Select Parliamentary Speeches of R.B. SheridanBaudry, 1828 - 285 pages |
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Page 114
... believed , it would have been for both countries , and for human nature itself , if such had been the opinion of govern- ment in this country ; and highly as he valued his right honorable friend , unparalleled as he thought his talents ...
... believed , it would have been for both countries , and for human nature itself , if such had been the opinion of govern- ment in this country ; and highly as he valued his right honorable friend , unparalleled as he thought his talents ...
Page 115
... believed it was not easy to calcu- late ; but the withholding all these from that na- tion in our hollow neutrality , he was sure , was an error which would be for ever to be lament- ed . He concluded , with a reference to Lord ...
... believed it was not easy to calcu- late ; but the withholding all these from that na- tion in our hollow neutrality , he was sure , was an error which would be for ever to be lament- ed . He concluded , with a reference to Lord ...
Page 118
... believed had at least exhausted all power of splitting or di- viding farther . But what suggested to him it must be a stratagem of his right honorable friend ? Was he a man prone to stratagems ? At any other time he would trust to his ...
... believed had at least exhausted all power of splitting or di- viding farther . But what suggested to him it must be a stratagem of his right honorable friend ? Was he a man prone to stratagems ? At any other time he would trust to his ...
Page 119
... believed he had never seen touched , revised , or printed , a single line he had spoken in parliament in his life , or caused it to be done for him . If either friends or judi- cious editors were the more attentive to the task , he ...
... believed he had never seen touched , revised , or printed , a single line he had spoken in parliament in his life , or caused it to be done for him . If either friends or judi- cious editors were the more attentive to the task , he ...
Page 136
... believed the house had , of thinking that these reports were ill founded to remove all doubt , however , upon that subject , and to obtain complete informa- tion , were the objects of his motion . Parliament met early in December last ...
... believed the house had , of thinking that these reports were ill founded to remove all doubt , however , upon that subject , and to obtain complete informa- tion , were the objects of his motion . Parliament met early in December last ...
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Page 65 - No, my lords, justice is not this halt and miserable object; it is not the ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod ; it is not the portentous phantom of despair ; it is not like any fabled monster, formed in the eclipse of reason, and found in some unhallowed grove of superstitious darkness, and political dismay ! No, my lords.
Page 66 - ... and save ; majestic from its mercy ; venerable from its utility ; uplifted, without pride ; firm, without obduracy ; beneficent in each preference ; lovely, though in her frown...
Page 270 - What ! in such an hour as this, at a moment pregnant with the national fate, when, pressing as the exigency may be, the hard task of squeezing the money from the pockets of an impoverished people, from the toil, the drudgery of the shivering poor, must make the most practised collector's heart ache...
Page 58 - Impey on the other, the great figure of the piece, — characteristic in his place, aloof and independent from the puny profligacy in his train, but far from idle and inactive, — turning a malignant eye on all mischief that awaits him ; the multiplied apparatus of temporizing expedients and intimidating instruments...
Page 272 - Rouse all the marquis within me ! exclaims the earl, and the peerage never turned forth a more undaunted champion in its cause than I shall prove. Stain my green riband blue, cries out the illustrious knight, and the fountain of honour will have a fast and faithful servant...
Page 23 - ... 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 268 - Do I demand of you, wealthy citizens, to lend your hoards to government without interest ? On the contrary, when I shall come to propose a loan, there is not a man of you to whom I shall not hold out at least a job in every part of the subscription, and an usurious profit upon every pound you devote to the necessities of your country.
Page 22 - He either tyrannized or deceived ; and was by turns a Dionysius and a Scapin. As well might the writhing obliquity of the serpent be compared to the swift directness of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity.
Page 51 - FILIAL PIETY ! It is the primal bond of society — it is that instinctive principle, which, panting for its proper good, soothes...
Page 22 - There was indeed another species of greatness, which displayed itself in boldly conceiving a bad measure, and undauntedly pursuing it to its accomplishment.