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, an Estimate of Their Genius, & Notes, Critical & Explanatory |
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... mind the things that concern the very being , and well - being of our ancient king- dom , before the day be hid from our eyes ? The greatest honor among us , my Lord , is to represent the sovereign's sacred person [ as High Commissioner ] ...
... mind the things that concern the very being , and well - being of our ancient king- dom , before the day be hid from our eyes ? The greatest honor among us , my Lord , is to represent the sovereign's sacred person [ as High Commissioner ] ...
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... mind freely . There are many wise and prudent men among us , who think it not worth their while to open their mouths ; there are others , who can speak very well , and to good purpose , who shel- ter themselves under the shameful cloak ...
... mind freely . There are many wise and prudent men among us , who think it not worth their while to open their mouths ; there are others , who can speak very well , and to good purpose , who shel- ter themselves under the shameful cloak ...
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... mind . And as this House is chosen by the free and unbiased voice of the people in general , if this choice were so often renewed , we might expect that this House would be as wavering and as unsteady as the people usually are . And it ...
... mind . And as this House is chosen by the free and unbiased voice of the people in general , if this choice were so often renewed , we might expect that this House would be as wavering and as unsteady as the people usually are . And it ...
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... mind so ardent and aspiring , so well prepared to profit by mingling in such society , so gifted with the talent of transferring to itself the kindred excellence of other minds , the company of such men must have acted with ...
... mind so ardent and aspiring , so well prepared to profit by mingling in such society , so gifted with the talent of transferring to itself the kindred excellence of other minds , the company of such men must have acted with ...
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... mind so agitated and diseased that all access to him was denied for many months . It was during this period that Charles Townsend , in one of his rash and boastful moods , committed himself to Mr. Grenville in favor of taxing the ...
... mind so agitated and diseased that all access to him was denied for many months . It was during this period that Charles Townsend , in one of his rash and boastful moods , committed himself to Mr. Grenville in favor of taxing the ...
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Page 370 - 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.
Page 375 - 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.
Page 287 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Page 133 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! 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 375 - Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures each in their appointed place.
Page 274 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 372 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Page 274 - ... them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward.
Page 267 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented, from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Page 271 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.