The orator, a treasury of English eloquence1864 |
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... throne of that nation , which ( by the happy issue of moderate and healing councils ) was to be made Great Britain , he should see his son , Lord Chancellor of England , turn back the current of hereditary dignity to its fountain , and ...
... throne of that nation , which ( by the happy issue of moderate and healing councils ) was to be made Great Britain , he should see his son , Lord Chancellor of England , turn back the current of hereditary dignity to its fountain , and ...
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... throne , And shut the gates of mercy on mankind . " I have a far other and far brighter vision before my gaze . It may be but a vision , but I will cherish it . I see one vast Confederation stretch- ing from the frozen North in unbroken ...
... throne , And shut the gates of mercy on mankind . " I have a far other and far brighter vision before my gaze . It may be but a vision , but I will cherish it . I see one vast Confederation stretch- ing from the frozen North in unbroken ...
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... Throne ! You have said , my lords , you have willed the Church and the King have willed - that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service . She has , instead of that solemnity , the heartfelt prayers of the people . She wants no ...
... Throne ! You have said , my lords , you have willed the Church and the King have willed - that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service . She has , instead of that solemnity , the heartfelt prayers of the people . She wants no ...
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... throne -even then , I say , when all seemed lost , the unconquerable spirit of English liberty survived in the hearts of English jurors . That spirit is , I trust in God , not extinct ; and if any modern tyrant were , in the drunkenness ...
... throne -even then , I say , when all seemed lost , the unconquerable spirit of English liberty survived in the hearts of English jurors . That spirit is , I trust in God , not extinct ; and if any modern tyrant were , in the drunkenness ...
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... throne of this country . Let us go back - it is no long period in the history of a nation - to an epoch not very many years before the passing of the Reform Bill , and consider what was the state of things at a time when many of us were ...
... throne of this country . Let us go back - it is no long period in the history of a nation - to an epoch not very many years before the passing of the Reform Bill , and consider what was the state of things at a time when many of us were ...
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Էջ 6 - But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments?
Էջ 73 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Էջ 24 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Էջ 6 - ... Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Էջ 20 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Էջ 25 - ... an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means, — to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm — the suffering — the torment — the destruction — which he may bring upon any other.
Էջ 1 - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end — to which indeed all history points — the realisation of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities.
Էջ 29 - Our inclinations are not in our power, nor should either of us be held answerable to the other because nature has not made us suitable to each other. Tranquil and comfortable society is, however, in our power ; let our intercourse, therefore, be restricted to that...
Էջ 84 - My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the...
Էջ 62 - FILIAL PIETY !" It is the primal bond of society — it is that instinctive principle, which, panting for its proper good, soothes, unbidden, each sense and sensibility of man ! — it now quivers on every lip ! — it now beams from every eye ! — it is an emanation of that gratitude...