Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... spirit , organizing rapine and destruc- tion into a system , and perverting to their detestable purposes , all the talents and ingenuity which they derived from their advanced stage of civilization , all the refinements of art , and the ...
... spirit , organizing rapine and destruc- tion into a system , and perverting to their detestable purposes , all the talents and ingenuity which they derived from their advanced stage of civilization , all the refinements of art , and the ...
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... spirit of liberty among them . This system was pursued at first . Excellent pamphlets from the pen of Condor- cet had prepared all people for liberty . The under- standings of the Belgians ought to have been en- lightened by good ...
... spirit of liberty among them . This system was pursued at first . Excellent pamphlets from the pen of Condor- cet had prepared all people for liberty . The under- standings of the Belgians ought to have been en- lightened by good ...
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... spirit of the French consti- tution , of the American constitution , and of the rights of man , which are forever engraven on his heart , and from which he learns , that an appeal must lie from the president , who is a mere ministerial ...
... spirit of the French consti- tution , of the American constitution , and of the rights of man , which are forever engraven on his heart , and from which he learns , that an appeal must lie from the president , who is a mere ministerial ...
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... spirit ; he es- tablished jacobin clubs , and held primary assemblies for the propagation of the true faith of liberty among the janizaries at the Porte . Thus from Mr. Jefferson to the Reis Effendi ; from the president of the United ...
... spirit ; he es- tablished jacobin clubs , and held primary assemblies for the propagation of the true faith of liberty among the janizaries at the Porte . Thus from Mr. Jefferson to the Reis Effendi ; from the president of the United ...
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... spirit of the decree of the 19th of November , denied by the executive council , has been avowed , acknow- ledged , and defended by Brissot , the champion of all their principles , and the author of all their plans ; that his exposition ...
... spirit of the decree of the 19th of November , denied by the executive council , has been avowed , acknow- ledged , and defended by Brissot , the champion of all their principles , and the author of all their plans ; that his exposition ...
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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...