Works of Henry Lord Brougham: SpeechesA. and C. Black, 1873 |
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Page 305 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book— left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 298 - I thank you for the patience with which you have listened to me, and on which I have unwillingly trespassed so long.
Page 129 - ... for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Page 333 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 152 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 304 - You have vanquished him in the field ; strive now to rival him in the sacred arts of peace ! Outstrip him as a lawgiver, whom in arms you overcame ! The lustre of the Regency will be eclipsed by the more solid and enduring splendour of the reign. The praise...
Page 277 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 61 - That an humble address be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to...
Page 305 - ... the emoluments superfluous to one content with the rest of his industrious fellow-citizens, that his own hands minister to his wants...
Page 305 - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he will be graciously pleased to issue a commission for inquiring into the defects occasioned by time or otherwise, in the laws of this realm, and into the measures necessary for removing the same.