The Speeches of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Sketch of His Life, Band 1H.G. Bohn, 1842 - 548 Seiten |
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... attended at the installation of Lord Grenville as chancellor of Oxford ; and it was expected that he would have been one of those who obtained , on that occasion , honorary de- grees . Two masters , however , objected to his nomination ...
... attended at the installation of Lord Grenville as chancellor of Oxford ; and it was expected that he would have been one of those who obtained , on that occasion , honorary de- grees . Two masters , however , objected to his nomination ...
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... attending in Westminster Hall ; -the courts of Justice were beset with soldiers ; -and the guards were all in readiness to act in case of necessity . He did not assert this as an imputation upon government ; he did not say that they ...
... attending in Westminster Hall ; -the courts of Justice were beset with soldiers ; -and the guards were all in readiness to act in case of necessity . He did not assert this as an imputation upon government ; he did not say that they ...
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... attend to keep the peace . The forty thousand people obeyed the invitation ; but the justices and the constables did not . Though it could hardly be believed that so many people could assemble , however pious in their intentions ...
... attend to keep the peace . The forty thousand people obeyed the invitation ; but the justices and the constables did not . Though it could hardly be believed that so many people could assemble , however pious in their intentions ...
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... attended to the words of his motion ; for he had himself adverted to the latitude which might be taken in interpreting the exception ; and therefore , instead of stating the order for the military even in such cases to be legal , had ...
... attended to the words of his motion ; for he had himself adverted to the latitude which might be taken in interpreting the exception ; and therefore , instead of stating the order for the military even in such cases to be legal , had ...
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... attended to . Mr. Sheridan then adverted to the Lord Advocate's attack on the supposed dangerous principles of his honourable friend ( Mr. Fox ) sup- posing he were minister . He ridiculed the learned lord's appre- hensions , that his ...
... attended to . Mr. Sheridan then adverted to the Lord Advocate's attack on the supposed dangerous principles of his honourable friend ( Mr. Fox ) sup- posing he were minister . He ridiculed the learned lord's appre- hensions , that his ...
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Seite 66 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end...
Seite 65 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Seite 65 - House; the continuance of the present ministers in trusts of the highest importance and responsibility, is contrary to constitutional principles, and injurious to the interests of his Majesty and his people.
Seite 222 - All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun;
Seite 235 - Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing unmixed; all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing . great but his crimes; and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster.
Seite 433 - Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm...
Seite vi - I will say more : flattered and encouraged by the right hon. gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption — to attempt an improvement on one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy, in the
Seite 418 - If I could not prove, my lords, that those acts of Mr. Middleton were in reality the acts of Mr. Hastings, I should not trouble your lordships by combating them ; but as this part of his criminality can be incontestably ascertained, I appeal to the assembled legislators of this realm to say whether these acts were justifiable...
Seite 235 - ... that concerned his employers. He remembered to have heard an honourable and learned gentleman (Mr. Dundas) remark, that there was something in the first frame and constitution of the company, which extended the sordid principles of their origin over all their successive operations ; connecting with their civil policy, and even with their boldest achievements, the meanness of a pedlar, and the profligacy of pirates.
Seite 306 - ... it in toto, in point of fact as well as law. The fact not only never could have happened legally, but nerrr did happen in any way whatsoever ; and had, from the beginning, been a base and malicious falsehood.