Orations of British Orators: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches, Volumen 1Colonial Press, 1899 - 453 páginas |
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... characters of virtue and discretion , which nature hath stamped upon us , than to put this necessity of divination upon a man , and to accuse him of a breach of law before it is a law at all ! If a waterman upon the Thames split his ...
... characters of virtue and discretion , which nature hath stamped upon us , than to put this necessity of divination upon a man , and to accuse him of a breach of law before it is a law at all ! If a waterman upon the Thames split his ...
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... character , than for elegance of language or gracefulness of delivery . His appearance and dress , too , were plain and unprepossessing . Nevertheless he acquired considerable influence even in Parliament ; and in 1642 , when it was ...
... character , than for elegance of language or gracefulness of delivery . His appearance and dress , too , were plain and unprepossessing . Nevertheless he acquired considerable influence even in Parliament ; and in 1642 , when it was ...
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... character of a husband's duty : " Thou art to be a father and a mother to her , and a brother , " and great reason , unless the state of marriage should be no better than the condition of an orphan . For she that is bound to leave ...
... character of a husband's duty : " Thou art to be a father and a mother to her , and a brother , " and great reason , unless the state of marriage should be no better than the condition of an orphan . For she that is bound to leave ...
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... character , or in his duty ; he is not commanded to rule , nor instructed how , nor bidden to exact obedience , or to defend his privilege ; all his duty is signified by love , " by nourishing and cherishing , " by being joined with her ...
... character , or in his duty ; he is not commanded to rule , nor instructed how , nor bidden to exact obedience , or to defend his privilege ; all his duty is signified by love , " by nourishing and cherishing , " by being joined with her ...
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... characters of thy manners . Paris was a man of pleasure , and Helena was an adulteress , and she added covetousness on her own account . But Ulysses was a prudent man , and a wary counsellor , sober and severe ; and he efformed his wife ...
... characters of thy manners . Paris was a man of pleasure , and Helena was an adulteress , and she added covetousness on her own account . But Ulysses was a prudent man , and a wary counsellor , sober and severe ; and he efformed his wife ...
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Página 300 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth): it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Página 283 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Página 305 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Página 365 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Página 193 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Página 357 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Página 352 - I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but, that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Página 139 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Página 359 - 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...
Página 352 - ... nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see " how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something...