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, and Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper & brothers, 1870 - 947 páginas |
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... defense ; for if we have these ene- mies at home , how can we strive with those that are abroad ? If we be free from these , no oth- er can impeach us . Our ancient English virtue ( like the old Spartan valor ) , cleared from these ...
... defense ; for if we have these ene- mies at home , how can we strive with those that are abroad ? If we be free from these , no oth- er can impeach us . Our ancient English virtue ( like the old Spartan valor ) , cleared from these ...
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... defense . In addition to this , the time had not yet arrived when treason against the state , as distinguished from ... defenses in a speech of which the report given below is only an imperfect outline . It enables us , however , to form ...
... defense . In addition to this , the time had not yet arrived when treason against the state , as distinguished from ... defenses in a speech of which the report given below is only an imperfect outline . It enables us , however , to form ...
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... defense . * Strafford had no chance of acquittal except by inducing the Lords , from a regard to their dignity and safety , to rise above the influence of the Com- mons as his prosecutors , and of the populace who surrounded Westminster ...
... defense . * Strafford had no chance of acquittal except by inducing the Lords , from a regard to their dignity and safety , to rise above the influence of the Com- mons as his prosecutors , and of the populace who surrounded Westminster ...
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... defense of the Commonwealth against my arbitrary laws . Give me leave to say it , I speak in defense of the Commonwealth against their arbitrary treason ! It is now full two hundred and forty years since any man was touched for this ...
... defense of the Commonwealth against my arbitrary laws . Give me leave to say it , I speak in defense of the Commonwealth against their arbitrary treason ! It is now full two hundred and forty years since any man was touched for this ...
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... defense . Had I served a weak or wicked master , and implicitly obeyed his dic- tates , obedience to his commands must have been my only justification . But as it has been my good fortune to serve a master who wants no bad ministers ...
... defense . Had I served a weak or wicked master , and implicitly obeyed his dic- tates , obedience to his commands must have been my only justification . But as it has been my good fortune to serve a master who wants no bad ministers ...
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