The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces; Together with Rules; Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of EloquenceWilliam S. Parker, 1821 - 300 Seiten |
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... justice , and screens the guilty from the punishment due to their crimes . Is there any thing which is not obnoxious to abufe ? Even the benign religion of the Prince of Peace has been made the un- willing inftrument of the greateft ...
... justice , and screens the guilty from the punishment due to their crimes . Is there any thing which is not obnoxious to abufe ? Even the benign religion of the Prince of Peace has been made the un- willing inftrument of the greateft ...
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... justice . If you increase your price of rent , increase my pay . Don P. I meddle not with your affairs . Look out for your pay among your employers . I am but one , among many , and promise you that I fhall not be fore- moft to enhance ...
... justice . If you increase your price of rent , increase my pay . Don P. I meddle not with your affairs . Look out for your pay among your employers . I am but one , among many , and promise you that I fhall not be fore- moft to enhance ...
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... JUSTICE , BY REASON OF PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT , 1770 . In MY LORDS , HAVE waited with patience to hear what argu- ments might be urged against the bill ; but I have waited in vain ; the truth is , there is no argument that can weigh ...
... JUSTICE , BY REASON OF PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT , 1770 . In MY LORDS , HAVE waited with patience to hear what argu- ments might be urged against the bill ; but I have waited in vain ; the truth is , there is no argument that can weigh ...
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... justice then , or where is the law that protects a mem- ber of parliament more than any other man , from the punishment due to his crimes ? The laws of this coun- try allow of no place , nor any employment , to be a fanctuary for crimes ...
... justice then , or where is the law that protects a mem- ber of parliament more than any other man , from the punishment due to his crimes ? The laws of this coun- try allow of no place , nor any employment , to be a fanctuary for crimes ...
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... justice to be affured , that this refolution has not been taken , without a strict regard to all the confiderations apper- taining to the relation , which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that , in withdrawing the tender of ...
... justice to be affured , that this refolution has not been taken , without a strict regard to all the confiderations apper- taining to the relation , which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that , in withdrawing the tender of ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affure againſt Amandar America becauſe beſt brother buſineſs Catiline caufe cauſe Cefar Cicero dear defire earth eloquence exprefs eyes facred fafe faid fame father fecure feems fent fentiments fervants ferve fervice fhall fhould fide fince firſt fkies flave fleep fome foon foul fpeak fpirit Francifco friends ftand ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fupport fure fword Hamet hands happineſs heart heaven himſelf honeft honor Houfe Houſe intereft itſelf JOCHEBED juft juftice laft laſt learned lefs liberty live loft lords mafter meaſures mind minifter moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never occafion Oran orator ourſelves Ozro paffions pafs peace perfons pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffefs prefent Purchafer reafon refpect reprefent rife ſhall ſpeak ſtand ſtate tell thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion Trufty underſtand uſe voice whofe worfe yourſelf
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 261 - France, my lords, has insulted you ; she has encouraged and sustained America; and whether America be wrong or right, the dignity of this country ought to spurn at the officious insult of French interference. The ministers and...
Seite 149 - Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man, who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations...
Seite 149 - THOUGH in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am, nevertheless, too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils, to which they may tend.
Seite 149 - ... guarantee of the plans by which they were effected. Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and...
Seite 60 - I know the valour of your troops. I know the skill of your officers. There is not a company of foot that has served in America out of which you may not pick a man of sufficient knowledge and experience to make a governor of a colony there.
Seite 34 - ... day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision...
Seite 147 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Seite 263 - ... impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Seite 260 - This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment ! It is not a time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot now avail; cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Seite 96 - Experience might inform them that many, who have been saluted with the huzzas of a crowd one day, have received their execrations the next ; and many, who by the popularity of their times, have been held up as spotless patriots, have, nevertheless, appeared upon the historian's page, when truth has triumphed over delusion, the assassins of liberty.