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 ...Harper & brothers, 1853 - 947 pages |
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... Trade , ib .; war with France , 571 ; eloquent speech when his proposals of peace were rejected by the French , 575 ; speech of great compass and power when he refused to treat with Bonaparte , 576 ; resigns at the end of seventeen ...
... Trade , ib .; war with France , 571 ; eloquent speech when his proposals of peace were rejected by the French , 575 ; speech of great compass and power when he refused to treat with Bonaparte , 576 ; resigns at the end of seventeen ...
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... trade through the Sound into the Baltic , which was of great value , was thus on the point of being entirely cut off by the es- tablishment of a hostile power on the ruins of Den- mark . Yet England had done nothing to sustain her ally ...
... trade through the Sound into the Baltic , which was of great value , was thus on the point of being entirely cut off by the es- tablishment of a hostile power on the ruins of Den- mark . Yet England had done nothing to sustain her ally ...
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... trade , having been captured within a few months , and their crews sold for slaves . humbly crave your pardon , and so submit my- self to the censure of the House . The King , finding , after the delivery of this speech , that he could ...
... trade , having been captured within a few months , and their crews sold for slaves . humbly crave your pardon , and so submit my- self to the censure of the House . The King , finding , after the delivery of this speech , that he could ...
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... trade which were there enjoyed . It was now apparent that Scotland could never flourish until she was permitted to share in those commercial advantages , from which she was debarred as a distinct country , by the Navigation Act of ...
... trade which were there enjoyed . It was now apparent that Scotland could never flourish until she was permitted to share in those commercial advantages , from which she was debarred as a distinct country , by the Navigation Act of ...
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... trade , and be subject to the same excise and duties ; that Scotland should receive £ 398,000 as a compen- sation or " equivalent " for the share of liability she assumed in the English debt of £ 20,000,000 ; and that the churches of ...
... trade , and be subject to the same excise and duties ; that Scotland should receive £ 398,000 as a compen- sation or " equivalent " for the share of liability she assumed in the English debt of £ 20,000,000 ; and that the churches of ...
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Page 368 - 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 348 - Then ensued a scene of woe the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc.
Page 373 - 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 387 - Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 292 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 371 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 293 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 65 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it— the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his force dares not cross* the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Page 293 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Page 277 - Then, sir, from these six capital sources of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth ; a spirit that, unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not...