Orations of British Orators, Including Biographical and Critical Sketches with a Special Introduction, Band 23Colonial Press, 1900 |
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... force and intensity of purpose that give them a controlling influence upon the mind while Lord Digby's speech against Strafford , and the latter's wonderful reply , show that the art of eloquence was hav- ing a new birth after the sleep ...
... force and intensity of purpose that give them a controlling influence upon the mind while Lord Digby's speech against Strafford , and the latter's wonderful reply , show that the art of eloquence was hav- ing a new birth after the sleep ...
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... forces of the French and Scotch Catholics , he suffered imprisonment during nearly two years and his health was much im- paired by the harsh treatment to which he was subjected . On his re- lease in 1548 he went to London and was ...
... forces of the French and Scotch Catholics , he suffered imprisonment during nearly two years and his health was much im- paired by the harsh treatment to which he was subjected . On his re- lease in 1548 he went to London and was ...
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... forces against the Scotch . It was at this juncture that Parliament began the course of action which terminated in his destruction . A bill of attainder was brought in against the earl , containing twenty - eight counts . These ...
... forces against the Scotch . It was at this juncture that Parliament began the course of action which terminated in his destruction . A bill of attainder was brought in against the earl , containing twenty - eight counts . These ...
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... force . He reverts to the same topic in his peroration , assuring them , with the deepest earnestness and solemnity ( and , as the event showed , with perfect truth ) , that if they gave him up , they must expect to perish with him in ...
... force . He reverts to the same topic in his peroration , assuring them , with the deepest earnestness and solemnity ( and , as the event showed , with perfect truth ) , that if they gave him up , they must expect to perish with him in ...
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... forces , he had some in Ireland that might serve to reduce this kingdom , " thus counselling to His Majesty to put down Parliament , and subvert the fundamental laws of the kingdom by force and arms . To this the earl replied , ( 1 ...
... forces , he had some in Ireland that might serve to reduce this kingdom , " thus counselling to His Majesty to put down Parliament , and subvert the fundamental laws of the kingdom by force and arms . To this the earl replied , ( 1 ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 188 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth): it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Seite 193 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Seite 286 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Seite 253 - ... individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice so this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Seite 115 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Seite 101 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Seite 246 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Seite 193 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed ; and make you a new heart and a new spirit : for why will ye die, 0 house of Israel ? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God : wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Seite 116 - If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven ; whereof I Paul am made a minister...
Seite 193 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.