Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... right honourable gentleman , * last night , I consider it my duty to trouble you somewhat at length on this important question . But before I enter into the consideration of it , I will explain why I did not obey a call made , and ...
... right honourable gentleman , * last night , I consider it my duty to trouble you somewhat at length on this important question . But before I enter into the consideration of it , I will explain why I did not obey a call made , and ...
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... right honourable gentleman is truly desirous of meeting the charges against him , and he has confidence in his ability to vindicate his conduct , why not pursue the course which would be manly and open ? Why not go into a committee , as ...
... right honourable gentleman is truly desirous of meeting the charges against him , and he has confidence in his ability to vindicate his conduct , why not pursue the course which would be manly and open ? Why not go into a committee , as ...
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... right honourable gentleman in opinion , I felt for his situa- tion . There was in this excuse some shadow of reason by which it might be possible to defend him , when the whole of his conduct came to be investi- gated . I thought it ...
... right honourable gentleman in opinion , I felt for his situa- tion . There was in this excuse some shadow of reason by which it might be possible to defend him , when the whole of his conduct came to be investi- gated . I thought it ...
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... gentlemen on the other side , " unless the pa- pers now before you show there is ground for accusa- tion , and unless you agree to accuse , it is not safe or proper to grant you more . " But is this a defence for the right honourable ...
... gentlemen on the other side , " unless the pa- pers now before you show there is ground for accusa- tion , and unless you agree to accuse , it is not safe or proper to grant you more . " But is this a defence for the right honourable ...
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... right ho- nourable gentleman thinks it honourable to pursue ! I cheerfully yield to him the ground he chooses to occupy , and I will proceed , in obedience to the call personally addressed to me , frankly to state the reasons for the ...
... right ho- nourable gentleman thinks it honourable to pursue ! I cheerfully yield to him the ground he chooses to occupy , and I will proceed , in obedience to the call personally addressed to me , frankly to state the reasons for the ...
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Seite 429 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government; it is the liberty, Lords and Commons...
Seite 429 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Seite 451 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Seite 389 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Seite 466 - And all the rule, one empire ; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable ; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest : then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
Seite 452 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
Seite 390 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel.
Seite 466 - This having learned, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all the ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature's works, Or works of God in heaven, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world...