Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... present speech , displays a very minute knowledge of the subject , and some- times eloquence of the highest order . He draws an exact and full length picture of the genius and tendency of the French revolution , and shows from the ...
... present speech , displays a very minute knowledge of the subject , and some- times eloquence of the highest order . He draws an exact and full length picture of the genius and tendency of the French revolution , and shows from the ...
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... present conjuncture of our affairs afforded us a free option between war and peace ; if the neces- sity which originally compelled us to engage in the present contest had ceased , and the question for our deliberation on this day were ...
... present conjuncture of our affairs afforded us a free option between war and peace ; if the neces- sity which originally compelled us to engage in the present contest had ceased , and the question for our deliberation on this day were ...
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... present war . We cannot have forgotten , that before the French had declared war against us , we had seen in their conduct views of aggrandizement , projects of ambition , and principles of fixed hostility against all established ...
... present war . We cannot have forgotten , that before the French had declared war against us , we had seen in their conduct views of aggrandizement , projects of ambition , and principles of fixed hostility against all established ...
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... present contest , and we pledged ourselves , that our zeal and exertions should be proportioned to the importance of the conjunc- ture , and to the magnitude and value of the objects for which we had to contend . " Impressions conceiv ...
... present contest , and we pledged ourselves , that our zeal and exertions should be proportioned to the importance of the conjunc- ture , and to the magnitude and value of the objects for which we had to contend . " Impressions conceiv ...
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... present war , I shall conclude this part of the argument , conceiving that I have shown to the house , that the mischievous spirit of the decree of the 19th of November , denied by the executive council , has been avowed , acknow ...
... present war , I shall conclude this part of the argument , conceiving that I have shown to the house , that the mischievous spirit of the decree of the 19th of November , denied by the executive council , has been avowed , acknow ...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 4 Nathaniel Chapman Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1807 |
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Seite 460 - With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens.
Seite 460 - And all the rule, one empire ; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance ; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
Seite 423 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government; it is the liberty, Lords and Commons...
Seite 423 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Seite 445 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Seite 383 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Seite 458 - Christians, I cannot help lamenting that Newton had not lived to this day, to have had his shallowness filled up with this new flood of light. But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian ! Newton...
Seite 460 - This having learned, thou hast attained 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...