The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language; Arranged Under Three Distinct Heads of Popular, Parliamentary, and Judicial Oratory: with Historical Illustrations: to which is Prefixed, an Introduction to the Study and Practice of Eloquence, Band 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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... England ; I promise you your odious secret will not be better kept than that of the wretched Mrs. Maffey . There is not a bawdy - house chronicle in London , in which the epitaph which you have written even on yourselves will not be ...
... England ; I promise you your odious secret will not be better kept than that of the wretched Mrs. Maffey . There is not a bawdy - house chronicle in London , in which the epitaph which you have written even on yourselves will not be ...
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... England . - Every sentence con- tained in it , if the interpretation of words is to be settled , not according to fancy , but by the common rules of lan- guage , is to be found in the brightest pages of English literature , and in the ...
... England . - Every sentence con- tained in it , if the interpretation of words is to be settled , not according to fancy , but by the common rules of lan- guage , is to be found in the brightest pages of English literature , and in the ...
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... friend associates , and with whom he acts , affected at least to hold the voice of the people of England to be the rule and guide of parliament ; and the gentleman in the dialogue knowing that the uni- 5 and 68 FORENSIC ELOQUENCE .
... friend associates , and with whom he acts , affected at least to hold the voice of the people of England to be the rule and guide of parliament ; and the gentleman in the dialogue knowing that the uni- 5 and 68 FORENSIC ELOQUENCE .
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... England that the present king ought in fact to be expelled ; and not speculatively , that under such circumstances it would be lawful to expel a king . " Gentlemen , if I am well founded in thus asserting , that neither in law nor in ...
... England that the present king ought in fact to be expelled ; and not speculatively , that under such circumstances it would be lawful to expel a king . " Gentlemen , if I am well founded in thus asserting , that neither in law nor in ...
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... the judge both on the evidence and the law . ge- " Say the contrary who will , I assert this to be the ruine , unrepealed constitution of England ; and there- fore that fare if the learned judge shall tell you that 88 FORENSIC ELOQUENCE .
... the judge both on the evidence and the law . ge- " Say the contrary who will , I assert this to be the ruine , unrepealed constitution of England ; and there- fore that fare if the learned judge shall tell you that 88 FORENSIC ELOQUENCE .
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Seite 491 - That, on every such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of Guilty or Not Guilty upon the whole Matter put in issue upon such indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed, by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information...
Seite 226 - I put it to your oaths ; do you think that a blessing of that kind, that a victory obtained by justice over bigotry and oppression, should have a stigma cast upon it by an ignominious sentence upon men bold and honest enough to propose that measure ? to propose the redeeming of religion from the abuses of the church, the reclaiming of three millions of men from bondage, and giving liberty to all who had a right to demand it — giving, I say, in the so much censured words of this paper, giving
Seite 491 - ... upon the whole matter in issue : " BE IT THEREFORE DECLARED AND ENACTED, that, On every Such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information...
Seite 1 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 285 - Scriptures themselves, might be distorted into libels ; by forsaking the general context, and hanging a meaning upon selected parts: — thus, as in the text put by Algernon Sidney, " The " fool has said in his heart, There is no God...
Seite 236 - ... venal sheriffs returned packed juries to carry into effect those fatal conspiracies of the few against the many, when the devoted benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted, and floated to the surface of the polluted stream, where they were...
Seite 246 - When your sentence shall have sent him forth to that stage which guilt alone can render infamous, let me tell you, he will not be like a little statue upon a mighty pedestal...
Seite 237 - ... with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires — crowned, as she is, with the spoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep and...
Seite 308 - ... alloys which belong to them, or live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its wanderings are sanctioned by its...
Seite 308 - From minds thus subdued by the terrors of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason, nor any masterly compositions on the general nature of government, by the help of which the great commonwealths of mankind have founded their establishments ; much less any...