William Pitt. Charles James Fox. Sir James Mackintosh. Lord ErskineCharles Kendall Adams Putnam, 1884 |
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... nature , and had placed the responsibility where we now know it belonged - upon George III . The consequence had been that the enraged king would not listen to the promotion of Fox , though by constitutional usage he was clearly ...
... nature , and had placed the responsibility where we now know it belonged - upon George III . The consequence had been that the enraged king would not listen to the promotion of Fox , though by constitutional usage he was clearly ...
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... nature was capable . He declared on the floor of the House that " to talk of the perma- nency of such an administration would be only laughing at and insulting them " ; and he al- luded to " the youth of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
... nature was capable . He declared on the floor of the House that " to talk of the perma- nency of such an administration would be only laughing at and insulting them " ; and he al- luded to " the youth of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
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... nature , the causes , and the magnitude of the danger against which we have to guard , in order to judge of the security which we ought to accept . I say , then , that before any man can concur in opinion with that learned gentleman ...
... nature , the causes , and the magnitude of the danger against which we have to guard , in order to judge of the security which we ought to accept . I say , then , that before any man can concur in opinion with that learned gentleman ...
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Charles Kendall Adams. undervaluing its extent nor mistaking its nature , nevertheless thinks , from his view of the pres- ent pressure on the country , from his view of its situation and its prospects , compared with the situation and ...
Charles Kendall Adams. undervaluing its extent nor mistaking its nature , nevertheless thinks , from his view of the pres- ent pressure on the country , from his view of its situation and its prospects , compared with the situation and ...
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... 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 made the Rhine and the Alps the legitimate boundaries of France , and 30 WILLIAM PITT .
... 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 made the Rhine and the Alps the legitimate boundaries of France , and 30 WILLIAM PITT .
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Seite 170 - Why is that man expiring ? Why is that other writhing with agony? What means this implacable fury?" The answer must be: "You are quite wrong, sir ; you deceive yourself — they are not fighting — do not disturb them — they are merely pausing! This man is not expiring with agony — that man is not dead — he is only pausing...
Seite 5 - he was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.
Seite 289 - 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 257 - ... 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 289 - 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 288 - Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Seite 9 - If, however, the baneful alliance is not already formed, if this ill-omened marriage is not already solemnized, I know a just and lawful impediment, and in the name of the public safety I here forbid the Banns...
Seite 254 - Better, ten thousand times better, would it be that every press in the world were burnt, that the very use of letters were abolished, that we were returned to the honest ignorance of the rudest times, than that the results of civilisation should be made subservient to the purposes of barbarism, than that literature should...
Seite 289 - 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 called 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.