Essays from Select British EloquenceSouthern Illinois University Press, 1963 - 359 pages |
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Page 60
... sense of justice , to make him the champion of America . Feeble and decrepit as he was , he forgot his age and sufferings . He stood forth , in presence of the whole empire , to arraign , as a breach of the Constitution , every attempt ...
... sense of justice , to make him the champion of America . Feeble and decrepit as he was , he forgot his age and sufferings . He stood forth , in presence of the whole empire , to arraign , as a breach of the Constitution , every attempt ...
Page 272
... sense of new obliga- tions and higher duties . The regiment was ordered to Mi- norca , where he spent two years in almost uninterrupted leisure . In the society of his wife , he now entered on the sys- tematic study of English ...
... sense of new obliga- tions and higher duties . The regiment was ordered to Mi- norca , where he spent two years in almost uninterrupted leisure . In the society of his wife , he now entered on the sys- tematic study of English ...
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... sense of the term ; i.e. , to pronounce the speech of another when committed to memory . But in England it is very rarely used in this sense , and the context seems to show that such could not have been the meaning of Coleridge . 2. Mr ...
... sense of the term ; i.e. , to pronounce the speech of another when committed to memory . But in England it is very rarely used in this sense , and the context seems to show that such could not have been the meaning of Coleridge . 2. Mr ...
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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