Orators of Great Britain and IrelandMayo Williamson Hazeltine P.F. Collier, 1903 |
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... known as " Diamond Pitt " from the fact of his having sold a diamond of extraor- dinary size to the Regent Orleans for $ 680,000 . William Pitt was educated at Eton , whence he passed to Trinity College , Oxford . It is an interesting ...
... known as " Diamond Pitt " from the fact of his having sold a diamond of extraor- dinary size to the Regent Orleans for $ 680,000 . William Pitt was educated at Eton , whence he passed to Trinity College , Oxford . It is an interesting ...
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... known : no man thinks more highly of them than I do . I love and honor the English troops . I know their virtues and their valor . I know they can achieve anything except impossibilities ; and I know that the conquest of English America ...
... known : no man thinks more highly of them than I do . I love and honor the English troops . I know their virtues and their valor . I know they can achieve anything except impossibilities ; and I know that the conquest of English America ...
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... known to England by incur- sion and invasion . were none . Sir , during that state of things , Parliament was not idle . They attempted to subdue the fierce spirit of the Welsh by all sorts of rigorous laws . They prohibited by statute ...
... known to England by incur- sion and invasion . were none . Sir , during that state of things , Parliament was not idle . They attempted to subdue the fierce spirit of the Welsh by all sorts of rigorous laws . They prohibited by statute ...
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... known to the Constitution of this country has , upon its revival , some appearance of novelty . At this time , when all Europe is in a state of , perhaps , conta gious fermentation - when antiquity has lost all its rever- ence and all ...
... known to the Constitution of this country has , upon its revival , some appearance of novelty . At this time , when all Europe is in a state of , perhaps , conta gious fermentation - when antiquity has lost all its rever- ence and all ...
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... known that no rule formed upon municipal maxims ( if any such rule exists ) will pre- vent the course of that imperial justice which you owe to the people that call to you from all parts of a great dis- jointed world . For , situated as ...
... known that no rule formed upon municipal maxims ( if any such rule exists ) will pre- vent the course of that imperial justice which you owe to the people that call to you from all parts of a great dis- jointed world . For , situated as ...
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Էջ 426 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Էջ 94 - 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.
Էջ 36 - Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole : and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Էջ 40 - Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Էջ 42 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Էջ 95 - Do you imagine, then, that it is the Land Tax Act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the Committee of Supply which gives you your army? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No! surely no! It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Էջ 96 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and me* chanical politicians, who have no place among us; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Էջ 35 - ... object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover, but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than whole America. I do not choose to consume its strength along with our own ; because in all parts it is the British strength that I consume.
Էջ 34 - Terror is not always the effect of force; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource; for, conciliation failing, force remains; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence.
Էջ 396 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.