Orations of British Orators: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches, Band 2Colonial Press, 1900 |
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... important question . In doing so , I agree with my honorable friend [ Mr. Canning ] that it would , in any case , be impossible to separate the present discussion from the former rages offered to their ministers , of which the example 3.
... important question . In doing so , I agree with my honorable friend [ Mr. Canning ] that it would , in any case , be impossible to separate the present discussion from the former rages offered to their ministers , of which the example 3.
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... importance ( though it was important both in a maritime and commercial view ) as on account of the general principle on which it was founded . On the same ar- bitrary notion they soon afterward discovered that sacred law of nature which ...
... importance ( though it was important both in a maritime and commercial view ) as on account of the general principle on which it was founded . On the same ar- bitrary notion they soon afterward discovered that sacred law of nature which ...
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... In reviewing the issue of this negotiation , it is important to observe that France , who began by abjuring a love of con- quest , was desired to give up nothing of her own , not even to give up all that she had conquered ; that it 22 PITT.
... In reviewing the issue of this negotiation , it is important to observe that France , who began by abjuring a love of con- quest , was desired to give up nothing of her own , not even to give up all that she had conquered ; that it 22 PITT.
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... importance , the instance will only serve the more to illustrate and confirm the proposition which I have maintained . The all - searching eye of the French Revolu- tion looks to every part of Europe , and every quarter of the world ...
... importance , the instance will only serve the more to illustrate and confirm the proposition which I have maintained . The all - searching eye of the French Revolu- tion looks to every part of Europe , and every quarter of the world ...
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... important lesson : " It is easy to conceive why peace was not concluded before the establishment of the constitutional government . The only government which then existed described itself as revolution- ary ; it was , in fact , only the ...
... important lesson : " It is easy to conceive why peace was not concluded before the establishment of the constitutional government . The only government which then existed described itself as revolution- ary ; it was , in fact , only the ...
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Seite 507 - For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not ; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Seite 230 - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength...
Seite 313 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Seite 60 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Seite 477 - THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast? That sacred hour can I forget, Can I forget the hallowed grove...
Seite 109 - What have I to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me according to law?
Seite 75 - February, 1810, being founded on circumstances of a temporary nature, which have happily ceased to exist, the said Treaty is hereby declared to be void in all its parts, and of no effect ; without prejudice, however, to the ancient Treaties of Alliance, Friendship and Guarantee, which have so long and so happily subsisted between the two Crowns, and which are hereby renewed by the High Contracting Parties, and acknowledged to be of full force and effect.
Seite 115 - Be yet patient! I have but a few words more to say. I am going to my cold and silent grave: my lamp of life is nearly extinguished: my race is run: the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom!
Seite 112 - No; I am no emissary; and my ambition was to hold a place among the deliverers of my country, not in power nor in profit, but in the glory of the achievement.
Seite 451 - THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.