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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the ... - Page 308
1808
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 16

1810 - 538 pages
...sanctioned by its majesty and wisdom, when it advances in its path : — subject it to the critic, and yon tame it into dulness. — Mighty rivers break down...banks in the winter, sweeping away to death the flocks wliich are fattened on the soil that they fertilise in the summer : the few may be saved by embankments...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...sanctioned by its majesty and wisdom, when it advances in its path. Subject it to the critick, and you tame it into dulness. Mighty rivers break down...drowning, but the flock must perish for hunger. Tempests occasionly shake our dwellings, and dissipate our commerce ; but they scourge before them the lazy...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...sanctioned by its majesty and wisdom, when it advances in its path. Subject it to the critick, and you tame it into dulness. Mighty rivers break down...drowning, but the flock must perish for hunger. Tempests occasionly shake our dwellings, and dissipate our commerce ; but they scourge before them the lazy...
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The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...sanctioned by its majesty and wisdom, when it advances in its path ;— subject it to the critic, and you tame it into dulness. —Mighty rivers break down...embankments from drowning, but the flock must perish for hunger.—Tempests occasionally shake our dwellings and dissipate our commerce ; but they scourge before...
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The Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine (now Lord Erskine): When at ..., Volume 2

James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...sanctioned by its majesty and wisdom, when it advances in its path;— subject it to the critic, and you tame it into dulness. —Mighty rivers break down...embankments from drowning, but the flock must perish for hunger.—Tempests occasionally shake our dwellings and dissipate our commerce; but they scourge before...
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The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when ..., Volume 1

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...sanctioned by its majesty and wisdom, when it advances in its path;—subject it to the critic, and you tame it into dulness. Mighty rivers break down...death the flocks which are fattened on the soil that thev fertilize in the summer : the few may be saved by embankments from drowning, but the flock must...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 22

Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...sanctioned by its majesty and wisdom when it advances in its path; — subject it to' the critic, and you tame it into dulness. — Mighty rivers break...may be saved by embankments from drowning, but the tlock must perish for hunger. — Tempests occasionally shake our dwellings and dissipate our commerce...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 22

Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...intemwTien it advances in its path¿ — subject it to the critic, and you tame it into dulnes?. — Mighty rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping away to death the nocks which are fattened on the soil that they fertilize in the summer : the few may be saved by embankments...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitations: Founded on the Enquiry in the ...

John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...are sanctioned by its majesty and wisdom, when it advances in its path ; subject it to the critic and you tame it into dulness. Mighty rivers break down...to death the flocks which are fattened on the soil they fertilize in the summer: the few may be saved by embankments from drowning, tout the flock must...
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Eminent British Lawyers

Henry Roscoe - Lawyers - 1830 - 554 pages
...are sanctioned by its majesty and wisdom when it advances in its path : subject it to the critic, and you tame it into dulness. Mighty rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping to death the flocks which are fattened on the soil that they fertilize in the summer : the few may...
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