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" to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country. "
Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham ... - Page 314
by John Almon - 1810
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Oratory, British and Irish: The Great Age (from the Accession of George the ...

Godfrey Locker Lampson - Great Britain - 1918 - 628 pages
...means that God and nature put into our hands."1 Tlic Earl of Chatham again rose : I am astonished ! shocked ! to hear such principles confessed, to hear them avowed in this House, or even in this country ; principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman, and unchristian ! My Lords, I...
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Oral Reading & Public Speaking

John Reinder Pelsma - Elocution - 1918 - 516 pages
...with face as tranquil and with smile as sweet as patriarch ever wore. — GRAVES. 4. I am astonished, shocked, to hear such principles confessed, to hear them avowed in this House, or even in this country"! Principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman^ and unchristiari ! — SELECTED....
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History of Ohio, Volume 1

Charles Burleigh Galbreath - Biography - 1925 - 780 pages
...Suffolk, 'to use all the means which God and Nature have put into our hands.' I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed : to hear them avowed in this house on in this country. * * * What ideas of God and Nature that noble lord may entertain I know not; but...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 2

John Marshall - Presidents - 1926 - 578 pages
...bursts of eloquence that the pen of history has recorded: "I am astonished," exclaimed his lordship, "shocked to hear such principles confessed; to hear them avowed in this house or even this country. My lords, I did not intend to have encroached again on your attention, but I can...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 67

English literature - 1838 - 596 pages
...induces us to insert it here at length. ' I am astonished,' exclaimed Lord Chatham, as he rose — ' shocked — to hear such principles confessed, to hear them avowed, in this House or jn this country — principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman, and unchristian. c My Lords, I did...
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The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2: Earl of Chatham

Basil Williams - Political Science - 1966 - 440 pages
...use all the means that God and nature have put into our hands.' Chatham sprang up : I am astonished ! shocked ! to hear such principles confessed — to...equally unconstitutional, inhuman, and unchristian ! . . . I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature, but I know that such abominable...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 66

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 650 pages
...this, Lord Chatham burst out into one of his finest strains : — ' I am astonished !' exclaimed lie, ' shocked, to hear such principles confessed — to...intend to have encroached again upon your attention ; but^I cannot repress my indignation — I feel myself impelled by every duty. My Lords, we are called...
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Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns: The ladies' appeal and protest

Ingrid Sharp, Jane Jordan - Prostitution - 2002 - 388 pages
...this Lord Chatham replied: 66 — "I am astonished! shocked! to hear such principles confessed—to hear them avowed in this House, or in this country,...unconstitutional, inhuman and unchristian! My Lords, 1 did not intend to have encroached again upon your attention, but 1 cannot repress my indignation....
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Side Lights on English History: Extracts from Letters, Papers, and Diaries ...

Ernest F. Henderson - History - 2004 - 468 pages
...all the means that God and Nature put into our hands." Pitt (suddenly rising) : " I am astonished, shocked ! to hear such principles confessed — to...feel myself impelled by every duty. My Lords, we are i 8 i o 03 called upon as members of this house, as men, as Christian men, to protest against such...
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