Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries; with Sketches of Their Lives ...Harper & brothers, 1853 - 947 Seiten |
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... brought in cunningly to sur- prise us . In these do lurk the strongest of our enemies , ready to issue on us ; and if we do not speedily expel them , these are the signs , these the invitations to others ! These will so prepare their ...
... brought in cunningly to sur- prise us . In these do lurk the strongest of our enemies , ready to issue on us ; and if we do not speedily expel them , these are the signs , these the invitations to others ! These will so prepare their ...
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... brought forward many offenses of inferior magnitude , as an index of his intentions ; and they never pretended that more than two or three of the articles contained charges which amounted strictly to high treason . In conducting the ...
... brought forward many offenses of inferior magnitude , as an index of his intentions ; and they never pretended that more than two or three of the articles contained charges which amounted strictly to high treason . In conducting the ...
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... brought against me , as if in a heap of mere felonies or misdemeanors ( for they reach no higher ) there could lurk some prolific seed to produce what is treasonable ! But , my Lords , when a thousand misdemeanors will not make one ...
... brought against me , as if in a heap of mere felonies or misdemeanors ( for they reach no higher ) there could lurk some prolific seed to produce what is treasonable ! But , my Lords , when a thousand misdemeanors will not make one ...
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... brought against a man as treason , this ( under favor ) takes away the com- fort of all human society . By this means we shall be debarred from speaking - the principal joy and comfort of life - with wise and good men , to become wiser ...
... brought against a man as treason , this ( under favor ) takes away the com- fort of all human society . By this means we shall be debarred from speaking - the principal joy and comfort of life - with wise and good men , to become wiser ...
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... brought me to this bar ; and , except your Lordships ' wisdom provide against it , the shed- ding of make way blood my may for the tracing out of yours . YOU , YOUR ESTATES , YOUR POS- TERITY , LIE AT THE STAKE ! For my poor self , if ...
... brought me to this bar ; and , except your Lordships ' wisdom provide against it , the shed- ding of make way blood my may for the tracing out of yours . YOU , YOUR ESTATES , YOUR POS- TERITY , LIE AT THE STAKE ! For my poor self , if ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 368 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Seite 348 - Then ensued a scene of woe the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc.
Seite 373 - 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 292 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 371 - ... 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.
Seite 293 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Seite 65 - 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 force dares not cross* the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Seite 293 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Seite 277 - Then, sir, from these six capital sources of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth ; a spirit that, unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not...