Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... continued in these words : " Such are the works , such are the trophies of this religion ; may it be obliterated from the face of the earth ! happiness will then return ; mankind will live like friends and brothers : from this ...
... continued in these words : " Such are the works , such are the trophies of this religion ; may it be obliterated from the face of the earth ! happiness will then return ; mankind will live like friends and brothers : from this ...
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... continued without exhausting the country of the necessaries of life . The rapid operation of every part of this system may be seen in the effect of the law of the maximum , which had not passed more than a month , when ( as Barrere ...
... continued without exhausting the country of the necessaries of life . The rapid operation of every part of this system may be seen in the effect of the law of the maximum , which had not passed more than a month , when ( as Barrere ...
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... continued , she would have had a right to fur- ther indemnification for the expense of it . But was it not worth the minister's while to try the good faith of the empress of Russia , after she had so solemnly pledged herself to all ...
... continued , she would have had a right to fur- ther indemnification for the expense of it . But was it not worth the minister's while to try the good faith of the empress of Russia , after she had so solemnly pledged herself to all ...
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... continued their armament ? Was it to say to the empress , when they had conceded every thing , " We have given you all you asked ; give us something that we may hold out to the publick , something that we may use against the minority ...
... continued their armament ? Was it to say to the empress , when they had conceded every thing , " We have given you all you asked ; give us something that we may hold out to the publick , something that we may use against the minority ...
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... M. Chauvelin was sent from hence ; be- sides this , the reduction of our peace establishment in the year 1791 , and continued to the subsequent year , is a fact from which the inference is indisputable : 282 MR . PITT'S SPEECH.
... M. Chauvelin was sent from hence ; be- sides this , the reduction of our peace establishment in the year 1791 , and continued to the subsequent year , is a fact from which the inference is indisputable : 282 MR . PITT'S SPEECH.
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Page 460 - With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens.
Page 460 - 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 loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
Page 423 - 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 423 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 445 - 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 383 - 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 practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Page 458 - Christians, I cannot help lamenting that Newton had not lived to this day, to have had his shallowness filled up with this new flood of light. But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian ! Newton...
Page 460 - 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...