Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries ...Harper & brothers, 1856 - 947 pages |
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... trust your Lordships are too honorable and just to lay them to my charge as High Treason . Opinions may make a heretic , but that they make a traitor I have never heard till now . ( 2. ) I am come next to speak of the actions which have ...
... trust your Lordships are too honorable and just to lay them to my charge as High Treason . Opinions may make a heretic , but that they make a traitor I have never heard till now . ( 2. ) I am come next to speak of the actions which have ...
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... trust ; and I will say with con- fidence that I have served the House in it , not only with industry , according to my ability , but with most exact faithfulness and justice . And as I have hitherto discharged my duty to this House and ...
... trust ; and I will say with con- fidence that I have served the House in it , not only with industry , according to my ability , but with most exact faithfulness and justice . And as I have hitherto discharged my duty to this House and ...
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... trust as often , if not more , than any Scotchman ever had . He hath been the favorite of two successive sovereigns ; and I can not but commend his con- stancy and perseverance , that , notwithstanding his former difficulties and ...
... trust as often , if not more , than any Scotchman ever had . He hath been the favorite of two successive sovereigns ; and I can not but commend his con- stancy and perseverance , that , notwithstanding his former difficulties and ...
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... trust any but creatures of pose this chief minister pluming himself in defi- his own making , and most of them equally aban- ances , because he finds he has got a Parliament , doned to all notions of virtue or honor ; ignorant like a ...
... trust any but creatures of pose this chief minister pluming himself in defi- his own making , and most of them equally aban- ances , because he finds he has got a Parliament , doned to all notions of virtue or honor ; ignorant like a ...
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... trust that their advancement will not be imputed to me as a crime , unless it shall be proved that I placed them in offices of trust and responsibility for which they were unfit . But while I unequivocally deny that I am sole and prime ...
... trust that their advancement will not be imputed to me as a crime , unless it shall be proved that I placed them in offices of trust and responsibility for which they were unfit . But while I unequivocally deny that I am sole and prime ...
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Page 371 - 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 366 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 291 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 138 - That God and Nature have put into our hands ! " What ideas of God and Nature that noble lord may entertain, I know not ; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and Nature...
Page 271 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Page 387 - Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 369 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
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 272 - Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing.
Page 290 - Freedom, they will turn their faces toward you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have. The more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They...