Beeton's Public Speaker. A Collection of Specimens of British and Foreign Eloquence, Political, Ecclesiastical and MiscellaneousWard, Lock&Company, 1875 - 305 pages |
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... University , he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1731. He rapidly rose in his profession ; was made Solicitor - General in 1743 , and the same year entered Parliament , where he made a great figure as a High Tory . In 1754 he ...
... University , he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1731. He rapidly rose in his profession ; was made Solicitor - General in 1743 , and the same year entered Parliament , where he made a great figure as a High Tory . In 1754 he ...
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... University . In 1754 he was called to the bar , and rapidly rose in his profession . He entered Parliament in 1768 , as member for Tamworth , was appointed Solicitor - General in 1770 , and Attorney - General in the follow- ing year ...
... University . In 1754 he was called to the bar , and rapidly rose in his profession . He entered Parliament in 1768 , as member for Tamworth , was appointed Solicitor - General in 1770 , and Attorney - General in the follow- ing year ...
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... University . He then went to sea as a midshipman , but after four years quitted the service and entered a regiment of foot . At the age of twenty - six he took a degree at Trinity College , Cambridge , became a student of Lincoln's Inn ...
... University . He then went to sea as a midshipman , but after four years quitted the service and entered a regiment of foot . At the age of twenty - six he took a degree at Trinity College , Cambridge , became a student of Lincoln's Inn ...
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... University , and University College , Oxford , and in 1783 was elected member of Parliament for the city of Norwich . He took part in the impeachment of Warren Hastings ; held the office of Secretary of War for seven years under Pitt's ...
... University , and University College , Oxford , and in 1783 was elected member of Parliament for the city of Norwich . He took part in the impeachment of Warren Hastings ; held the office of Secretary of War for seven years under Pitt's ...
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... University , and by his ready , perspi- cuous , and condensed eloquence , took a place at once in the front rank of parliamentary debaters . In 1827 he was raised to the peerage , and at the same time made Chief Justice of the Common ...
... University , and by his ready , perspi- cuous , and condensed eloquence , took a place at once in the front rank of parliamentary debaters . In 1827 he was raised to the peerage , and at the same time made Chief Justice of the Common ...
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Page 176 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Page 169 - Being, who is infinitely more than an adequate object of all those affections : whom we are commanded to love with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.
Page 26 - 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 34 - ... directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But, to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master...
Page 195 - I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession, that thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 253 - He feels it beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding di.sclosure. He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Page 21 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Page 213 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 175 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 176 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.