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... Lord North's plan . CONCLUSION . But had Burke been a beginner in argumentation , or had he examined sources , collected , analyzed , and chosen material for this occasion alone , or had he been presenting his brief to a court , he ...
... Lord North's plan . CONCLUSION . But had Burke been a beginner in argumentation , or had he examined sources , collected , analyzed , and chosen material for this occasion alone , or had he been presenting his brief to a court , he ...
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... Lord North's , in the same address.3 6 " If a student take the affirmative of a common debating - club proposition , Suffrage should be extended to women , ' he will find after collecting his proofs , that they need to be sorted and ...
... Lord North's , in the same address.3 6 " If a student take the affirmative of a common debating - club proposition , Suffrage should be extended to women , ' he will find after collecting his proofs , that they need to be sorted and ...
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... Lord Erskine's argument at the trial of Gordon , 2 consists in the definition and expo- sition of the term , " treason . " The conviction or the acquittal of the prisoner depended on the meaning of that word . Webster's speech on The ...
... Lord Erskine's argument at the trial of Gordon , 2 consists in the definition and expo- sition of the term , " treason . " The conviction or the acquittal of the prisoner depended on the meaning of that word . Webster's speech on The ...
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... Lords , this arbitrary power is not to be had by conquest . Nor can any sovereign have it by succession ; for no man can succeed to fraud , rapine and violence . Neither by compact , covenant , nor submission , for men cannot covenant ...
... Lords , this arbitrary power is not to be had by conquest . Nor can any sovereign have it by succession ; for no man can succeed to fraud , rapine and violence . Neither by compact , covenant , nor submission , for men cannot covenant ...
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... Lord Campbell , that skilled witnesses come with such a bias on their minds to support the cause in which they are embarked , that hardly any weight should be given to their evidence . ' ” 1 Authority . Expert testimony implies common ...
... Lord Campbell , that skilled witnesses come with such a bias on their minds to support the cause in which they are embarked , that hardly any weight should be given to their evidence . ' ” 1 Authority . Expert testimony implies common ...
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Page 338 - Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
Page 332 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe : censure me in your -wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 333 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 115 - If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Page 338 - And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 337 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii. Look ! in this place, ran Cassius...
Page 257 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Page 336 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Page 25 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 280 - The assassin enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber.