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... command my territory , while I am destitute of all assistance ! ' he would not have engaged in those enterprises which are now crowned with success ; nor could he have raised himself to this pitch of greatness . No , Athenians ! he knew ...
... command my territory , while I am destitute of all assistance ! ' he would not have engaged in those enterprises which are now crowned with success ; nor could he have raised himself to this pitch of greatness . No , Athenians ! he knew ...
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... command , you are really serv- ing under Philip , you are fighting on his side . The Olynthians are a people , whose power was thought considerable . Thus were the circumstances of affairs : Philip could not confide in them ; they ...
... command , you are really serv- ing under Philip , you are fighting on his side . The Olynthians are a people , whose power was thought considerable . Thus were the circumstances of affairs : Philip could not confide in them ; they ...
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... command , with which he governs all transactions public and secret ; his entire direction of his army , as their leader , their sovereign , and their trea- surer ; and his diligence , in giving life to every part of it , by his presence ...
... command , with which he governs all transactions public and secret ; his entire direction of his army , as their leader , their sovereign , and their trea- surer ; and his diligence , in giving life to every part of it , by his presence ...
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... command the state ; while you sit down unconcerned witnesses of their suc- cess ; and , for an uninterrupted course of ease and indolence , give them up those great and glo- rious advantages , which really belong to you . Demosthenes ...
... command the state ; while you sit down unconcerned witnesses of their suc- cess ; and , for an uninterrupted course of ease and indolence , give them up those great and glo- rious advantages , which really belong to you . Demosthenes ...
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... command . Carry with you all your confederates ; if not all , at least as many as possible . Purge the city . It will take greatly from my fears , to be divided from you by a wall . You cannot pretend to stay any longer with us : I will ...
... command . Carry with you all your confederates ; if not all , at least as many as possible . Purge the city . It will take greatly from my fears , to be divided from you by a wall . You cannot pretend to stay any longer with us : I will ...
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Page 239 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Page 253 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Page 239 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands.
Page 238 - I do; I know their virtues and their valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Page 255 - For eighteen months, without intermission, this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali, and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever...
Page 135 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 134 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 241 - I again implore those holy prelates of our religion to do away these iniquities from among us. Let them perform a lustration; let them purify this House, and this country, from this sin. My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Page 202 - There is an idea in some, that the colonies are virtually represented in the house. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here? Is he represented by any knight of the shire, in any county in this kingdom ? Would to God that respectable representation was augmented to a greater number ! Or will you tell him that he is represented by any representative of a borough — a borough which, perhaps, its own representatives never saw. This is what is called the rotten part of the constitution.
Page 135 - Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him : but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition.