Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries; with Sketches of Their Lives, an Estimate of Their Genius, & Notes, Critical & Explanatory |
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... less interest for an American In room of this , the reader will find the most striking passages in his works on the French Revolution , so that this volume contains nearly every thing which most persons can have any desire to study in ...
... less interest for an American In room of this , the reader will find the most striking passages in his works on the French Revolution , so that this volume contains nearly every thing which most persons can have any desire to study in ...
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... less for the State . The greatest difficulty is how to describe a Scots Tory . Of old , when I knew them first , Tory was an honest - hearted , com- radish fellow , who , provided he was maintained and protected in his benefices ...
... less for the State . The greatest difficulty is how to describe a Scots Tory . Of old , when I knew them first , Tory was an honest - hearted , com- radish fellow , who , provided he was maintained and protected in his benefices ...
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... less , and their opponents more , than had been administration of Godolphin , Somers , & c . , conse- generally expected under the Whig administra quent thereon . This change of ministry led to the tion . against aim ; that he desired ...
... less , and their opponents more , than had been administration of Godolphin , Somers , & c . , conse- generally expected under the Whig administra quent thereon . This change of ministry led to the tion . against aim ; that he desired ...
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... less liberal of their contributions ; and that money was withhe'd till it was known in what expeditions it was to be employed , to what princes subsidies were to be paid , and what advantages were to be purchased by it for our country ...
... less liberal of their contributions ; and that money was withhe'd till it was known in what expeditions it was to be employed , to what princes subsidies were to be paid , and what advantages were to be purchased by it for our country ...
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... less numerous , it may be more easily governed . The lotteries , my Lords , which former minis- ters have proposed , have always been censured by those who saw their nature and their tend- ency . They have been considered as legal ...
... less numerous , it may be more easily governed . The lotteries , my Lords , which former minis- ters have proposed , have always been censured by those who saw their nature and their tend- ency . They have been considered as legal ...
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Page 370 - 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 375 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection . As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born.
Page 287 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Page 133 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! 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 375 - Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures each in their appointed place.
Page 274 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 372 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
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 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...
Page 271 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.