeach , not one individual character , not one or two public men , not a single error in policy , not any particular abuse of an established system - I do ...
... speak or write against , as well as for ) , - whether he has still a right to impeach , not one individual character , not one or two public men , not a single error in policy , not any particular abuse of an established system - I do ...
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... speak otherwise than severely ? or , how- ever moderately I may express myself , can I speak otherwise than most unfavourably of it , even after the legislature has sanctioned it , and laid it on the country ? And yet the Attorney ...
... speak otherwise than severely ? or , how- ever moderately I may express myself , can I speak otherwise than most unfavourably of it , even after the legislature has sanctioned it , and laid it on the country ? And yet the Attorney ...
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... speak one's sentiments of the expeditions sent from this country ? If a man should say , " You are despatching our gallant troops to leave their bones in those charnel- houses , as Sir Robert Wilson calls them , which are constantly ...
... speak one's sentiments of the expeditions sent from this country ? If a man should say , " You are despatching our gallant troops to leave their bones in those charnel- houses , as Sir Robert Wilson calls them , which are constantly ...
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