Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated Orators of America, Ireland, and England, Volume 3E.C. & J. Biddle, 1845 - Great Britain |
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... speak not with respect to parties . I stand up in this place single and independent . As to the late ministry , every capital measure they have taken , has been entirely wrong ! As to the present gentlemen , to those at least whom I ...
... speak not with respect to parties . I stand up in this place single and independent . As to the late ministry , every capital measure they have taken , has been entirely wrong ! As to the present gentlemen , to those at least whom I ...
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... speak with decency of every act of this house : but I must beg the indulgence of the house to speak of it with freedom . I hope a day may be soon appointed to consider the state of the nation with respect to America . I hope gentlemen ...
... speak with decency of every act of this house : but I must beg the indulgence of the house to speak of it with freedom . I hope a day may be soon appointed to consider the state of the nation with respect to America . I hope gentlemen ...
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... speak to one point , a point which seems not to have been generally under- stood . I mean to the right . Some gentlemen seem to have considered it as a point of honor . If gentlemen consider it in that light , they leave all measures of ...
... speak to one point , a point which seems not to have been generally under- stood . I mean to the right . Some gentlemen seem to have considered it as a point of honor . If gentlemen consider it in that light , they leave all measures of ...
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... speak for itself . In what instance does it interfere with the privileges of the house of commons ? In what respect does it question their jurisdiction , or suppose an authority in this house to arraign the justice of their sentence ? I ...
... speak for itself . In what instance does it interfere with the privileges of the house of commons ? In what respect does it question their jurisdiction , or suppose an authority in this house to arraign the justice of their sentence ? I ...
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... speak of without reverence , which no man may question , and to which all men must submit ? My lords , I thought the slavish doctrine of passive obedience had long since been exploded ; and , when our kings were obliged to confess that ...
... speak of without reverence , which no man may question , and to which all men must submit ? My lords , I thought the slavish doctrine of passive obedience had long since been exploded ; and , when our kings were obliged to confess that ...
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Page 36 - If I were an American — as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms ; NEVER ! — NEVER ! — NEVER!
Page 481 - ... 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.
Page 351 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 481 - Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England? Do you imagine then that it is the Land Tax Act which raises your revenue, that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply which gives you your army? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No! surely no! It is the love of the people, it is their attachment to their Government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Page 480 - 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.
Page 32 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 92 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty; are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution? Are we to give them our weakness for their strength; our opprobrium for their glory; and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom?
Page 36 - You cannot, my lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much.
Page 86 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
Page 351 - ... it argues in what good plight and constitution the body is ; so when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs, and wax young again, entering the glorious ways of truth and...