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... direct , that consecutive ; this individual , that ac- cumulative ; this in itself , that by way of con- struction . I shall now proceed in repeating my defenses as they are reducible to the two main points of treason . And , I. For ...
... direct , that consecutive ; this individual , that ac- cumulative ; this in itself , that by way of con- struction . I shall now proceed in repeating my defenses as they are reducible to the two main points of treason . And , I. For ...
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... direct us to enact that they shall be treason for the future . But God keep me from giving judgment of death on any man , and of ruin to his innocent posterity , upon a law made à posteriori . Let the mark be set on the door where the ...
... direct us to enact that they shall be treason for the future . But God keep me from giving judgment of death on any man , and of ruin to his innocent posterity , upon a law made à posteriori . Let the mark be set on the door where the ...
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... direct opposition to every principle of justice , and establish this fatal precedent of parliament- ary inquisition ? Whom would they conciliate by a conduct so contrary to principle and pre- cedent ? Can it be fitting in them [ the ...
... direct opposition to every principle of justice , and establish this fatal precedent of parliament- ary inquisition ? Whom would they conciliate by a conduct so contrary to principle and pre- cedent ? Can it be fitting in them [ the ...
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... direct , and confident , though not overbearing manner , in which he ordinarily addressed himself to the judgment and feelings of the House . The language is uncommonly easy , pointed , and vigorous . The sentences flow lightly off in a ...
... direct , and confident , though not overbearing manner , in which he ordinarily addressed himself to the judgment and feelings of the House . The language is uncommonly easy , pointed , and vigorous . The sentences flow lightly off in a ...
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... direct nature , excluded him for years from the service of the Crown , until he was forced upon a reluctant monarch by the demands of the people . 66 Sir Robert Walpole , as might be supposed , listened to the eloquence of his youthful ...
... direct nature , excluded him for years from the service of the Crown , until he was forced upon a reluctant monarch by the demands of the people . 66 Sir Robert Walpole , as might be supposed , listened to the eloquence of his youthful ...
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Page 366 - ... 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 366 - 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.
Page 106 - America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 274 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 270 - ... death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life!
Page 369 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 274 - ... 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.
Page 368 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Page 290 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...
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...