Essays from Select British EloquenceSouthern Illinois University Press, 1963 - 359 pages |
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... interest to the student in oratory , and all that I thought such are here inserted , including eight never before published in this country . All of Burke's speeches which he prepared for the press have also found a place , except that ...
... interest to the student in oratory , and all that I thought such are here inserted , including eight never before published in this country . All of Burke's speeches which he prepared for the press have also found a place , except that ...
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... interest to his speeches in Parliament . Lord Lyttleton , at the same time , addressed him in the follow- ing lines , which were eagerly circulated throughout the coun- try , and set him forth as already leader of the Opposition . Long ...
... interest to his speeches in Parliament . Lord Lyttleton , at the same time , addressed him in the follow- ing lines , which were eagerly circulated throughout the coun- try , and set him forth as already leader of the Opposition . Long ...
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... interest by being regularly in- vested in public stocks , would , in twenty - eight years , amount to four millions a year at the supposed interest of five per cent . , a sum which would pay off one hundred millions of three per cents ...
... interest by being regularly in- vested in public stocks , would , in twenty - eight years , amount to four millions a year at the supposed interest of five per cent . , a sum which would pay off one hundred millions of three per cents ...
Contents
SIR JOHN ELIOT | 3 |
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE | 19 |
LORD MAnsfield | 69 |
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