The Percy anecdotes, by Sholto and Reuben Percy. (Eloquence). |
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... liberty to speak in defence of their client . Martial alludes to this practice in the following epigram : 66 Septem clepsydras magnâ tibi voce petenti Arbiter invitus , Cæciliane , dedit ; At tu multa diu dicis , vitreisque tepentem ...
... liberty to speak in defence of their client . Martial alludes to this practice in the following epigram : 66 Septem clepsydras magnâ tibi voce petenti Arbiter invitus , Cæciliane , dedit ; At tu multa diu dicis , vitreisque tepentem ...
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... liberty . Every house in Virginia vied with each other which should entertain him the best , or shew him the most respect ; and he returned to his native country , loaded with presents and honours . TECUMSEH . The Indian warrior ...
... liberty . Every house in Virginia vied with each other which should entertain him the best , or shew him the most respect ; and he returned to his native country , loaded with presents and honours . TECUMSEH . The Indian warrior ...
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... the empire , not only received the captive Britons with great marks of kindness and compassion , but confirmed to them the enjoyment of their liberty . LORD BELHAVEN . The most able and strenuous opponent in 54 PERCY ANECDOTES .
... the empire , not only received the captive Britons with great marks of kindness and compassion , but confirmed to them the enjoyment of their liberty . LORD BELHAVEN . The most able and strenuous opponent in 54 PERCY ANECDOTES .
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... liberty which has been handed down to us by our ancestors ; and which , I trust , we shall maintain to the latest posterity ; and that can only be done by unanimity and obedi- ence . The ship's company , and others , who have dis ...
... liberty which has been handed down to us by our ancestors ; and which , I trust , we shall maintain to the latest posterity ; and that can only be done by unanimity and obedi- ence . The ship's company , and others , who have dis ...
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... liberty , like every other man , to use my own language ; and though I may perhaps have some ambition , yet , to please this gentle- man , I shall not lay myself under any restraint , nor very solicitously copy his diction or his mien ...
... liberty , like every other man , to use my own language ; and though I may perhaps have some ambition , yet , to please this gentle- man , I shall not lay myself under any restraint , nor very solicitously copy his diction or his mien ...
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Page 122 - ... to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Page 41 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 146 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 27 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm...
Page 62 - Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; — who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.
Page 27 - I myself will take up arms; I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already...
Page 101 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 167 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Page 62 - Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, sir, assume the province of determining; but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided.
Page 40 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First, his Cromwell — and George the Third'* — (' Treason,' cried the speaker — ' Treason, treason !' echoed from every part of the house.