Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... course , but unfortunately , fragments only of his speech are preserved . " We are called on , he said , to witness in the present age the political and moral phenomenon of a mighty and civilized people formed into an artificial horde ...
... course , but unfortunately , fragments only of his speech are preserved . " We are called on , he said , to witness in the present age the political and moral phenomenon of a mighty and civilized people formed into an artificial horde ...
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... course of subsequent events , the success of the war is become desperate and impracticable ; or , that from some im- provement in the system and principles which prevail in France , and in the views and characters of those who now ...
... course of subsequent events , the success of the war is become desperate and impracticable ; or , that from some im- provement in the system and principles which prevail in France , and in the views and characters of those who now ...
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... course of this debate ; and I must conclude , that these proofs , added to the arguments employed last year , have confirmed the original justice and necessity of the war upon the most solid and secure foundation . If then the original ...
... course of this debate ; and I must conclude , that these proofs , added to the arguments employed last year , have confirmed the original justice and necessity of the war upon the most solid and secure foundation . If then the original ...
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... course of subsequent events , it must be both our right and our duty ( a right which a high - spirited people will not easily concede , and a duty from the discharge of which they will not shrink ) to prosecute the war without remission ...
... course of subsequent events , it must be both our right and our duty ( a right which a high - spirited people will not easily concede , and a duty from the discharge of which they will not shrink ) to prosecute the war without remission ...
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... course of the summer , they have as yet been contending with us for our conquests , and not for any advantages which they did not possess before the commencement of the war . While our allies retain Mentz , it must be ad- mitted , that ...
... course of the summer , they have as yet been contending with us for our conquests , and not for any advantages which they did not possess before the commencement of the war . While our allies retain Mentz , it must be ad- mitted , that ...
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Page 429 - 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 429 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 451 - 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 389 - 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 practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Page 466 - 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 loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
Page 452 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
Page 390 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel.
Page 466 - 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...