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... eloquent sorrow for him when dead , remain on record among the brightest instances of his affec tionate and noble nature . Most biographers of Burke have regarded this affair as a piece of pure folly on the part of the Duke of Newcastle ...
... eloquent sorrow for him when dead , remain on record among the brightest instances of his affec tionate and noble nature . Most biographers of Burke have regarded this affair as a piece of pure folly on the part of the Duke of Newcastle ...
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... ELOQUENCE TOUCHING LORD CHATHAM AND CHARLES TOWNSHEND - DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT BURKE AGAIN ELECTED FOR WENDOVER - PAMPHLET ON THE STATE OF THE NATION - LORD CHATHAM'S RESIGNATION - WILKES - JUNIUS - LIBEL BILL -. THE OLD PARLIAMENT ...
... ELOQUENCE TOUCHING LORD CHATHAM AND CHARLES TOWNSHEND - DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT BURKE AGAIN ELECTED FOR WENDOVER - PAMPHLET ON THE STATE OF THE NATION - LORD CHATHAM'S RESIGNATION - WILKES - JUNIUS - LIBEL BILL -. THE OLD PARLIAMENT ...
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... eloquence of Edmund Burke came upon the ear of Parliament , it was indeed a time , to use his own words , " for a man to act in . " The political world then bore a gloomy and frowning aspect . It was the year 1765. George III . had been ...
... eloquence of Edmund Burke came upon the ear of Parliament , it was indeed a time , to use his own words , " for a man to act in . " The political world then bore a gloomy and frowning aspect . It was the year 1765. George III . had been ...
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... eloquence . The cider - tax was repealed , by which the jurisdiction of the ex- cise was contracted , and great satisfaction afforded . Resolutions were passed against general warrants and the seizure of private papers . Several ...
... eloquence . The cider - tax was repealed , by which the jurisdiction of the ex- cise was contracted , and great satisfaction afforded . Resolutions were passed against general warrants and the seizure of private papers . Several ...
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... eloquence , his splendid qualities , his eminent services , the vast space he fills in the eye of mankind , and , more than all the rest , his fall from power , which , like death , canonises and sancti- fies a great character , will ...
... eloquence , his splendid qualities , his eminent services , the vast space he fills in the eye of mankind , and , more than all the rest , his fall from power , which , like death , canonises and sancti- fies a great character , will ...
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Page 83 - Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 88 - Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England ? Do you imagine then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue ? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply, which gives you your army ? or that it is the mutiny bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline ? No ! surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Page 94 - He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Page 311 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 83 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page 177 - He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 252 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Page 84 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion ? in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ? and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Page 87 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 280 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.