The Speeches of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Sketch of His Life, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1842 - 548 pages |
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... matter ; since after the recollection of the dreadful tumults which ravaged and disgraced the metropolis in the month of June last , he should have naturally conceived that some gentleman , of more experience and more weight than ...
... matter ; since after the recollection of the dreadful tumults which ravaged and disgraced the metropolis in the month of June last , he should have naturally conceived that some gentleman , of more experience and more weight than ...
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... matter pretty well known , that orders of a nature not dissimilar to those of June last , were given to the military on the acquittal of Lord George Gordon . Orderly serjeants were attending in Westminster Hall ; -the courts of Justice ...
... matter pretty well known , that orders of a nature not dissimilar to those of June last , were given to the military on the acquittal of Lord George Gordon . Orderly serjeants were attending in Westminster Hall ; -the courts of Justice ...
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... matter , ” he observed , " which would admit of various acceptations ; and if a discretion was given to government to interpret that charge , it might be applied to every riotous act whatever . ' To this MR . SHERIDAN replied , the ...
... matter , ” he observed , " which would admit of various acceptations ; and if a discretion was given to government to interpret that charge , it might be applied to every riotous act whatever . ' To this MR . SHERIDAN replied , the ...
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... matter . He finally proposed an amendment which would give his Majesty the assurance of their loyalty and zeal ; and would promise , in a more effectual way , to support the essential rights and permanent interests of his empire . Mr ...
... matter . He finally proposed an amendment which would give his Majesty the assurance of their loyalty and zeal ; and would promise , in a more effectual way , to support the essential rights and permanent interests of his empire . Mr ...
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... matter . It was not , however , his intention to trouble the house with opposing it then ; he meant to pursue a very fair method in laying before the noble lord at the head of the treasury , his objections in writing , with a real and ...
... matter . It was not , however , his intention to trouble the house with opposing it then ; he meant to pursue a very fair method in laying before the noble lord at the head of the treasury , his objections in writing , with a real and ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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;
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.