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Page 52 - Come the eleventh plague, rather than this should be; Come sink us rather in the sea. Come rather pestilence, and reap us down ; Come God's sword rather than our own. Let rather Roman come again, Or Saxon, Norman, or the Dane : In all the bonds we ever bore, We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept ; we never blush'd before.
Page 44 - I well remember, when the near and dear relation alluded to was a child, I observed to some friends that the man who discharged his duty to his country in the manner Mr Pitt had done, was the man of...
Page 23 - ... you, infallibly succeed. Yes, even if what is called genius shall have been denied to you, you have faculties of the mind, which may be so improved by constant exercise and vigilance, that they shall supply the place of genius, and open to you brighter prospects of ultimate success than genius, unaided by the same discipline, can hope to attain.
Page 25 - desires peace, not war ; but she will suffer no indignity, and will make no unbecoming concession. With every engine of power and perfidy arrayed against us, the situation of this country has demonstrated to Bonaparte that it is invulnerable in the very point to which all his efforts have been directed. The accounts of the exports of British manufactures would be found to exceed by several millions those of any former period.
Page 52 - ... grieved, we sighed, we wept ; — we never blushed before. Blush indeed we shall, if we submit to this base and vulgar domination ; and I for one, believing as I do, that I have been selected as an object of attack, for the purpose of discouraging resistance to the insidious efforts which the hon.
Page 64 - I have taken, from the first moment of my public life, an active and decided part on a great and vital question — that of the extension of political privileges to the Roman Catholics.
Page 38 - Mr. Peel would not DARE, in my presence, or in any place where he was liable to personal account, use a single expression derogatory to my interest, or my honour.
Page 95 - ... on good terms with all. If posterity shall decide to rank Sir Robert Peel among great men, he will rather be classed among the statesmen than among the orators. He may be talked of with Walpole, but not with Pitt or Fox. Oratory is a severe and 'exacting art. Its object is not...
Page 45 - He was ready to avow, without shame or remorse, that he went into the committee with a very different opinion from that which he at present entertained; for his views of the subject were most materially different when he voted against the resolutions brought forward, in 1811, by Mr. Horner, as the chairman of the bullion committee.
Page 44 - I thought at that moment that if my life, and that of my dear relative, should be spared, I would one day present him to his country to follow in the same path. It is very natural that such should be my wish, and I will only say further of him, that, though he is deviating from the proper path in this instance, his head and heart are in the right place, and I think they will soon recall him to the right way.