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, 1852 - 947 páginas |
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... suppose him arrived ing nothing but that of enriching and aggrand- to that degree of insolence and arrogance , as to izing himself and his favorites ; in foreign affairs , domineer over all the men of ancient families , trusting none ...
... suppose him arrived ing nothing but that of enriching and aggrand- to that degree of insolence and arrogance , as to izing himself and his favorites ; in foreign affairs , domineer over all the men of ancient families , trusting none ...
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... suppose this leader not really liked by any , even of those who so blindly follow him , and hated by all the rest of mankind . We will suppose this anti - minister to be in a country where he really ought not to be , and where he could ...
... suppose this leader not really liked by any , even of those who so blindly follow him , and hated by all the rest of mankind . We will suppose this anti - minister to be in a country where he really ought not to be , and where he could ...
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... suppose , of influenc- ing us , but surely by those who had forgotten our independence , or resigned their own . It is not only the right , but the duty of either House , This man , who must be remembered by many of your Lordships , was ...
... suppose , of influenc- ing us , but surely by those who had forgotten our independence , or resigned their own . It is not only the right , but the duty of either House , This man , who must be remembered by many of your Lordships , was ...
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... suppose that any thing in a royal mind can trans- I have been led to say thus much of his Royal cend the pleasure of gratifying the earnest wishes Highness's character , because it is the consider- of a loyal people , it can only be the ...
... suppose that any thing in a royal mind can trans- I have been led to say thus much of his Royal cend the pleasure of gratifying the earnest wishes Highness's character , because it is the consider- of a loyal people , it can only be the ...
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... suppose this should both increase the number of your seamen , and render them more willing to serve you , it will render them incapable . It is a common observation , that when a man becomes a slave , he loses half his virtue . What ...
... suppose this should both increase the number of your seamen , and render them more willing to serve you , it will render them incapable . It is a common observation , that when a man becomes a slave , he loses half his virtue . What ...
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Página 366 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 366 - 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.
Página 106 - America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 274 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Página 270 - ... death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life!
Página 369 - ... 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.
Página 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.
Página 368 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Página 290 - 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. But let it...
Página 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...