Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated Orators of America, Ireland, and England, Band 3E.C. & J. Biddle, 1845 |
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... thousand pounds a year , three - score years ago , are at three thousand at present . Those estates sold then from fifteen to eighteen years ' purchase ; the same may now be sold for thirty . You owe this to America . This is the price ...
... thousand pounds a year , three - score years ago , are at three thousand at present . Those estates sold then from fifteen to eighteen years ' purchase ; the same may now be sold for thirty . You owe this to America . This is the price ...
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... thousand inhabitants . But his majesty is advised , that the union in America cannot last . Ministers have more eyes than I , and should have more ears ; but with all the information I have been able to procure , I can pronounce it a ...
... thousand inhabitants . But his majesty is advised , that the union in America cannot last . Ministers have more eyes than I , and should have more ears ; but with all the information I have been able to procure , I can pronounce it a ...
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... thousand ; oppress not three millions , for the fault of forty or fifty individuals . Such severity of injustice must for ever render incurable the wounds you have already given your colonies ; you irritate them to unappeasable rancor ...
... thousand ; oppress not three millions , for the fault of forty or fifty individuals . Such severity of injustice must for ever render incurable the wounds you have already given your colonies ; you irritate them to unappeasable rancor ...
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... thousand men at home ! The idea is too ridiculous to take up a moment of your lordships ' time . Nor can such a national and principled union be resisted by the tricks of office , or ministerial manœuvre . Laying of papers on your table ...
... thousand men at home ! The idea is too ridiculous to take up a moment of your lordships ' time . Nor can such a national and principled union be resisted by the tricks of office , or ministerial manœuvre . Laying of papers on your table ...
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... thousand Frenchmen from French America . My lords , you cannot conquer America . What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst ; but we know , that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much . Besides ...
... thousand Frenchmen from French America . My lords , you cannot conquer America . What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst ; but we know , that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much . Besides ...
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Seite 36 - 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 481 - ... 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. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 351 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Seite 481 - Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England? 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...
Seite 480 - 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.
Seite 32 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Seite 92 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty; are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution? Are we to give them our weakness for their strength; our opprobrium for their glory; and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom?
Seite 36 - You cannot, my lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much.
Seite 86 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
Seite 351 - ... it argues in what good plight and constitution the body is ; so when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs, and wax young again, entering the glorious ways of truth and...