Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... house to a vigorous prosecution of the war till the objects of it were attained . * Lord Mornington , now Marquis of Wellesley , late go , vernour general of Bengal . VOL . IV . B As an amendment to the address , Mr. Fox moved.
... house to a vigorous prosecution of the war till the objects of it were attained . * Lord Mornington , now Marquis of Wellesley , late go , vernour general of Bengal . VOL . IV . B As an amendment to the address , Mr. Fox moved.
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... objects for which we had to contend . " Impressions conceiv- ed after such deliberate examination , assurances so solemnly pledged in the face of the nation , and of all Europe , will not be abandoned by the wisdom and firmness of this ...
... objects for which we had to contend . " Impressions conceiv- ed after such deliberate examination , assurances so solemnly pledged in the face of the nation , and of all Europe , will not be abandoned by the wisdom and firmness of this ...
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... object on account of its absurdity or impolicy , or of its tendency to excite uneasiness in foreign cabinets . You may perceive that the authors of the decree of the 19th of November , and the enlightened republi- cans of whom Brissot ...
... object on account of its absurdity or impolicy , or of its tendency to excite uneasiness in foreign cabinets . You may perceive that the authors of the decree of the 19th of November , and the enlightened republi- cans of whom Brissot ...
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... object both of their fears and desires , that a parliamentary reform would be proposed in this house , and that from thence the passage to the complete establishment of a republick would be short and easy . " Such are the means so ...
... object both of their fears and desires , that a parliamentary reform would be proposed in this house , and that from thence the passage to the complete establishment of a republick would be short and easy . " Such are the means so ...
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... object of deliberate , systematick and uniform attack . There is another feature of this project which I cannot omit , because it so nearly con- cerns the security of some of the most valuable pos- sessions of the British empire . We ...
... object of deliberate , systematick and uniform attack . There is another feature of this project which I cannot omit , because it so nearly con- cerns the security of some of the most valuable pos- sessions of the British empire . We ...
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Page 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...
Page 429 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 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...
Page 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.
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Page 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.
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