Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 - Great Britain |
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... feel a pride in declaring , that to his patronage , to his friend- ship , and instruction , I owe whatever I am . This great man has often observed to me that , in all the negotiations which preceded the convention , our mi- nisters ...
... feel a pride in declaring , that to his patronage , to his friend- ship , and instruction , I owe whatever I am . This great man has often observed to me that , in all the negotiations which preceded the convention , our mi- nisters ...
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... the mass of the people . Can it be expected that Englishmen will unite heartily in the defence of a government , by which they feel them- selves insulted and oppressed ? Restore them to their rights THE RELATIONS WITH SPAIN . 21.
... the mass of the people . Can it be expected that Englishmen will unite heartily in the defence of a government , by which they feel them- selves insulted and oppressed ? Restore them to their rights THE RELATIONS WITH SPAIN . 21.
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... feel it with sorrow , I utter it with reluctance ) that reverential affection , which so endearing a name of authority ought ever to carry with it ; that you are obeyed solely from respect to the bayonet ; and that this house , the ...
... feel it with sorrow , I utter it with reluctance ) that reverential affection , which so endearing a name of authority ought ever to carry with it ; that you are obeyed solely from respect to the bayonet ; and that this house , the ...
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... feeling humbled by the unhappy issue of their measures , seemed to be infinitely elated , and cried out , that the ministry , from envy to the glory of their predecessors , were prepared to repeal the stamp act . Near nine years after ...
... feeling humbled by the unhappy issue of their measures , seemed to be infinitely elated , and cried out , that the ministry , from envy to the glory of their predecessors , were prepared to repeal the stamp act . Near nine years after ...
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... feel ; but if I had stood in that situation , I never would have exchanged it for all that kings in their profusion could bestow . I did hope , that that day's danger and honour would have been a bond to hold us all together for ever ...
... feel ; but if I had stood in that situation , I never would have exchanged it for all that kings in their profusion could bestow . I did hope , that that day's danger and honour would have been a bond to hold us all together for ever ...
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Page 2 - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, « An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Page 122 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 176 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 259 - 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 122 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Page 138 - ... a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 142 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Page 165 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Page 141 - These are deep questions where great names militate against each other; where reason is perplexed; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is ' the great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk.
Page 128 - 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. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles, and such will be all masters of .slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.