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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... present day would unite with Mr. Hallam in justifying the measure ) , no one can doubt that the provisions of the Septennial Act , in respect to subsequent Parliaments , were strictly legal . This Act has now been in operation eighteen ...
... present day would unite with Mr. Hallam in justifying the measure ) , no one can doubt that the provisions of the Septennial Act , in respect to subsequent Parliaments , were strictly legal . This Act has now been in operation eighteen ...
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... present government had no share ? Perhaps some who might wish well to the present estab- lishment , did co - operate ; nay , I do not know but they were the first movers of that spirit ; but it can not be supposed that the spirit then ...
... present government had no share ? Perhaps some who might wish well to the present estab- lishment , did co - operate ; nay , I do not know but they were the first movers of that spirit ; but it can not be supposed that the spirit then ...
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... present , any occasion for showing that the Favorite I am now complaining of has bee guilty of heinous crimes , yet I will say that there is a very general suspicion against him ; that this suspicion is justified by the present ...
... present , any occasion for showing that the Favorite I am now complaining of has bee guilty of heinous crimes , yet I will say that there is a very general suspicion against him ; that this suspicion is justified by the present ...
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... present ministers . For though it is undoubtedly false that this tax will lessen the consumption of spirits , it is certainly true that it will produce a very large revenue - a revenue that will not fail but with the people from whose ...
... present ministers . For though it is undoubtedly false that this tax will lessen the consumption of spirits , it is certainly true that it will produce a very large revenue - a revenue that will not fail but with the people from whose ...
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... present the retailer expects to be paid for the danger which he incurs by an unlawful trade , and will not trust his reputation or his purse to the mer- cy of his customer without a profit proportioned to the hazard ; but , when once ...
... present the retailer expects to be paid for the danger which he incurs by an unlawful trade , and will not trust his reputation or his purse to the mer- cy of his customer without a profit proportioned to the hazard ; but , when once ...
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108 | |
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889 | |
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