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Pitt had been asked to speak on the question ; but , although he had hesitated in
giving his answer , he had determined not to participate in the debate . His
answer , however , was misunderstood , and therefore at the close of a speech by
...
Pitt had been asked to speak on the question ; but , although he had hesitated in
giving his answer , he had determined not to participate in the debate . His
answer , however , was misunderstood , and therefore at the close of a speech by
...
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After this followed that scene which no man can even now speak of without horror
, or think of without indignation ; that murder and regicide from which I was sorry
to hear the learned gentleman date the beginning of the legal government of ...
After this followed that scene which no man can even now speak of without horror
, or think of without indignation ; that murder and regicide from which I was sorry
to hear the learned gentleman date the beginning of the legal government of ...
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I speak of the decree of the 15th of December , 1792. This decree , more even
than all the previous transactions , amounted to a universal declaration of war
against all thrones , and against all civilized governments . It said , wherever the ...
I speak of the decree of the 15th of December , 1792. This decree , more even
than all the previous transactions , amounted to a universal declaration of war
against all thrones , and against all civilized governments . It said , wherever the ...
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... that there was now one man , with no rival to thwart his measures , no
colleague to divide his powers , no council to control his operations , no liberty of
speaking or writing , no expression of public opinion to check or influence his
conduct ...
... that there was now one man , with no rival to thwart his measures , no
colleague to divide his powers , no council to control his operations , no liberty of
speaking or writing , no expression of public opinion to check or influence his
conduct ...
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Seite 178 - France, in a few years, described the whole circle of human society. All this was in the order of nature— when every principle of authority and civil discipline, when every principle which enables some men to command and disposes others to obey was extirpated from the mind by atrocious theories, and still more atrocious examples; when every old institution was trampled down with contumely, and every new institution covered in its cradle with blood ; when the principle of property itself, the sheet-anchor...
Seite 249 - Angel last replied. This having learn'd, thou hast attain'd the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all the ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature's works, Or works of God in Heaven, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world...
Seite 217 - ... satirist on his tyranny to be convicted and punished as a libeller ; and in this court, almost in sight of the scaffold streaming with the blood...
Seite 249 - A virgin is his mother, but his sire The power of the Most High : he shall ascend The throne hereditary, and bound his reign With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens.
Seite 248 - Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Seite 155 - They have been swallowed up by that fearful convulsion, which has shaken the uttermost corners of the earth. They are destroyed and gone for ever. One asylum of free discussion is still inviolate. There is still one spot in Europe where man can freely exercise his reason on the most important concerns of society, where he can boldly publish his judgment on the acts of the proudest and most powerful tyrants.
Seite 242 - ... only refuge and consolation amidst the distresses and afflictions of the world. The poor and humble, whom it affects to pity, may be stabbed to the heart by it. They have more occasion for firm hopes beyond the grave than the rich and prosperous who have other comforts to render life delightful.
Seite 118 - The right honorable gentleman might here accuse himself, indeed, of reserve; but it unfortunately happened, that at the time the point was too clear on which side the aggression lay. Prussia was too sensible that the war could not entitle her to make the demand, and that it was not a case within the scope of the defensive treaty. This is evidence worth a volume of subsequent reasoning; for if, at the time when all the facts were present to their minds, they could not take advantage of existing treaties,...
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | William Pitt. Charles James Fox. Sir James Mackintosh. Lord Erskine Band 2 von Representative British Orations, Charles Kendall Adams |
| Herausgeber | Charles Kendall Adams |
| Verlag | Putnam, 1884 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 1. Febr. 2007 |
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