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 páginas |
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... mean the expedition to Rhé , of which there is yet so sad a memory in all men ? What design for us , or advantage to ... means , as the experi- ence of that time doth tell us , we were not only free from those fears that now possess and ...
... mean the expedition to Rhé , of which there is yet so sad a memory in all men ? What design for us , or advantage to ... means , as the experi- ence of that time doth tell us , we were not only free from those fears that now possess and ...
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... means we shall be debarred from speaking - the principal joy and comfort of life - with wise and good men , to become wiser and better ourselves . If these things be strained to take away life , and honor , and all that is desirable ...
... means we shall be debarred from speaking - the principal joy and comfort of life - with wise and good men , to become wiser and better ourselves . If these things be strained to take away life , and honor , and all that is desirable ...
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... means an ex- ecution of such as are already in being . " They are , from their very nature , ex post facto laws . They proceed on the principle that while judicial courts are to be governed by the strict letter of the law , as ...
... means an ex- ecution of such as are already in being . " They are , from their very nature , ex post facto laws . They proceed on the principle that while judicial courts are to be governed by the strict letter of the law , as ...
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... means in- crease by concord . I fear not these Articles , though they were ten times worse than they are , if we ... mean and contemptible terms ! Where were the great men of the noble families - the Stewarts , Hamiltons , Grahams ...
... means in- crease by concord . I fear not these Articles , though they were ten times worse than they are , if we ... mean and contemptible terms ! Where were the great men of the noble families - the Stewarts , Hamiltons , Grahams ...
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... mean fortune , raised to be chief minister of state by the concurrence of many whimsical events ; afraid or unwilling ... means , neglected or misunderstood ; her honor and credit lost ; her trade insulted ; her merchants plundered ; and ...
... mean fortune , raised to be chief minister of state by the concurrence of many whimsical events ; afraid or unwilling ... means , neglected or misunderstood ; her honor and credit lost ; her trade insulted ; her merchants plundered ; and ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...