Beeton's Public Speaker. A Collection of Specimens of British and Foreign Eloquence, Political, Ecclesiastical and MiscellaneousWard, Lock&Company, 1875 - 305 Seiten |
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... authorities , and , wherever it was possible , have been chosen so as to be truly representative of the speakers . The arrangement is chronological , the orators following one another in the order of their birth . This , in two or three ...
... authorities , and , wherever it was possible , have been chosen so as to be truly representative of the speakers . The arrangement is chronological , the orators following one another in the order of their birth . This , in two or three ...
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... authority of the House of Commons . If they were not interested , I might expect a no less easy , than I do a safe , issue . But let neither my weakness plead my innocence , nor their power my guilt . If your lordships will conceive of ...
... authority of the House of Commons . If they were not interested , I might expect a no less easy , than I do a safe , issue . But let neither my weakness plead my innocence , nor their power my guilt . If your lordships will conceive of ...
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... authority , and the safety and honour of his kingdom . Nor did I ever see that any advantage could be made by a war in Scotland , where nothing could be gained but hard blows . * " Strafford had no chance of acquittal except by inducing ...
... authority , and the safety and honour of his kingdom . Nor did I ever see that any advantage could be made by a war in Scotland , where nothing could be gained but hard blows . * " Strafford had no chance of acquittal except by inducing ...
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... authority of the British Parlia- ment . The appeal , however , had no effect , and the Treaty of Union was ratified by a majority of thirty - three out of two hundred and one members . That it was carried by bribery has now been clearly ...
... authority of the British Parlia- ment . The appeal , however , had no effect , and the Treaty of Union was ratified by a majority of thirty - three out of two hundred and one members . That it was carried by bribery has now been clearly ...
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... authority of Parliament will always be submissive to them . If an army be so numerous as to have it in their power to overawe Parliament , they will be submissive as long as the Parliament does nothing to disoblige their favourite ...
... authority of Parliament will always be submissive to them . If an army be so numerous as to have it in their power to overawe Parliament , they will be submissive as long as the Parliament does nothing to disoblige their favourite ...
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Seite 176 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Seite 169 - Being, who is infinitely more than an adequate object of all those affections : whom we are commanded to love with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.
Seite 26 - 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...
Seite 34 - ... directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But, to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master...
Seite 195 - I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession, that thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Seite 253 - He feels it beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding di.sclosure. He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Seite 21 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Seite 213 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Seite 175 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Seite 176 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.