Essays from Select British EloquenceSouthern Illinois University Press, 1963 - 359 pages |
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Page 70
... means , to be repaid only in the event of his succeed- ing in after life . During his residence at Oxford , he gave himself to study with that fervor and diligence for which he was always dis- tinguished , quickened by a sense of the ...
... means , to be repaid only in the event of his succeed- ing in after life . During his residence at Oxford , he gave himself to study with that fervor and diligence for which he was always dis- tinguished , quickened by a sense of the ...
Page 106
... means of fighting it . We did fight , that day , and conquer . . . . In that crisis , the whole trading interest of this empire , crammed in your lobbies with a trembling and anxious expectation , waited almost to a winter's return of ...
... means of fighting it . We did fight , that day , and conquer . . . . In that crisis , the whole trading interest of this empire , crammed in your lobbies with a trembling and anxious expectation , waited almost to a winter's return of ...
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... means of doing away the evils of the old ré- gime . But , even if this were so , who , at that early period , was to discover such a fact ? And who is authorized , at the present day , to speak slightingly of Mr. Burke as rash and ...
... means of doing away the evils of the old ré- gime . But , even if this were so , who , at that early period , was to discover such a fact ? And who is authorized , at the present day , to speak slightingly of Mr. Burke as rash and ...
Contents
SIR JOHN ELIOT | 3 |
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE | 19 |
LORD MANSFIELD | 69 |
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Essays from Select British Eloquence: Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address Chauncey Allen Goodrich No preview available - 2012 |
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