Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... thought that liberty might be established every where , by exciting those for whom government is administered against those who admi- nister it , and by proving to the people the facility and advantages of such insurrections . " This ...
... thought that liberty might be established every where , by exciting those for whom government is administered against those who admi- nister it , and by proving to the people the facility and advantages of such insurrections . " This ...
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... thought of carrying it ; how grievous it is , to see that revolution falling back , while every thing was contending in its favour ! Shall then all the bene- fit of our experience be lost to the general cause of liberty , to other ...
... thought of carrying it ; how grievous it is , to see that revolution falling back , while every thing was contending in its favour ! Shall then all the bene- fit of our experience be lost to the general cause of liberty , to other ...
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... thought fit , as a test to give them the right of voting ? " " What could the disarmed Belgians object to all this , surrounded as they were by seventy thousand men ? They had only to hold their tongues , and to bow down their heads ...
... thought fit , as a test to give them the right of voting ? " " What could the disarmed Belgians object to all this , surrounded as they were by seventy thousand men ? They had only to hold their tongues , and to bow down their heads ...
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... thought it our duty to enable his majesty to augment his forces pre- vious to the declaration of war . The aggression of France , which was the immedi- ate cause of the war , forms another material branch of the argument . It was ...
... thought it our duty to enable his majesty to augment his forces pre- vious to the declaration of war . The aggression of France , which was the immedi- ate cause of the war , forms another material branch of the argument . It was ...
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... thought of the conduct of our ministers , if they had suffered the export of corn to that country , and thereby had contributed to accelerate the equipment of those formidable fleets which the minister of marine had engaged to provide ...
... thought of the conduct of our ministers , if they had suffered the export of corn to that country , and thereby had contributed to accelerate the equipment of those formidable fleets which the minister of marine had engaged to provide ...
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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...