Sir John Eliot. John Pym. Lord Chatham. Lord Mansfield. Edmund BurkeCharles Kendall Adams Putnam, 1884 - Speeches, addresses, etc., English |
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... honor , calls upon us to remonstrate in the strongest and loudest language of truth , to rescue the ear of majesty from the delusions which surround it . The desperate state of our arms abroad is in part known . No man thinks more ...
... honor , calls upon us to remonstrate in the strongest and loudest language of truth , to rescue the ear of majesty from the delusions which surround it . The desperate state of our arms abroad is in part known . No man thinks more ...
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... honor . But is the sense of honor consistent with a spirit of plunder , or the practice of murder ? Can it flow from mer- cenary motives , or can it prompt to cruel deeds ? Besides these murderers and plunder- ers , let me ask our ...
... honor . But is the sense of honor consistent with a spirit of plunder , or the practice of murder ? Can it flow from mer- cenary motives , or can it prompt to cruel deeds ? Besides these murderers and plunder- ers , let me ask our ...
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... honor ; they shock me as a lover of honorable war , and a detester of murderous barbarity . These abominable principles , and this more abominable avowal of them , demand the most decisive indignation . I call upon that right rev- erend ...
... honor ; they shock me as a lover of honorable war , and a detester of murderous barbarity . These abominable principles , and this more abominable avowal of them , demand the most decisive indignation . I call upon that right rev- erend ...
Contents
SIR JOHN ELIOT | 1 |
ON THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND UNDER THE DUKE OF BUCK | 13 |
JOHN | 27 |
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