The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language; Arranged Under Three Distinct Heads of Popular, Parliamentary, and Judicial Oratory: with Historical Illustrations: to which is Prefixed, an Introduction to the Study and Practice of Eloquence, Band 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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... Peace , in 1783 Lord SHELBURNE's Defence thereof 67 68 CHAP . VII . Toleration Speech of Dr. SHIPLEY , Bishop of ST . ASAPH , in Support of the Bill for enlarging the Toleration Act , in the Session of 1779 Mr. BEAUFOY's Speech on the ...
... Peace , in 1783 Lord SHELBURNE's Defence thereof 67 68 CHAP . VII . Toleration Speech of Dr. SHIPLEY , Bishop of ST . ASAPH , in Support of the Bill for enlarging the Toleration Act , in the Session of 1779 Mr. BEAUFOY's Speech on the ...
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... Peace - 413 Historical Illustrations relative to the Failure of Lord MALMSBURY's second Negociation 443 The Marquis of LANSDOWN's able and animated Speech on this Subject in the House of Lords 444 CHAP . XIII . CHAP Troubles in IRELAND ...
... Peace - 413 Historical Illustrations relative to the Failure of Lord MALMSBURY's second Negociation 443 The Marquis of LANSDOWN's able and animated Speech on this Subject in the House of Lords 444 CHAP . XIII . CHAP Troubles in IRELAND ...
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... peace ? Not to sheathe the sword in the scabbard , but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen ? The Americans have been wronged ; they have been driven to madness by injustice . Will you punish them for the madness you have ...
... peace ? Not to sheathe the sword in the scabbard , but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen ? The Americans have been wronged ; they have been driven to madness by injustice . Will you punish them for the madness you have ...
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... peace and harmony , which then so happily subsisted between the colonies , and the mother country ? My lords , it has always been my fixed and unalterable opinion , and I will carry it with me to the grave , that this country had no had ...
... peace and harmony , which then so happily subsisted between the colonies , and the mother country ? My lords , it has always been my fixed and unalterable opinion , and I will carry it with me to the grave , that this country had no had ...
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... peace ! ' But the greatest effort of a nature directly conciliatory was made on the 19th of April 1774 , by Mr. ROSE FULLER , who moved , " That the House resolve itself into a committee to take into consideration the duty on the ...
... peace ! ' But the greatest effort of a nature directly conciliatory was made on the 19th of April 1774 , by Mr. ROSE FULLER , who moved , " That the House resolve itself into a committee to take into consideration the duty on the ...
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Seite 81 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Seite 44 - 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 46 - I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own : I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character: I invoke the genius of the constitution.
Seite 87 - Cup. For as the benefit is great, if with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive that holy Sacrament ; (for then we spiritually eat the Flesh of Christ, and drink His Blood; then we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us; we are one with Christ, and Christ with us ;) so is the danger great, if we receive the same unworthily.
Seite 43 - Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Seite 88 - Christ with us :) so is the danger great if we receive the same unworthily. For then we are guilty of the body and blood of Christ our Saviour ; we eat and drink our own damnation, not considering the Lord's body...
Seite 17 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Seite 28 - For a wise man, he seemed to me at that time, to be governed too much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and I hope without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most indulgent to our unhappy species, and surely a little too general, led him into measures that were...
Seite 30 - If he had not so great a stock as some have had who flourished formerly, of knowledge long treasured up, he knew better by far than any man I ever was acquainted with, how to bring together within a short time, all that was necessary to establish, to illustrate, and to decorate that side of the question he supported.
Seite 46 - 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.