Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... period of the contest , carefully and anxiously to revise the grounds on which it was adopt- ed . In the present moment , however superfluous it may appear to search for any additional justification of our conduct , or to endeavour to ...
... period of the contest , carefully and anxiously to revise the grounds on which it was adopt- ed . In the present moment , however superfluous it may appear to search for any additional justification of our conduct , or to endeavour to ...
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... periods by al- most every person who has acted a leading part in the government of France since the massacre of the 10th of August . But the correspondence between Du- mourier and Pache the minister of war , which has been published ...
... periods by al- most every person who has acted a leading part in the government of France since the massacre of the 10th of August . But the correspondence between Du- mourier and Pache the minister of war , which has been published ...
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... period , and were proposed to be carried to a much greater extent than could have been supposed by any person in this country , in the month of November . He tells us , " that as early as the month of October , the possibility of war ...
... period , and were proposed to be carried to a much greater extent than could have been supposed by any person in this country , in the month of November . He tells us , " that as early as the month of October , the possibility of war ...
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... periods of war . Prophecies of a much more gloomy complexion were uttered in this house ; we were told ( nearly in the language of one of the extracts which I have read from Brissot ) that the sea would be immediately covered with the ...
... periods of war . Prophecies of a much more gloomy complexion were uttered in this house ; we were told ( nearly in the language of one of the extracts which I have read from Brissot ) that the sea would be immediately covered with the ...
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... period , and under cir- cumstances of greater advantage . It is unnecessary to state , that the seasonable assistance afforded by this country to the Dutch , was alone the circumstance which encouraged and enabled them to make so vigo ...
... period , and under cir- cumstances of greater advantage . It is unnecessary to state , that the seasonable assistance afforded by this country to the Dutch , was alone the circumstance which encouraged and enabled them to make so vigo ...
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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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
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.
Page 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...