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... ; but he was prolix in the whole texture of his discourse , and he was certainly the first who introduced into our senate the practice , adopted in the American war by Mr. Burke , and continued by others , of long 34 LORD CHATHAM .
... ; but he was prolix in the whole texture of his discourse , and he was certainly the first who introduced into our senate the practice , adopted in the American war by Mr. Burke , and continued by others , of long 34 LORD CHATHAM .
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... practices are let loose amongst us , to turn forth into our settlements , among our ancient connexions , friends , and relations , the merciless cannibal , thirsting for the blood of man , woman , and child - to send forth the infidel ...
... practices are let loose amongst us , to turn forth into our settlements , among our ancient connexions , friends , and relations , the merciless cannibal , thirsting for the blood of man , woman , and child - to send forth the infidel ...
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... practice never can know it , unless during the interval between one ministry and another . The less he is in general accustomed to this burthen , the more hard does he find it to bear when he has no minister to cast it upon ...
... practice never can know it , unless during the interval between one ministry and another . The less he is in general accustomed to this burthen , the more hard does he find it to bear when he has no minister to cast it upon ...
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... practice and deep knowledge of men ; his ready fluency ; his cool determined courage - would alto- gether have made him a most accomplished debater , even independent of those peculiar qualities in which men - he , and indeed all his ...
... practice and deep knowledge of men ; his ready fluency ; his cool determined courage - would alto- gether have made him a most accomplished debater , even independent of those peculiar qualities in which men - he , and indeed all his ...
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... practice has made it matter of course . will confer it on you during pleasure , with an additional salary to make it equal to the sum received by La Hold : It must be termed an additional salary that the income may not be increased in o ...
... practice has made it matter of course . will confer it on you during pleasure , with an additional salary to make it equal to the sum received by La Hold : It must be termed an additional salary that the income may not be increased in o ...
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Page 42 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Page 235 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 40 - 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 37 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 41 - Spain; in vain he defended and established the honour, the liberties, the religion, the Protestant religion, of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of popery and the inquisition, if these more than popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us...
Page 45 - I confess, Sir, I had but too much reason to expect your Majesty's displeasure. I had not come prepared for this exceeding goodness. Pardon me, Sir," he passionately exclaimed, " it overpowers — it oppresses me...
Page 37 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Page 409 - I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages; to enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition; a law under which no Englishman would wish to live an hour...
Page 431 - I scarcely ever met with a better companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge ; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with every vice, and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted. He told us himself, that in this time of public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune.
Page 39 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts; they must be repealed — you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally, repealed.