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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... ground for imputations on his character . But he almost instantly changed the whole tenor of his political life . He abandoned his former principles ; he joined the Court party ; and did more , as we learn from Clarendon , to ruin ...
... ground for imputations on his character . But he almost instantly changed the whole tenor of his political life . He abandoned his former principles ; he joined the Court party ; and did more , as we learn from Clarendon , to ruin ...
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... ground of difference in me now from what I was formerly . The truth of it is , sir , the same ground whereupon I with the rest of the few to whom you first committed the consideration of my Lord Strafford , brought down our opinion that ...
... ground of difference in me now from what I was formerly . The truth of it is , sir , the same ground whereupon I with the rest of the few to whom you first committed the consideration of my Lord Strafford , brought down our opinion that ...
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... ground that the nation had just emerged from a dangerous rebellion , and that the public mind was still in so agitated a state , as to render the exciting scenes of a general election hazardous to the public safety . Whatever may be ...
... ground that the nation had just emerged from a dangerous rebellion , and that the public mind was still in so agitated a state , as to render the exciting scenes of a general election hazardous to the public safety . Whatever may be ...
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... ground for a war with Spain ; and he ought to have held to the truth on that point , even at the sacrifice of his office . II . I now come , sir , to the second head , the conduct of domestic affairs . And here a most heinous charge is ...
... ground for a war with Spain ; and he ought to have held to the truth on that point , even at the sacrifice of his office . II . I now come , sir , to the second head , the conduct of domestic affairs . And here a most heinous charge is ...
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... ground enough for establishing such inquiry , and for carrying it on with the utmost strictness and vigor . The ... ground for an in- son , the general voice of the people of England ought always to be regarded as a sufficient ground for ...
... ground enough for establishing such inquiry , and for carrying it on with the utmost strictness and vigor . The ... ground for an in- son , the general voice of the people of England ought always to be regarded as a sufficient ground for ...
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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...