Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries; with Sketches of Their Lives, an Estimate of Their Genius, & Notes, Critical & Explanatory |
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... noble ancestors , who have put the keys of life and death , so far as concerns you and your posterity , into your own hands . None but your own selves , my Lords , know the rate of your noble blood none but yourselves must hold the ...
... noble ancestors , who have put the keys of life and death , so far as concerns you and your posterity , into your own hands . None but your own selves , my Lords , know the rate of your noble blood none but yourselves must hold the ...
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... noble intentions shall be drawn against him for the attainting of him , his children and posterity - I know not ( un- der favor I speak it ) any wise or noble person of fortune who will , upon such perilous and unsafe terms , adventure ...
... noble intentions shall be drawn against him for the attainting of him , his children and posterity - I know not ( un- der favor I speak it ) any wise or noble person of fortune who will , upon such perilous and unsafe terms , adventure ...
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... noble intentions shall be drawn against him for the attainting of him , his children and posterity - I know not ( un- der favor I speak it ) any wise or noble person of fortune who will , upon such perilous and unsafe terms , adventure ...
... noble intentions shall be drawn against him for the attainting of him , his children and posterity - I know not ( un- der favor I speak it ) any wise or noble person of fortune who will , upon such perilous and unsafe terms , adventure ...
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... noble and honorable pecrage of Scotland , whose valiant predecessors led ar- mies against their enemies upon their own prop- er charges and expense , now devested of their followers and vassalages ; and put upon such an equal foot with ...
... noble and honorable pecrage of Scotland , whose valiant predecessors led ar- mies against their enemies upon their own prop- er charges and expense , now devested of their followers and vassalages ; and put upon such an equal foot with ...
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... noble predecessors ' valor and constancy rouse up our drooping spirits ? Are our noble predecessors ' souls got so far into the English cabbage stalk and cauliflowers , that we should show the least inclination that way ? Are our eyes ...
... noble predecessors ' valor and constancy rouse up our drooping spirits ? Are our noble predecessors ' souls got so far into the English cabbage stalk and cauliflowers , that we should show the least inclination that way ? Are our eyes ...
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Page 370 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 375 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection . As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born.
Page 287 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Page 133 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Page 375 - Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures each in their appointed place.
Page 274 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 372 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Page 274 - ... them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward.
Page 267 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented, from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Page 271 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.