The World's Famous Orations, Volumen 6William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1906 |
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... passing sentence , un- less I could be sure that there were no rights which in their exercise under certain circum- stances , were not the most odious of all wrongs , and the most vexatious of all injustice . Sir , these considerations ...
... passing sentence , un- less I could be sure that there were no rights which in their exercise under certain circum- stances , were not the most odious of all wrongs , and the most vexatious of all injustice . Sir , these considerations ...
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... passed , and which , for the time , have been severe and numerous ? What advances have we made toward our object by the sending of a force which , by land and sea , is no contemptible strength ? Has the disorder abated ? Nothing less ...
... passed , and which , for the time , have been severe and numerous ? What advances have we made toward our object by the sending of a force which , by land and sea , is no contemptible strength ? Has the disorder abated ? Nothing less ...
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... . " In May , 1782 , the Imperial Parliament passed the act declaring the Irish Parliament independent . and set apart for the discharge of so important a 59 GRATTAN-I A Plea for Irish Legislative Inde- pendence (1780)
... . " In May , 1782 , the Imperial Parliament passed the act declaring the Irish Parliament independent . and set apart for the discharge of so important a 59 GRATTAN-I A Plea for Irish Legislative Inde- pendence (1780)
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... passing by the tribunals of justice and the high court of Parliament ; neither imagine that , by any formation of apol- ogy , you can palliate such a commission to your hearts , still less to your children , who will sting you with ...
... passing by the tribunals of justice and the high court of Parliament ; neither imagine that , by any formation of apol- ogy , you can palliate such a commission to your hearts , still less to your children , who will sting you with ...
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... passing shade of guilt , and because he has only given the bold outline of cruelty , he is therefore to be acquitted . It is laid down by the law of Eng- land , that law which is the perfection of reason , that a person ordering an act ...
... passing shade of guilt , and because he has only given the bold outline of cruelty , he is therefore to be acquitted . It is laid down by the law of Eng- land , that law which is the perfection of reason , that a person ordering an act ...
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Página 37 - 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 23 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Página 52 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Página 16 - Sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Página 55 - Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.
Página 39 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be the directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Página 22 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Página 54 - ... gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Página 146 - Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence...
Página 24 - Far from it. Far from deciding on a sudden or partial view, I would patiently go round and round the subject, and survey it minutely in every possible aspect. Sir, if I were capable of engaging you to an equal attention, I would state that, as far as I am capable of discerning, there are but three ways of proceeding relative to this stubborn spirit which prevails in your colonies and disturbs your government. These are, to change that spirit, as inconvenient, by removing the causes ; ' to prosecute...